Playing In Her Room

Lorelei still needs (or takes) quite some sleep (which gives me time to blog). This is what my daddy-days look like these days:
7:00 I get up and take a shower
7:15 I get Tobias up, put some clothes out for him and most of the times dress him (although he is perfectly capable of doing that himself, and he told me this morning that he will do that when he is five :-))
7:25 I get Lorelei up and dress her
7:35 We have breakfast, I make Tobias' lunch and prepare his schoolbag
8:00 Tobias brushes his teeth while I comb his hair
8:15 Getting everybody ready to take Tobias to school
8:25 We go to school, these days, me and Lorelei on my bike and Tobias on his
8:35 Tobias is in school, Lorelei and I head back home
8:45 We get home, and take our coats off. I usually try to do some cleaning up downstairs, get a load of laundry going and then play with Lorelei. We usually play for somwhere betwee 45 minutes and an hour before she starts rubbing her eyes. Sometimes we play downstairs, but lately we have been up in her room a lot. We play, sing, read, goof off. This morning, she started rubbing her eyes and crawled to her bed. She stuck one arm through the bars and patted her mattress. It seems unlikely, but I am quite sure it was a deliberate message to me saying: "I want to go in my bed and sleep.". I put her down and she is still sleeping.
10:00 Lorelei is in bed and I do some stuff, drink some coffee and, blog :-)

She will probably wake up sometime between noon and 13:00, at which time we will have lunch. After lunch I need to do some shopping. Depending on the weather I will go into town or just to the grocery store. After that it is almost time to pick Tobias up again. School is out at 15:15. Usually Lorelei has a snack before we go. When we come back and play a little bit, Lorelei is tired again and goes down for another hour or so. That gives me some time to play with Tobias, unless he has a friend over....

Well, by the time Lorelei wakes up again I have to start dinner and before you know it the day is over. As you can see I sometimes capture one of those precious moments of playtime in Lorelei's room! Adorable, right?


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