My Little Ladies: A day in the life at 18 months

A normal day begins around 6-6:30. I have the luxury of sleeping in until one of the girls wakes me up! For a bit they were both sleeping until 7-7:30, but recently they have been getting up earlier. We do the typical morning activities; milk, get dressed, have breakfast, read books and play. Around 8 we head out the door. 3 or 4 times a week we go to the Y, where the girls have finally accepted that I will just be dropping them off for a hour, not abandoning them for the rest of their lives. This was a MAJOR feat for us, especially Brooklyn. It took her a good 3 months of going consistently before she stopped crying hysterically when we pulled into the Y parking lot.

After the Y, we usually go to the park, go to a story time, or listen to music at Whole Foods. They have a kids hour and musicians sing children's songs and all the kids get wild on the dance floor. Ok, mostly it's my children getting wild on the dance floor and running around the room like mad women, but it's really great (free) entertainment! Some days we meet up with one of my girlfriends so that the kids can play together and moms can have some adult time, but it's hard to really have an adult conversation at this age because they still need us to help them with a lot of activities.

"Is mom watching?" Whole Foods Kids Hour

All danced out

I forgot to mention, almost every day they stand at the fence and hope that they neighbor boys will come out to play. Yes, it starts early ha.

Sisterly love in Publix.

We head back to the house around 11 and meet up with Daddy for lunch. The girls go down for a nap at 12:30 and will sleep for 2-3 hours. When they get up we hang around the house, play outside at the water table or in their Cozy Coups or walk over to the park. Dad comes home from work and we eat dinner and the girls get bathed every other night. This is the time of day Brooklyn and Ivey seem to get crazy and like to run around the house chasing each other. It is so fun to watch! We encourage them to get nuts in the hopes that they will wear themselves down. They cool down and watch a tv show before we put them to bed at 7:15.

Running laps around the house

Sweet Ivey. Love those blue eyes!

Nothing too exciting! The girls won't be starting preschool until next year so I have one more year of just us three gals. I was considering going back to work, but since these will probably be our only children I have to look at the bigger picture. They will only be little like this ONE time, so I had better savor it.