Hipes Happenings: Bathing Beauty

Charlotte gets a bath every evening around 8:30. I am so excited she is following nicely into a schedule and bedtime routine. It makes evenings so much easier for me! Trey goes to bed between 7:00 and 7:30 each evening. 7:00 if he didn't nap or has been playing hard outside and closer to 7:30 if he took a long nap or we were outside playing until 7:00! The light outside lasting longer has pushed dinner back a bit as we play outside or he and Jay work in the garden in the afternoons. Plus with an infant, dinner isn't always served at the same time every night so we have learned to be flexible with bedtime!

Charlotte usually takes her last nap of the day from 7:00-7:30 and then she is happy to play until her bedtime. This works out great because Trey is able to get the attention of both his parents during his bedtime routine and Charlotte gets to play on the floor because there is no big brother that might fall on her or poke her as she plays! She has a bath at 8:30 and then I take her upstairs, feed her and put her to bed around 9:00 in the crib. Most night she finds her thumb and puts herself to sleep and occasionally I have to go upstairs one time to give her the paci. The past week and half she has slept from 9:00-4:30 until she needs to eat. Last night she slept until 5:15! Some days she is up for about 45 minutes before she goes back to sleep again. But I don't mind because I am getting 6-7 hours of sleep myself, so getting up for the day at 5 am is no big deal. I can get a lot done in those early morning hours!

I think having her bath every night is a signal to her she is about to go to bed. Sometimes she is a little fussy while I get the bath ready, but as soon as we put her on the towel and start taking off her clothes she is happy as can be!

Charlotte is so big she has completely outgrown the basket part of the bathtub. Look how she fills up the whole tub!