On an average day.....

The one thing I've learned in my brief time as a Stay At Home Dad (SAHD), is that there is no such thing as an average day. They are all so different and special.
There is a basic routine that we're falling into however. For those of you that are interested, continue reading, otherwise just look at the new photos. Lol

12:30 AM - 2:30 AM: Usually Mel wakes up and needs to be changed and fed, sometime in this period. Libby usually sleeps through the night. If it is just Mel (or just Libby) who is awake, I get up at do whatever needs to be done to get her ready to go back to sleep.

2:30 AM - 4 AM: I spend the time after the girls are back asleep to do some house stuff downstairs. The house is quiet (except for the static on the baby monitor and the TV on low, low volume. I have the sound almost off and captioning on as a rule).

I unload the dishwasher, make sure we have enough formula made up to get us to at least mid-morning, check emails, work on the blog, have something to eat. It's the one time of the day I can usually count on having "Rocky Time". (And they said that having a sleep disorder had no upside, LOL).

4 am- 5:30 AM: With a bit of luck, I get some more sleep, usually at least one of the girls need to be at least changed.

5:30 AM- 7:30 AM: Everybody gets up (whether they want to be or not). The girls get fed, changed, and put into Daytime clothes. Sue gets ready for work, I try to get showered and changed into clean clothes. We all move downstairs. Sue heads to work. Hopefully, Libby and Mel have fallen back to sleep.

7:30 AM- 9 AM Daddy and Girls Nap! (This is optional and hapens not as often as I would like).

9 AM-Noon Girls are up and active. We eat, play, etc. I make whatever phone calls that need to be made.

Noon- 12:30 PM: I get to talk to Sue while she has lunch and pumps (breast pumps). The Girls may or maynot be up. Usually I'm feeding one or the other.
Side note: Sue and I are ever so lucky. There are very few times that both of the babes need to be fed/changed at the same time. I usually have time to tend to one before the other needs me. This has the advantage that I'm not usually stressed out, but it also means that most of the time during the day I'm having to be working on a baby. (Don't tell anyone, but I LOVE my new career. Being a caregiver for these two little ones is SO much better than selling computers.

12:30-3 PM: Freestyle. I may get a nap, I may not. The girls are awake or not. It's kinda fun (more fun if I've had sleep ;) ). I work on what I'm fixing for dinner.


3 PM- 4:30 PM Work on dinner prep, feed/change/play with my angels (all 3 of them).

4:30 PM- 5:30 PM: Sue comes home during this time and gets to bond with the girls while I finish cooking dinner.

5:30 PM- 7 PM: Everybody gets to eat during this time, although not all at once. Sue feeds the girls while I'm serving dinner, then Itake overwhile she eats (I always need a few minutes anyway after fixing dinner to cool off and rehydriate). When Sue finishes eating, she takes over and I eat.
If it's bathnight for Libby and Mel, this gets started in this time frame.

7 PM- 7:30 PM: Start gathering up babies, formula, snacks as we get heady for:

7:30 PM- 9:30 PM: We all go upstairs and start the girl's bedtime routine. They get changed into PJs, get fed, Sue reads them bedtime stories while I go back downstairs and clean up the kitchen and start the dishwasher.

9:30 PM- 12:30 AM: Sleep. On a bad night, just Sue sleeps while I handle the girls. Libby is usally good about falling asleep and staying there, Mel not so much. I've learned that if I feed Mel and then hold her so her ear is over my heart and i recline back in my cool recliner in the nursery, she'll fall asleep. So will I. Hehe.

Well that's a basic day.