Bit of an odd day today. Leo and I were both exhausted by the weekend so I tried to engineer a solid morning of nap time for him and freedom for me. It didn't work at all. I gave up and headed out with him in the sling and did some errands. I totally lost track of time and had to really hurry to get us back and out the house in time for swimming class.
The additional thing that slowed us down was yet another nappy leak. We have been using the nappy subscription service Lillydoo. More environmentally friendly than normal nappies, delivered to your door each month and only slightly more expensive than Pampers. Trouble is if they've leaked a few times at vital moments. To be fair to them it always when they're pretty full and being squashed when Leo is in the sling. Pampers have never leaked, so regrettably I've cancelled the subscription. We tried environment, sorry.
All this meant Leo was fed a bottle whilst on the train and walking to the pool. Obviously he didn't appreciate the rush. By the time I was changed to swim he was pretty angry. I got him calm and showered and we made it into the pool on time. All stress forgotten we had a really nice swim.
I was the only Dad in the class and he was again sparred the traumatic dunking.
Having not slept all morning I thought he'd have a great afternoon nap, I was wrong. I eventually convinced him to sleep at 16:00 but he only lasted 35 minutes. Waking up screaming. Bad dream or maybe frustration with the lingering cold. Who knows.
We past the time by reading a couple Julia Donaldson books and playing around, before the evening ritual. Now totally convinced he'd be asleep in minutes of getting his sleeping bag on I began to plan dinner in my head. Again I was totally wrong. He didn't sleep until his Mum came home at 20:00 ish. He wasn't even in a bad mood, doing his best puppy dog expression as she arrived. I was shattered though. A day with out any proper breaks is intense. The hardest thing about parental leave is being totally at the whim of someone else. However hard you try to plan and engineer a day, if the little one doesn't like the plan then your doing something else.