Jalen's First Week of Commute

Our little family finally moved into our new home in Bellevue last Saturday. Rick had a break from traveling for work and he was home for more than three nights in a row for the first time in about four weeks although it feels like it's been forever. We had no TV, no internet but Rick and I were happy to be back in our king sized bed. :) I had done enough unpacking in the kitchen and bathrooms so that we could have all of the essentials. Unfortunately, I came down with a cold that same day and had a hard time getting rest because Jalen woke up several times in the middle of the night. Nevertheless, spending our first night in our new home was a huge milestone.

Living at our new house means that now I have to take Jalen on my daily commute. Our schedule for the last week has been something like this:

5:00 am - first feeding of the morning, then put Jalen back to sleep
7:30 am - I wake up and eat breakfast, get ready dressed
8:30 am - wake Jalen up, feed him
9:00 am - leave the house
9:20 am - drop Jalen off at his grandma's
9:30 am - get to work
12:00 pm - feed Jalen at his grandma's
6:00 pm - get off work and feed Jalen, eat dinner at his grandma's
7:30 pm - go home
9:00 pm - feed Jalen and put him to sleep
11:00pm - I go to bed

This is the ideal schedule. Some days, Jalen decides to wake up at 7am. So I give him to his daddy so that he can either be entertained or be soothed to go back to sleep. Some nights, Jalen wakes up at 3am or 4am and I just go and try to put him back to sleep without feeding him. I decided to give up the scheduled midnight meeting and just see how long he can last after being fed at 9pm. When it goes well, he'll sleep until almost 5am which is 7.5 hours! I hope he will develop a habit of it.

Here's Jalen all bundled up and ready to go. Look at his penguin hat! The feet keep his ears warm!