Isaac has been FUSSY lately. Teething at least 3 teeth right now. I know I mentioned it before and I sound like a broken record, but I’m just setting the stage for this post. I was not really looking forward to today. I thought that with Ethan and Audrey gone and not around to distract Isaac that I would be spending all day trying to keep him happy.
It ended up so much better than I feared! After we waved goodbye to Nathan, I went downstairs and pulled the play kitchen out of the storage room and brought it upstairs. I set it up in the corner of the kitchen. It was a new toy to Isaac. He had no memory of it and he played with it nonstop for over a half hour. During that time, I was able to scrub down the kitchen table and chairs (do you know how dirty chairs get when you have a toddler and a 3 and 5 year old?), clean the sinks, Windex the kitchen windows and scrub the kitchen walls! Did you know that having three young children can make your kitchen walls rather dirty at about toddler/preschool height level? It never occurred to me before having children of my own that this would be a task that I would have to do. Isaac played happily the entire time I did those tasks.
A little while later, he was tired so I laid him down. Because I didn’t have any other children to worry about in regards to schedules, I didn’t mess with waking him at a certain time to make sure he would nap when I wanted him to later. I figured that if he didn’t sleep, I would keep him up until lunch time and if he did sleep, I would let him sleep as long as he wanted. He needed it. He slept for about 2 1/2 hours. I couldn’t believe it. I was able to finish a few more tasks and relax a little. When he got up it was time for lunch and then I had time to run some errands with him since he wasn’t tired. When we got home from doing errands, I decided to take a walk. He fell asleep at the end of my hour long walk and stayed sleeping when I put him in his crib when we got home. He didn’t sleep long, but he had slept enough that he wasn’t cranky!
Day one of Isaac being an only child was a success! We’ll see what tomorrow brings.
That is so nice! Ella has VBS this week and I have been shocked at how long Andrew naps in the morning when she is not here. It has been a nice week for me
I hope today goes well for you!