Doing, not writing.

Darn.

I guess I've been so busy doing things daily that I don't often have time to get over here and write much about it. Either that, or I can't come up with much to say about what I do -- I usually only get a few things done each day on either end of baby-care.

Today, not too different from most days, went something like this:

• Baby woke me up at 8:30
• We played downstairs until 10:15
• At 11:00 she fell asleep again.
• I went to the gym while she slept, and got home around 1:00
• She had woken up around 12:00, and played with gramma for a while. When I got home, she was tired again.
• I fed her and tried to put her back down for more sleep, but she just wanted to play more in bed with me.
• We got back up, and came downstairs to find gramma ready to run out for some shopping.
• We went to Toys R Us, Target, Home Depot, and Borders (We only went to Borders for coffee because Calina was sleeping in the sling through Target & Home Depot, and it was in the same plaza.)
• We got home around 5:00
• I wrapped some Christmas presents while Calina played with Gramma
• Colin came home at 7:30.
• I made dinner while he played with Calina.
• We all ate around 8:00
• We watched half an episode of Wonder Pets
• Calina got cranky and tired at 9:00 and went to bed around 9:30.
• I got caught up on some computer chores, read my email, and sat down to write a blog entry. It's almost midnight now, so... time for bed?

I guess that's life right now. Gym, shopping, cooking. That's really all the time I had my hands to myself sans-baby. I did a bit of baking over the last week, too.

It's unbelievable how short these days are, really. I spend quite a lot of time right now putting Calina to bed at various times of the day... She's in a transition between needing 3 naps and only needing 2. If she only gets 2, she tends to be cranky, unless one was at least 2.5 hours long. And it's getting harder and harder to help her fall asleep for that middle of the day nap... So a lot of time is spent TRYING to get her to go to sleep until I just give up and decide she's not really tired enough.

I love her to pieces, but I'm really excited for her to gain a little independence. She's starting to show signs of getting good at playing by herself, but she's still super clingy and needs me on hand at all times -- just in case she needs me for something, I guess. :) It's super fun to watch her play, though, and to see what she finds amusing. Like picking at the carpet to find a speck of fuzz to put in her mouth. Or using both hands to shake a rattling object that's only in one of them. Or suddenly dashing off away from me toward a doorway she shouldn't go out. And riding in her stroller behind Myles's swishing tail.

She's stirring upstairs, and I have to run. That's all for now. ::sigh::