Our Typical Day
I am getting some great ideas here from mothers who are sharing what their "typical day" is like. We usually don't have the same schedule everyday but this is the kinda what it looks like:
Deacon wakes up around 6:30 - 7:00. I give him a cup of milk and put him in bed with me. Sometimes he goes back to sleep, sometimes we just lay in bed and watch cartoons until
We eat breakfast which is usually yogurt and oatmeal, pancakes or muffins.
After breakfast we get ready for the day. I usually try to have some type of "activity" for us to do in the mornings. This helps him to hold off on napping until after lunch. Some of our activities have or will include; story time, play dates, tubes at Rock Creek and the zoo.
Deacon usually wants to eat around 11:00 to 11:30 and then is down for a nap for 2-3 hours. I use this time to work, do chores, make phone calls and have computer time. When Deacon is around we cannot even open a computer with out him thinking he needs to use it, the same thing applies to the phone.
Once he wakes up we have play time and recently have been playing outside and going for a walk.
Then it is time to make dinner. At this time Deacon gets to watch one of his favorite shows, either Word World or Super Why. When that doesn't distract him long enough for me to make dinner he plays in the cabinets in the kitchen.
After dinner we have family play time, then it is bath time about 7:15 and he is in bed around 8.
My main goal is to make sue he doesn't get bored with me! I am constantly looking for things for us to do. If you have any advice I would love to hear it.
I usually have 1 day during the week to be at home all day to get everything caught up. There is a lot of stuff that I can't do when Deacon is awake, but somethings he likes to help with like laundry and vacuuming.
That is what a typical day in our lives look like. I love it!
Brenda Slover
Ashley,If you want a good idea for learning letters and sounds, get the Leap Frog DVD Letter Factory Video. It's great. We got the idea at a reading conference and it really helps with letters and sounds. I have told the parents of the students I work with and everyone that has bought it brags about it. Deacon is not too young to start watching it either. Jamie's nephew is 1 1/2 and he will tell you the sounds of a few of the letters if you ask him and it's from watching this video. I bought it at Target. It's in the video section. There's a second on too that's called Talking Words Factory that's good.
Brenda
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