The one with bubbles bubbles bubbles!

Grant and Sara came up a few days ago, and Sara had to run some errands, so we prepared and brought distractions. They were a successful hit!

Bubbles bubbles!! This was part of lucas valentines present, but he found it in the bag and so we used it to our advantage! 

Luca ran away to chase all the bubbles all the way down. 

We gave luca a few turns to blow, but he just wanted to pop.

Then he kept going down to the parking lot so he got banished from the ground into Nicole's arms. Luckily he still loved his life. 

Grant was in heaven. He loved those bubbles! 

We came home, grant surprisingly napped--and when he woke up was still so out of it, he just sat and watched a movie with Nicole. 

This is our basic routine while attempting to get jams on and read scriptures. 

He takes his socks off--especially when I want him to keep them on. 

Then while I put his diaper in the genie he sits right up. All naked. Luckily he has yet to pee--KNOCK on wood. He's just an adorable naked head. 

Then once he's dressed he runs and hides from me and his toothbrush. 

He just cracks himself right up and laughs so hard. Then he comes and let's me brush and we get cozy for scriptures and relaxing time. 

The one with the routine.

With Jose being jobless lately we have had lots of things to be grateful for, and many things we have to remind ourselves to be grateful for, which isn't easy. 

One of the things that I am TOTALLY grateful for is sleep. My babe is completely on board with that as well. He sleeps for a straight 8-10 hours every night. It's usually between 11pm-1am that he falls alseep for good. However. I fall asleep without fail between 11-12. It doesn't matter what I am doing, I will fall asleep. It's happened while I'm nursing, eating, watching a movie, holding a screaming child, pumping, reading, seriously. It doesn't matter. 

When that happens Jose will just let me sleep. He will come and take Luca from me and play with him and feed him until he is ready to sleep too, and then will put him in his crib for the night and then he gets to go to bed. 

Because he does this for me, I let him sleep in the morning, and I get Luca up and fed. I feel like I totally have the better end of the deal because Luca doesn't wake up until between 8-9:30 and by then I am rested and ready for the day! 

It works out very well for us because Jose is completely a night owl and I am so not a night person. I get mean and cranky and snappy. I really need my sleep. I never thought I was a morning person but I have learned that that term fits better. I don't wake up singing--but once I'm up, I'm up and it doesn't bother me too much. Jose is opposite there too. He isn't a cranky pants in the morning but he is silent and won't talk for a few hours, and gets irritated more easily. 

For this, I am grateful he doesn't have a reason he has to get up super early and actually needs to go to sleep at a decent time. 

I know I need to work on my child's timing, and start the long stretch earlier, but for now I am satisfied. And if he wants to sleep this long, I don't care when he goes to sleep. 

He does so many things with his hands all the time.  He loves them.  This is my favorite. 

The one with the morning routine

The days I attempt to shower and get ready all in an hour are interesting. If Luca is sleeping I usually get lucky and can finish before he wakes up. But on the days he doesn't want to nap, it's a different story. If Jose is gone or busy I put him in one of his bouncers next to the shower, and he is only thrilled for about 10 min. And then he loses it. He gets super mad until I turn the blow dryer on, and then he is distracted for a little longer. 

Today he just didn't want to be put down--but let's face it. I have to get ready. Or I don't leave my bed. Which isn't cool. So he's learning. Today I even attempted harry potter as a distraction but that was a no go--maybe he isn't really my child...

This is my view from the shower. I just talk to him and try to distract him--or he will lay and laugh an giggle at nothing--or angels maybe. 

Then when I get out of the shower we go from this:

To this:

And then this:

And finally: 

All in about 10 seconds. Sometimes it's less. 

And then I turn the blow dryer on and I get back to this:

However. Without fail, within a few minutes (sometimes seconds) we are back to this: 

This is where (today anyway) I tried harry potter, because he loves the dang tv, but he didn't want anything to do with that. So when everything else fails I give him a bottle next to me so I can finish. 

I usually don't condone using the bottle in the bouncer--one because it's sad to prop the bottle up and not actually give human contact (my mom told me a while ago that she would prop the bottle up for me while she was cooking or doing something and it makes her sad to think of that now, so I'm trying to take that and learn from it), and two he spits up like nobodies business if he's laying down and eating. Today however it was my last option. 

Usually I can finish quickly and finish giving him the bottle myself, but he fell asleep on me today. Which is even worse because I didn't even get around to burping him--I'll pay for that later--but seriously. There is no way I would wake my child up from a nap. No sir. Not for anything less than life threatening. If I do, my life is threatened because he will scream the rest of the day and not sleep again until 11pm. 

That is a true story. It happens more than I would like to admit. 

So after all the moving around and cooing I do to distract him (and the picture taking of course) I am finally ready for the day after an hour and a half. 

Even though he has made my mornings so much longer, I still love him. :)