Now Parenting: Week 27

Sunday: OMG, standard sleep. (Dreamt about parking metre issues at a writer convention?) With Alexandra for almost 3.5 hours from 7am, including snooze. (Incidentally, Anne-Lise figured out we were using the bottle warmer wrong.) Then morning meal, nose sucking, and second snooze at 11am - with Mom, so shower and stuff, woo. Out for weight check (13 pounds) and to find a filter for the vaporizer (no luck). Was with Alexandra for an hour, then my own snooze for almost an hour, eventually started bath process after 6pm. Dinner after 7pm, downstairs 10:30pm with still no outcry.

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Monday: Standard 6 hrs sleep. With Alexandra from 6:15am to family breakfast an hour later. Standard school, home by 2:30pm (still no filter). Alexandra time for over an hour when she sat up for at least five seconds unassisted, then asleep myself for half an hour. Out to dinner by 5:30pm, home just over an hour later for the new routine. She did another belly-like laugh when I floated her (a la Simba) after her bath. Cribbed by 7:45pm, I'm grading quizzes. Awake after 9:30pm but seems to be okay with going back to sleep in crib lately! Downstairs 10:30pm.

Tuesday: Standard sleep, plus creepy dream. With Alexandra for a little over half an hour from 6:30am, then photos, then breakfast, then standard school. Returned home for 1pm since Anne-Lise's night had been rough, to spend a couple hours with the little one again (including standard snooze). Left for staff holiday gathering, home again 6pm for bath and bed routine. Little one asleep for 7:30pm, I'm downstairs before 9pm, asleep not long after.

Wednesday: Seven hours sleep(!), awake 4:30am (dream about internet reviewer world) just in time for snot suck crying. Gave change and leftover bottle, helped soothe back to sleep. Had breakfast, read comic, took Alexandra for some time from 6:30am. Prepped for day, standard school, stayed for grading and yoga. Home before 5pm, over an hour with Alexandra, half that time being a snooze. Bath after 6:30pm, only an hour until she was in crib. Then emails, dinner, dishes, and garland hanging; downstairs before 11pm.

Thursday: Less than standard sleep, eventually went upstairs, had Alexandra for an hour before breakfast. Standard school, plus rehearsal after for assembly. (Haircut in the middle.) Then to store for hamper, home by 4:30pm, out to in-laws for visit and to get wife and little one. Home again 6pm. When little one wakes, vectored to bed, cribbed by 7:30pm. Timeless movie! Downstairs after 10:30pm, then upstairs for bottle, then downstairs again.

Friday: Standard sleep (hard to judge when waking in the middle), with Alexandra for an hour after 6am. After breakfast we all headed off to school! She slept for the first part, fussed when anyone else held her, but generally good. Had to do hampers, students had to write tests, rough drafts were submitted, holiday assembly where I had my math song and was part of the teacher song... very busy. Went to get Alexandra after 2pm, home by 3pm, asleep then awake, then asleep for an hour(!). Played for a couple hours after that including some mirror selfies. Anne-Lise back before 7pm, headed to crib. I went to bed around 9:30pm.

Saturday: Awake 3:30am for tears. Then with Alexandra for close to three hours after 7am, and the same after 11:15am. (Breakfast in between, tried grains. Also another hour sleep noonish!) Officially out of number 1 diapers and into size 2. Brief rest at 2:15pm but then back into issues with gifts and setting up the tree, etc. To Chapel St for 7pm, back home to get saline for screaming little one, waited in car as she dozed, upstairs after 8pm. More juggling. Back home after 10pm, then photo manipulations, downstairs 1am. GOD I hate Saturdays.

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Item counts run Sunday (Dec 16) to Saturday (Dec 22).

Step Count 2016: About 46,500
Step Count 2017: Over 70,900 (14 stars).
STEP COUNT 2018: Over 79,800. 10 stars.

FROM 2016:
-Was meeting deadlines amid chaos.
FROM 2017:
-Car repair issue, caught a cold, secret santa art sketches.

SchoolMail 2016: 54 (1 sent)
SchoolMail 2017: 134 (23 sent)
SCHOOL EMAIL 2018: 144 New (30 sent)
We have completed DAY 78 -1(tornado). (Includes 2 PD Days.)

TEACHING RELATED ITEMS:
 -Looked over 3M & 4U quizzes
 -Graded more 4U articles
 -Started grading new 3M tests

WRITING + ART RELATED ITEMS:
 -Finished "Sequence" (Sleigh Ride) song parody
 -Thursday Comic Tea Party Chat

OTHER ITEMS:
 -Staff Xmas gathering Tues
 -House decorating Wed/Thurs/Sat
 -Visit with relatives Thurs
 -"Timeless" movie on Thurs :)
 -Visit with relatives Sat
 -Lotus Prince's "Snatcher" (Parts 7-14)

UPCOMING FOR SURE:
 -XMas, Car Trip, Xmas2, lunch w/ friend

REGULAR TO-DO LIST:
 -Recap for CanCon 2018
 -Write a TANDQ article on Polling and Bias
 -Write a post about types of praise/encouragement
 -Catching up with web serials/comics (from ~May 2018)
 -Read some of the books sitting at my desk

RH Stress Level: 7 (Starlight Breaker)