…the front door closes and then there were 2...

…the front door closes and then there were 2….Tuesday morning 8:20am…no time to think, I have to finish feeding Oscar his breakfast as we have to leave as we have a “Baby Sign and Sing” class at 9:30 in Bells Corners and we don’t want to be late. Breakfast done and upstairs we go for a quick wardrobe change and a one-handed tooth brushing for me (having not heeded Lauren’s advice earlier of making sure I get everything done before he gets up). Nice and dressed and into the van we go with an extra coffee for me and we are on the road to Bells Corners.  We had checked the day before to know where I was to go for the class, so it was a nice easy drive. Arrived a little early and saw another parent and her twin girls going into the class, so Oscar and I headed in. It is an interesting course, although looking back after having my other class on Weds (description to follow), I realized a lot of things that the teachers did different and how much I enjoyed the Wednesday class much more. So once the class was over, (and not soon enough as one of the other parents let their child partake in almost the entire class while sporting a rather full diaper and not changing her), Oscar and I headed to Toys’r’us, as we were looking for little egg shaker maracas, like the ones we had used in the class. Lauren had told me they had been used in the other classes. Oscar just loves that and takes them in hand and shakes, shakes, and shakes away... it is just so sweet.  We ended up finding some little maracas at Boomerang Kids. Back home in time for morning milk and then some play time before lunch.  Lunch, more play, then Jolly Jumper and nap time…all went smooth as silk…I must have done something wrong….nope…all is on schedule…wow. Downstairs I go, monitor in hand, and do a workout.  Oscar wakes up just around 4pm and we sit out on the front step and relax waiting for Lauren to get home….day 1 in the books…

Wednesday is our later morning for our Musical Movement class in Kanata, so we take it easy in the morning. Oscar has a short morning nap after breakfast and then we hit the road as I want to stop and pick up some Keurig pods for my coffee machine before class. We swing into Kanata and stop at Tweed and Hickory... love their selection of Keurig coffee pods, and then a stop at CD Warehouse to say Hi to Mark O and Steve B. We arrived at class a little early and meet one of the other parents and her son Walker. FANTASTIC CLASS today, what a change from yesterday’s class.  It was fun and organized and had structure and it was just so much better.  I could tell that Oscar liked it better too. Off we head home and Oscar has his morning milk just around 12:15, so that pushes his lunch back a little. No problem. We do some carpet time, play, and some reading, and then it’s lunch and more play time followed by Jolly Jumper and nap time. Today, he slept for almost 2.5 hours... it was excellent, I had a chance to work out and relax a bit. He woke up just before Lauren got home…phew….day 2 in the books…so far so good. J

Thursday morning is an early day as we drop Lauren off at work (in the afternoon we go to my mum’s for dinner). So we head out around 8:20am and head into the city. Traffic isn’t too bad until we hit Hunt Club and then it comes to a crawl. We finally get Lauren to her office just before 9am and we head to my mum’s to feed Oscar his morning milk as he is getting fussy. No such luck on the milk... he didn’t want it, but he was so excited to be at Grandma’s and was looking all around for her, but she wasn’t home. We headed out from there and went to run some errands and then head back home. Oscar was good as gold the entire time. We got home and he finally had his milk. Then we relaxed and it was the usual routine of lunch, play, jolly jumper and then nap and workout for me. He woke up at around 3:30pm and off we headed to pick Lauren up at work and head to Grandma’s for dinner. A nice dinner and back home….I think I am getting the hang of this…

Friday – I decided after Lauren left that I was going to head downtown to visit my old coworkers with Oscar.  So off we went and had a great visit for almost an hour and a half during which he was an angel. Got home and he was a little fussy so I fed him his morning milk and he drank that right down. After some relaxing, it was lunch time and then jolly jumper…I could tell he was tired so it was a shortened version of Jolly Jumper today. I had warmed up his milk and we headed upstairs for milk and nap, but that wasn’t to be the case. He drank about 1 ounce of his milk and closed his lips tight, not wanting anymore. I could tell he was tired, so I took him into the nursery and rocked him and he fell asleep and slept for almost 2 and a half hours. He woke up just in time for Lauren to arrive home.

So week 1 is down and done (yes, I know it was only a 4-day week) and I think it went really well. No real complaints on my part or Oscar’s part as to the way things went, but it was only week 1. J Let’s see what next week has to offer.