A Day in the Life – 5 Months

Today Cullen is 5 months old!

I love how much he is changing these days. Every day it seems like he learns something new and is becoming less like an infant.

Here’s what our day looked like today. I enjoy doing one of these posts each month to document how he changes from month to month.

12:30 a.m. First wake-up of the night. Woohoo! This is improvement from the past few weeks. (I can’t talk about it too much otherwise I’ll jinx myself.)

4:40 a.m. I dream feed Cullen since I woke up on my own.

5:00 a.m. Back to bed I go. Well, I crawl back into bed, but I don’t fall asleep.

5:30 a.m. I get up and get ready to go running: pump, get changed, brush my teeth, and tell Craig I’m leaving.

6:05 a.m. Leave to go running. I run 7 miles and enjoy the rising sun towards the end of my run. It is still a bit chilly in the mornings but that’s better than the bitter winter temps.

7:15 a.m. Return home. Cullen is up, so I change his diaper and clothes. Talk to Craig, hang out with my boys, and then head downstairs for breakfast.

7:30 a.m. Make breakfast. Then clean up the kitchen. I have a fried egg with avocado on an English muffin. My green smoothie included spinach, a frozen banana, cinnamon, a scoop of protein powder, and water.

8:00 a.m. One last feeding for Cullen before we head out, but as I suspected he isn’t interested in eating. But he does have a blow-out, so we change his diaper and put on outfit #2 for the day.

8:15 a.m. Get ready to go to out-and-about for the morning. Finish packing diaper bag, collect the lunch I packed last night, and head out.

8:40 a.m. Arrive at yoga. Perfect timing. I think I’m doing better about being on time and even early these days with an infant because I know I can’t dilly-dally.

8:45 a.m. Yoga. I am able to do 95% of the workout today, I only have to stop a few times to entertain Cullen or grab a toy that’s out of his reach. The rest of the time he is perfectly content watching and observing everything going on.

9:30 a.m. Yoga is done, and now it is time for a bottle.

9:50 a.m. We get in the car and drive around a while until Cullen falls asleep. It takes only a few minutes before he is out.

10:00 a.m. Workout #3 – I lift weights, play with Cullen when he wakes up (He only slept for about 30 minutes.) talk to friends. It wasn’t the most productive workout, but I am on a cut-back week, so I don’t usually lift weights on a down-week.

11:30 a.m. Lunch at Middle Way Cafe – I have a Lotus Bowl and a house iced tea.

Jo, one of my athletes, and I talk logistics for the Boston Marathon. This is her first time running it, and she qualified after her first marathon!

1:00 p.m. Arrive home. I change and feed Cullen, and he goes down for a nap. I do some computer work.

2:00 p.m. Cullen wakes up, so we FaceTime with Grandma.

2:45 p.m. Take 5 month picture. This pretty much sums up this past month of his life: drooling and reaching for everything!

3:00 p.m. I pick up around the house, take my vitamins (fish oil, pre-natal, iron, and vitamin D), and have a snack (dried apricots, homemade bread, and almonds).

3:30 p.m. Cullen and I play on his playmat and practice petting Sadie gently–without grabbing her fur.

3:45 p.m. I spend the next hour trying to get Cullen down for his third and final nap of the day. I don’t know why he fights it so much (he always has), but I just can’t get him to fall asleep. One reason is that I am trying to get him to fall asleep on his own without me having to nurse him to sleep. He would be so drowsy, and I would lay him down in his crib, but his eyes would immediately shoot open. After an hour, Craig is home, so I hand him off to Dad to try to get him to go to sleep. No luck for him either.

5:00 p.m. So instead we head to the dog park. As suspected, Cullen falls asleep in the Ergo about half-way through our walk.

6:15 p.m. We return home, and I pick up around the house and do some cleaning while Craig makes dinner.

7:15 p.m. Dinner time. (This is really late for us!) Craig made vegan burritos, which are awesome. I give Cullen his first bites of solid food–mashed banana!

I make myself a healthy dessert: a frozen banana pureed in the food processor, fresh strawberries, and cacao nibs.

8:00 p.m. Time to get Cullen ready for bed. We do a bath, get PJs on, make him laugh, brush his teeth, and read a book.

8:45 p.m. I work on this blog post.

9:45 p.m. I finish up this blog post. (This is why I don’t post very often–it just takes me too long!) I get ready for bed.

10:00 p.m. Lights out!