The Morning Routine
Posted on August 8, 2008 - Filed Under Baby Life, Parenting, Shaving, Year One
Alex has fallen into a pretty consistent morning routine with me the past month.
I wake up at 5am, he wakes up at 5:30 just after I am out of the shower. From that point until I walk out the door we are quite the morning tandem, kind of like a warped super hero and his mini sidekick.
A few months ago I started “classic shaving” with a safety razor using old fashioned shaving cream with a mug and brush. The best shaving experience of my life and I wish I had started earlier. Alex enjoys the routine that goes along with this and is eager to help.
I am currently using a lemon-lime shaving cream that Alex goes crazy over. The minute I grab the tub of cream he let’s out a shriek of glee. He likes to hold it and smell the container and will do this for several minutes. He also enjoys watching me make the lather with the brush, and even wants a dab of it on his hand or cheek.
After that we move on to the tooth brushing phase of our morning and like a good sidekick, Alex is at the ready. I grab the tooth brush and he grabs the toothpaste, enjoying his turn at applying it to my tooth brush. As you can imagine, it usually ends up all over both of us.
When I am ready to get dressed for the day, Alex is right there with my shoes and socks. He runs into the bedroom and grabs them for me with a big smile and a little scream while running out of the bedroom. His willingness to help is awesome.
Alex likes to help out whenever he can. It’s an amazing thing to watch him force his way into helping and I hope it continues as he gets older but that is probably wishful thinking.
One of the things I have tried to do more of is getting down to his level while showing him something or talking to him. It’s one thing to stand up and try to talk to him while towering above him, and a whole new experience when I crouch down to his level. His reactions are like night and day. As we get older and colder, I think we sometimes forget what it was like to be small and not have things on our level. His entire world is what he can reach while standing on his tip toes, so bringing the “big boy” world to him is important.
At 21 months, Alex is more like a little boy than my “toddler” or “baby”. It is hard letting go of the baby stage because I’ve enjoyed that more than I ever thought possible, but I look forward to what lies ahead.
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