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Year Three, Day 194: Baby Log

I had a full Baby Gracie shift today!  I spent the night at my daughter's house because she had to leave by 6:30 a.m. Thankfully, I did not have choir practice last night. So I taught a few students and then hopped on the Max to Cascades Station. Had a leisurely cup of "Peach Tranquility" tea at Starbucks. Even had a few moments to contemplate life before I opened my Lyft app and ordered a car to drive me across the bridge into Vancouver.

I had a lovely driver! He was from Ukraine.  He is a veterinarian. His wife is an MD. But his license is not yet valid in the U.S. and his English is pretty rough, so he is driver for Lyft until he can get licensed. I told him driving for Lyft would be a good way to practice his English. We spent a good ten minutes on the word "veterinarian", which he was pronouncing as "WETRONARIAN" lol!

Baby Gracie slept very well last night. I told my daughter to leave some milk for me and I would take care of her early morning feeding. Which I did.  2:00 a.m. I fed her, rocked her and then put her back in her crib and she fell promptly asleep.  Such a good baby!

I decided to log our activities today.  My daughter is trying to keep her on a good sleeping schedule at night, which means more awake time during the day.

I feel like I put in 8 hours at the factory! Hard work, but well worth it.  Babies are little miracles.

Here is our baby log for today:

BABY LOG, Wednesday, 11/22/2017
  • 7:00 a.m. Gracie wakes up. Change diaper. Drinks 1/2 bottle. 
  • 7:15 a.m. Burp baby. Rock baby.
  • 7:30 a.m. Gracie takes nap. (Grandma Zita takes nap too!)
  • 9:00 a.m. Gracie wakes up. Drinks 1/2 bottle. 
  • 9:30 a.m. Change diaper and put new outfit on Baby Gracie.
  • 9:40 a.m. Baby exercises on blanket on floor, including tummy time.
  • 9:45 a.m. Strapped Baby Gracie in her boinger chair. Grandma hooped!
  • 9:55 a.m. Changed diaper.
  • 10:00 a.m. Read poetry to Baby Gracie.
  • 10:10 a.m. Gracie finishes second bottle. Starts to fuss. Burped baby.  Still fussy.
  • 10:30 a.m. Danced with Baby Gracie. She falls asleep and takes a 10 minute nap.
  • 10:40 a.m. Baby Gracie wakes up.  Fussy.  Put her on blanket on floor and did baby exercises and massage.
  • 10:45 a.m. Danced some more. Baby Gracie falls asleep and takes 1 hour nap!
  • 11:45 a.m. Baby Gracie wakes up. Change diaper
  • 12:10 p.m. Baby Gracie starts third bottle.  Fusses. Burp her.  Dance with her. She settles down.  Finishes bottle. Is still acting hungry. But need to hold off feeding until her mom gets home.  So we dance and then I rock her, put her on blanket and talk to her. And dance some more!
  • 1:30 p.m. Mama gets home! Gracie smiles!  Time for lunch. And I pack up and head for the bus.  It was a very good day!




And now I am off to teach some students!
Talk to you tomorrow!  

Love,

Zita



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