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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, could you describe how DS typically spends his days?[/quote]

On weekdays DS is in daycare most of the day.  His wakeup time is variable, but because I WAH with a pretty flexible schedule, I usually take him to daycare about 2 hours after whenever he wakes (unless he wakes REALLY early, like before 6am - in which case he is often cranky and still very tired, and so I put him down for a nap 2-3 hours after waking, do some work while he sleeps, then take him to daycare after he wakes).  In the mornings he gets a bottle when he gets up, then we play and take a bath (sometimes first we play and then bathe, other times we bathe first and then play), then we have breakfast, and then get ready to leave for daycare.  Our play in the mornings typically involves reading books, me trying to get him to play with the shape sorting toy, wandering around and pulling things off shelves in the master bedroom, etc.  I talk to him pretty much constantly from the time he wakes until we get in the car to head to daycare.  In the car I put on music and sing to him.

I know much less about what he does at daycare.  I know they do circle time, and I know he interacts a lot with the older boy there (4 years old) and the boy's older sister when she's there for aftercare.  I see him playing with the toy kitchen a lot these days when I pick him up, and he plays with those toys (not sure what they're called) that have the beads on the wires fixed to a wooden base.  But mostly he seems to dart around, checking out everything in the room, much as he does at home.  He does not nap most of the time at daycare (why I keep him home to nap in the mornings if he's gotten up especially early), or when he does it's just a 20-30 minute nap.  All the other kids will be asleep and the place completely quiet, and he won't go down for a nap.

In the evenings, I pick him up and put on the radio and sing to him on the way home, or I just talk to him in the car.  When we get home we usually play for about 30 minutes (reading books, me trying to get him interested in puzzles, him pulling everything off the bookcase, pulling spices out of the bin in the kitchen, pulling the Tupperware out of the cabinet, etc.), or longer if DH is already home (in which case DH might play with DS a little longer so that I can put some dinner together).  Then we do dinner.  If DH is home (60% of the time maybe?) we both sit at the table with DS in the highchair pulled up to the table, and we all eat together.  If it’s just me, then I’m usually just feeding DS and not myself.  After dinner we get ready for bed, and our bedtime routine is a bottle, then singing and rocking.

On the weekends the mornings and evenings look pretty much the same.  After bathing and dressing I play with DS until he’s ready for a nap, which is usually about 3 or so hours after he gets up.  He usually gets a bottle and/or a snack before his nap, and usually takes a 1-2 hour morning nap on the weekend these days.  After his nap we (DH, DS and I) typically have lunch, and then we go out and do something for the afternoon.  Usually grocery shopping, Target, errands or the like.  I usually try to make it home for another nap about 3.5-4 hours after he woke from the first, but to be honest I don’t insist on it.  DS will take a decent nap in the car if we’re out and about, and sometimes on a weekend day it seems to make sense to do that.  Either way, he typically gets another 45 min – 1.5 hour nap in the afternoon (depending on the length of his morning nap and whether we’re home or out and about), and then we play some more (if home, or if we’ve taken him to one of the play spaces at the mall or something) and do dinner and the usual evening routine.
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