Ninja schedule

The nice surprise of 8 ½-hour sleep that el ninja gave me on the mother’s day was in fact an one-off thingy. Yet, he has slept longer now, almost through the night (on average 5-6 hours), which I am pretty content. Here’s more or less el ninja’s daily routine:

6:00 a.m. to 6:30 a.m.: He wakes up with a HUGE smile, “I want to play!” I hold him for a bit or the nana (if she is around) takes him out of the crib to start the day. He is definitely a morning person, coming from my side of family or his grandpa (definitely not from his dad or grandma, who usually takes 45 minutes to get up to speed in the morning and coffee is the requirement).

6:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.: I get ready for the day and play with him at the same time - read him a story (or a few), put him to work out by himself in the turtle-gym, and we look in the mirror and smile. I either have BBC or Discovery Kid on so he looks while working out. Then I make him a formula and he passes out for a nap.

9:30 a.m.: He wakes up from the nap. And if I am around, I take him with me for errands – he loves going out – always observing and looking at people and almost always he passes out while being carried in the kagaroo. If the nana is here, it usually involves more gym time and tummy time and lots of “paseos” around home.

12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.: Another “tete” and he goes for another short nap.

2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.: More play time for el ninja – yet, this is the time when I usually feel the sleepiest. He normally has his first pupu of the day – time to wash his culito as well.

5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.: He wants to eat and then we play again – whichever he feels like – stories, kick-boxing, or tummy time - just to delay his bedtime (to reach my goal: 9 pm)

7:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.: Bath time!!! One of el ninja’s favorite activities now – he enjoys being in the water and doing his aquacise. Now he’s all clean with fresh PJ – ready to go to bed. With a huge bottle mixed with formula and cereal and classic music in the background, el ninja is winding down after a long tiring day. The “energizer tiger” soon runs out of the batteries.

2:00 a.m. – 3:00 a.m.: He wakes up and eats. This is the most difficult hour for my papi and I. Most of the time, mami does the duty.

5:00 a.m.: The previous feeding doesn’t usually last long because he is half-asleep. He normally passes out whiling eating and never finishes the bottle. So by this early morning hour, he is awake. I feed him with my teta and he falls back to sleep again.

As much as I want to be a “tiger mom”, el ninja’s schedule is not rigid at all, except for the bed time routines. Simply because it is too difficult to keep a rigid schedule with work and impossible to “educate” a nana who is in her sixties and has raised my papi and now raising my ninja.

(el ninja with his nana)