Wake up, look at the clock and wish I could stay in bed longer:
Husband leaves at 5:45 a.m., toddler wakes up at 5:46 a.m.:
Give myself a quick pep talk, Hunger Games style:
Spend the next hour and a half entertaining said toddler and somehow trying to get dressed and make my lunch. There's usually a lot of this:
With me doing this:
Cause taking five minutes to get my shit together makes my toddler feel like this:
Then when it's finally time to head to daycare I'm like:
I wish the drive to daycare was more like this:
But in reality, I'm asked a million questions that always start with the word WHY:
Get to daycare, drop her off, pull out of the driveway and I'm like:
Head to work. I'm really lucky to have a job I enjoy. Most days this is me:
Then when it's time to leave and pick her up I get excited because I miss her. Drive back to daycare and hope when we see each other it will be like this:
But it's pretty much always like this:
And I have to practically do this to get her to go with me into the car:
Which once again results in this:
But usually once we are in the car for a few minutes she gets like this:
Then we get home and she sees daddy and gets crazy excited like this:
And is all like this towards mama:
Then we play for awhile till it's dinnertime. Sometimes, I'm just so in awe of how cool she is and how fast she's growing up that I stare at her like this:
Then we sit down for dinner and she's all like this about her food:
And we have to be super encouraging for her to get a full dinner in:
But all she really wants to do is this:
After dinner comes my favorite part of the day. Snuggles on the couch before bedtime:
Then when it's time to brush teeth and get pj's on she's all like:
When we tuck her into bed and shut her door, both the hubz and I are like:
And then the hubs does this:
While I'm all about this:
And then we get up the next day to do it all again and wouldn't have it any other way! I love my little family so much that I feel like this:
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