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| Who are you calling cranky butt? |
Since she moves at the speed of an aged sloth when I have to wake her up in the morning, this is as late as I can let her sleep and still get her to eat anything before we have to leave (8:40am).
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| Is this real life? |
The bonus of her comatose-like state in the morning is that I can get fancy with her hair. I figure I used to braid horse hair all the time, so those same skills should apply. Too bad they haven't invented a lip twitch for toddlers to get them to stay as still as a horse.
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Once I drop off Faith at school, my 5 hour window of freedom starts. Well, if freedom is defined as just dealing with a 3 month old baby. This morning I wanted to run outside because it was 70 degrees (in January!), but we had to hang around the house for a bit until something very important happened.
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| I'm making Mommy a surprise...in my diaper |
It was really windy outside today, so I was worried about taking the jogger outside without a toddler counterweight. I still have my single jogging stroller, but it doesn't have the car seat attachment bar so if I wanted to run outside, I needed to take the double stroller. I'm sure any neighbors that saw my cargo are now convinced that I'm REALLY insane.
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| Finally, a quiet passenger. |
While it was nice to get outside, the 20mph wind made pushing the stroller really challenging, except when the wind was at my back. Then it was awesome.
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| There is nothing awesome about this. |
Cordelia has really mixed emotions about the stroller. She usually starts out sleeping and then wakes up about a mile from the house and starts fussing. It's like she has a little alarm in there.
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| I like to make you run faster Mommy. |
The best part of having her in the car seat is that she is facing me so I can make faces and sing to get her to stop fussing. So, I was running pushing a stroller full of hand weights and a car seat through my neighborhood while singing Sublime songs to my baby. Totally normal.
I picked up Faith at 2pm and they had just woken her up from a nap and she was super cranky. She's basically been a ball of anger and emotion since I brought her home. Her caregivers said she was a delight at school today. So to sum it up, I have a cranky toddler in the morning, a cranky toddler in the afternoon and evening, and the people I pay to deal with my kid get her in her most pleasant state. There is something that is just wrong about that.
How much prep time do you need in the morning? I like to sleep as long as possible, so I can get dressed and ready to go in less than 15 minutes, but unlike a toddler I understand the concept of "hurry up".
That little old man you're pushing around sure is cute.
ReplyDeleteI gave birth to Benjamin Button.
DeleteAhhhaaa well at least this time if the dog came after you, you could throw one of the weights at it....
ReplyDeleteI am so prepared!
DeleteI would pay money to see you running with a stroller full of weights and a baby while singing. I bet there was some dancing involved too.
ReplyDeleteMy butt is always shaking when I'm running.
DeleteYou'd think you'd be less fat since you run so much, but you'd be wrong.
DeleteI hate being rushed in the mornings. It takes me like 30min just to go running before work. I need 15-20min to drink coffee and wake up before I do anything.
ReplyDeleteOf course, when I oversleep and nearly miss my flight, I've been known to get out of the house in 10min.
You couldn't convince Peanut to sit in the other half? Then she could have kept Cordelia company.
ReplyDeleteAnd I thought I got bedhead but Faith takes the cake on that one :)
I can usually be ready in under 15 minutes (no shower). Charlotte is still at the age where she doesn't fight me while getting ready, but soon I'm sure she'll have an opinion about her socks or hair bow.
ReplyDeleteyou're disgusting.
DeleteI saw Kathy in McKays right after school and she told me that Faith is an absolute delight. So she wasn't just blowing smoke up your backside, Faith must have been sweet as sunshine =)
ReplyDeleteAll three of my girls had Miss Kathy. I love that woman =)
I can't remember what it feels like to sleep in past 6. My daughter has a terrible internal alarm clock and it usually goes off at 5.
ReplyDeleteLOVE the picture of faith with her morning hair.
Early in the morning
ReplyDeleteRisin' to the street
Drop me off my toddler
and strap Cordelia in her seat
Got to find a reason
A reason to run long
Got to find a reason
To bring handweights along...
Running - It's what I got
Running - I run a lot a lot a lot a lot
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DeleteThat was pretty awesome. I love Sublime.
DeleteAmazing, I really can't comment after reading this one!
DeleteMy kids are still like that at 10 and 12. Wonderful and angelic when at school or at a friends house, but at home, not so much. Lucky me!
ReplyDeletehow am i supposed to comment after that one?! jeez...wind, weights, and a baby. at least the weather was warm!
ReplyDeleteI hate rushing in the morning. It's the only time of day when I feel like I have control of my day so I now opt to go to bed earlier and get up earlier so I don't have to rush. It has been making my mornings much more pleasant.
ReplyDeleteOur kids have that same split sleep personality: up and at 'em on Saturday, drag-asses on school mornings. And now that school starts at 8, it's even more fun to get them up. Especially Will, who groans like an animal rousted from its lair. He is NOT going to be a morning person. I dread his high school days.
ReplyDeleteI drag my ass out of bed at 6:40am. I am ready by 7am. I load up the car with the stuff needed for daycare and work... then I wake Isaac (he'll be 11 months old next week ). I get him dressed and nursed. I then get him bundled up and we are out the door by about 7:25-7:30.
ReplyDeleteIt is STILL a giant victory if Cameron sleeps until 6. We had a short run with 6:15-6:30 and now it's back to 5-5:30 (today it was 5:07). And then you start to measure success in ways like today where I went in and told him he had to lay back down and sleep for another hour and he kind of listened in that he was quiet until 5:50 at which time we conceded and got up. This is a daily thing. I think it's part of the reason I haven't thrown my hat back into the "time for another one" ring yet. I'm petrified of being up every 1-2 hrs and not being able to extend the morning into 8-9a.m. At this point in this age, I can't even make myself feel better by telling myself, "Oh, in another 10 months when the baby comes, he'll be sleeping in longer" because if he's 2 1/2 and STILL doing it, I don't think there' s much hope in that department. So then I tell myself stuff like, "Oh but the second one will actually be a sleeper because everyone says the second one is 'totally different' and the first one was sleep deprivation hell" but the truth is, well, you know know the truth :-)
ReplyDeleteGirlfriend has some crazy hair! :) You couldn't give yourself a pass and run without the weights?? I do know of someone who was training to run a marathon while pushing a stroller but his baby was too little to train with so he ran with sandbags in the stroller until the kid was old enough to go along for the ride. Madness!
ReplyDeleteI usually need to mute the monitor about twice before I can even get myself out of bed, and then once we are up, I don't make any attempts to get ready until about 11am. So, 4 hours. Why get out of my pajamas before I have to?
ReplyDeleteFaith's hair is killing me.
Cordelia just keeps getting cuter and cuter! If I'm not running, I will sleep until about 7:50, then roll out of bed, brush my teeth, pour coffee, and chug it while I throw on clothes and do the absolute minimum I can to make it look like I didn't just get out of bed, and then I'll be at work by 8:30. Putting time into your appearance is for losers. For running I can come home from work and be out the door in under ten minutes, but in the morning the same process takes like 20-25. That's when I move at the speed of an aged sloth.
ReplyDeleteLove that you run with the weights on the other side of the stroller! Hilarious!
ReplyDeleteI'm wondering if you are planning on enrolling Faith in more days of preschool starting in the fall?
We just started her with 2 days a week this month and we'll probably stick with that until she is ready for "real" preschool (when she is 4, unless she is ready for that early). Her school right now is pretty unstructured and she will probably stick with that format for another year.
DeleteI miss being able to make faces at Hailey in the stroller! Ever since she turned around (which has been a while because she is 16 months now), it's been so hard to get in a decent walk or run without the pacifier, crackers and suckers. Even with those it's tough, so we don't do it much anymore.
ReplyDeleteOh, and prep time? You'd think I was torturing H by trying to get her dressed, so it takes a solid 20 minutes just to put her shirt on as I chase her around :)
Nope, not a morning person at all. Although, I am trying. Jury is still convening.
ReplyDeleteThat cracked me up about the lip twitch. Not sure many would get it. I work with horses so yeah, there are plenty of times when a lip twitch would come in handy. Off the top of my head I'm thinking grocery store.
i have a very slow roll to my mornings. i require at least 30 minutes from the time my alarm goes off the first time until i'm expected to jaws of life myself out of bed. from there its at least 60-90 minutes before i dare leave the house. i have to gently come into my morning. having said that, in an emergency i can be ready to go from shower to door in less than 30 minutes.
ReplyDeleteand none of the above involves getting kids dressed, fed & ready to go. THANK GOD they're old enough to take care of that on their own now.
DeleteI need an hour and 10 minutes. This includes bunny play time and feeding while getting myself presentable and leaving just enough time to change my outfit 3 times until I'm happy.
ReplyDeleteI've tried more time and less time and am still late. Less time, I don't have enough (obviously) and more time, I just waste it doing crap I don't need to do in the morning.
I also gnaw on hands when I poop. (Not my own.)
I would absolutely LOVE to have you running with all that in my neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad I'm not the only one where my kid wakes up before the sun on the one day I could sleep in.
I'm sure the Kenyans train for marathons pushing a double stroller laden with baby and weights and sing to increase their lung capacity. But I've heard they're partial to songs like"Lion Sleeps Tonight", "Eye of the Tiger" and anything from Lion King. If you're doing it like the Kenyans you must be doing it right.
ReplyDeleteThey eat breakfast to the Rocky soundtrack.
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DeleteHi, I just found your blog and I love it! Your girls are super cute.
ReplyDeleteSo is the little old man in the diaper.
DeleteIt takes us about four hours to get ready. We're awesome over here.
ReplyDeleteAnd if I saw you pushing weights and a half-empty double Bob stroller down my street, I'd hand you a cup of double-brewed coffee because I still refuse to believe you live that life of yours caffeine-free.
I wish I could drink coffee, but my stomach hates it. It makes me feel like I'm going to hurl :)
DeleteI read a post once written (of course) by someone without kids. They said you should never tell your child to "hurry up" because it makes them feel like their "process" is not "valued." I was like, "WHOOPS!" I got a whole lotta people who are feeling not valued right about now!
ReplyDeleteWe are late everywhere. Always. But only by about 3-5 minutes. Doesn't matter how much prep time we allow ourselves. It is so weird.
My days just depend on the day. On Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, and Friday I roll out of bed around 730, get both kids ready, and head out the door by 750 to get my daughter to school in time. On Wednesday, I have to get up at 630 so I can get my daughter to daycare and my son and I to work on time.
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