New routine...

I wasn`t consciously trying to get Joey into more of a routine but over the past couple of months I have realised that whatever it was we were doing wasn`t working because I was permanently exhuasted and had zero time for myself and while Joey seemed happy enough, I figured it was time to do something about it all. However, being rubbish at taking affirmative action, I didn`t actually get around to putting my thoughts into action. This week has been really good. We have been getting up at the same time (I think this was a big root of the problem, I would lie in in the mornings until Joey woke me up and that meant we were waking up at different and random times every day) and eating breakfast and lunch at the same time and J has been having a nap at pretty much the same time every day (compared to at random times when he got sleepy) Every night this week he has been in bed between 8-9pm and it has been blissful!!! I know that everything will probably go to pot over the weekend as we are going to stay with my MIL on sunday night but I am hoping that we can try and maintain this routine as it seems to have made life so much easier and I feel like I have created an extra couple of hours in the day and although I think I am technically getting the same amount of sleep, getting up at the same time every day is probably helping my body clock as well. On a very cute note, Joey`s favourite thing to do at the moment is colour/draw/ scribble. Nothing makes him happier than sitting down with a book and his colouring pencils and he has started taking them everywhere with him. Last night I put him to bed and rather than stay with him until he fell asleep, I left him there to fall asleep by himself. He babbled to himself for a while and then there was complete silence so I went in to check on him and he was fast asleep but he was clutching his colouring book in one hand and about five pencils in the other!!! It was very cute and I wish I had taken a picture but I didn`t want to wake him up as it was bad enough having to take the stuff away from him as he seemed every attached!!! My MIL has been going on for a while about how my husband had a big tanuki that he was very attached to and had to take everywhere. It would seem that my son`s new "snuggly" is not remotely snuggly at all!!! At least it is light and compact though!!!