Routine

All in all things have fallen into a pretty good daily routine around here and I think we have adjusted to day care pretty well.  Ella is amazing and continues to sleep through the night so I wake her up about 15 minutes before we need to leave to change and dress her and then we are on our way!

I tried to wake her up to feed her one morning and it was a disaster, she was just not ready to eat!  So now I let them give her her morning bottle and I let her sleep.. plus I get a little extra sleep too!  Once we get to KinderCare Ms Anna takes over loving on Ella.  She usually takes time to tell me how great she did the day before and how advanced she is.  Sometimes she brings her out into the main room to show off "her baby" to the rest of the staff.  They can't believe how happy she is :)  (I mean duh, she gets to live with me and Nick!)

I try and leave work as close to 5 as possible and drive the 2 minutes to go pick her up and we head home.  They have typically fed and changed her right before I get there so at home I get something to eat and then we play and cuddle and she tells me all about her day.  Once Daddy gets home one of us makes bottles for the next day and packs them up.  Around 9 we give her another bottle for the night and then it is off to bed!

Ella loves sucking her thumb so much that we have stoped swaddling her with her arms in and we just put her to bed wrapped up and sometimes wide awake.  Nick and I usually stay up for another half hour to make sure she falls asleep and then we are off to bed too, just to wake up at 5:30 and do it all over again!

I sure do miss her during the day, but I think we are both adjusting, plus it makes the weekends even more enjoyable!