7 Feb 2010Tags: chores, housework, illness, outside, park, routines, sickness, teething
We took Riley to the park yesterday. I think the photo shows that she was a little bored.
Due to seemingly unending bouts of teething, illness and my exhaustion, I have gotten out of the habit of getting out of the house with the munchkin. There was a time where I would always, or almost always, take her down to the park in the afternoon for a run around.
But I’ve lapsed into other priorities, boring, menial and somewhat necessary. Doing the laundry, cleaning the play area (destruction zone) and painting the house. But nonetheless, it’s still a very bad habit, or group of habits. There’s not enough time in the day for sure. I can’t physically get everything done. But active playtime should be pretty high up on the list and recently it has been sidelined.
The benefits of making it too the park (other than the giggles, which are awesome) is that we both get a bit of exercise, she sleeps later (6:30 this morning instead of before 5), and it takes the edge of that clingy period before dinner. But really all that isn’t really here of there. Nobody likes being stuck in the house all the time, and I’d like to foster her love of the outdoors, not ignore it just because I’ve got stuff to do.
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I’m somewhat worried about this. I’m SOOOO an indoor person, but I don’t want Alexa to be like that…at least not as a little kid. I will have to make a real effort to get out as often as possible once she’s old enough to care. Makes me really nervous about next winter…as I HATE the cold! What do you do to make winter play less miserable for you? Or do you like cold weather? Was Riley even old enough last winter for you to have to deal with it?
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To be fair, in Australia, it’s not much of a winter – I guess on average it would be around 10 degrees celsius (so about 50 F) Sometimes it’ll get down to 0 over night but really it’s very mild.
Last Winter she had only just started walking, but I did tend to just rug her up and either go down to the park or put her in the pram for a walk – because it was a bit more snug in there.
But I don’t think we have to deal with anywhere near the cold weather in the Northern Hemisphere.
Soooo NOT fair! I would love love love to live somewhere where I could go out and enjoy the outdoors year round. Cannot wait to move, because honestly I don’t know that I could be a proper parent to Alexa when she needs to run and play…and all I want to do is hide under the covers with the heat blasting.
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