Week in the Life 2011: Friday

The day didn’t start off so well. At 1 a.m., Avery woke up with a potty accident. Not only did she wet her pajamas (her last clean pair), she also wet her bed (her last clean set of sheets). In case you didn’t figure it out, today was laundry day! She’s had a few accidents lately, so we’ve been trying to get her back to going potty in the potty!

So at 1 a.m., I had to create some makeshift pajamas with her regular clothes and makeshift sheets with some baby blankets.

Then I couldn’t go back to sleep, thanks to feeling a little sick and having a headache. So I finally fell asleep at 6 a.m. Then Avery woke up at 7:15 a.m. Why couldn’t she sleep in late today?!

When Chris left for work around 7:45 a.m., I got up and took a shower. After my shower, we changed Avery’s clothes…

…and ate breakfast. Avery asked to eat dry Cheerios and a Pop-Tart in the living room. That usually means that she dumps the Cheerios on the couch and eats them from there.

Today was trash day. On Thursday nights, Chris and I collect the trash together from the house, then Chris puts to trash out in the driveway.

One of the highlights of Avery’s Fridays is watching the trash truck pick up our trash can and dump it in the back of the truck.

Thanks to modern technology, I have the pleasure of working from home on Fridays. Can you tell why I love my job so much! (Plus, my boss is my best friend of more than 20 years, and my other co-worker is her mom!) I can access my office computer from home and get to everything I need. It’s nice to still have a day at home with Avery but get some work done in a leisurely way and make a little money, too! It’s a good thing I didn’t have to go to the office today because I was so tired and just plain out of it. I didn’t really have to be running on all cylinders at home today, and that’s a good thing!

And here’s my co-worker at home on Fridays.

It’s also nice to be able to do some housework while I’m doing office work. Today I did three loads of laundry: one white, one dark and Avery’s clothes and sheets.

Avery usually entertains herself while I work at home. Today she watched some of her favorite TV shows, played with her babies and colored a lot.

Avery really loves to color and draw. Here is some of her work today. On the left is a sailboat. On the right is an apple.

For some reason, she doesn’t like the white crayon. She dumps out all of the crayons, then puts the white one back in the bag.

I love how she holds crayons in her tiny little hands!

Pretty soon it was lunch time. Avery ate a pasta meal, a stick of cheese, a Capri Sun drink and mandarin oranges. I just ate cheese and crackers.

Then we both took a two-hour nap from 1 to 3 p.m. After that, I worked some more and finished the laundry, and Avery played a lot.

Then at 4 p.m., Chris surprised us and came home early! Thank goodness because I was ready for the second shift to relieve me.

While Daddy was lying on the floor and playing with Avery, she put a blanket on him and started to play some bedtime lullabies on one of her music books.

We wanted an easy dinner tonight, so we went with a frozen pizza.

Pizza is one of Avery’s favorite foods!

After dinner, Daddy and Avery played with a felt farm book. This book has felt farm animals that your put in different pictures throughout the book.

Then it was time to empty the dishwasher.

All through dinner, we heard a lot of thunder. Just before it was time to get Avery ready for bed, we finally heard the rain.

It’s been so dry lately that we were really excited to hear rain on the roof. So we went out on the front porch to watch the storm.