Coffee, please!

Little H has been so generous as to wake us up at 5:30am in the recent weeks, or maybe it's been months at this point. It's hard to keep track of time these days. No matter what time he goes to bed (usually it varies by no more than an hour), his internal alarm goes off at the same time in the morning telling him, and then us, it's time to start the day. He is bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. I, on the other hand, am quite the opposite. With a baby on my hip and a coffee in my hand, we make our way to the living room. He plays while I wait for the coffee to do its magic.

I can't really complain though. The early morning wake-ups have been happening since he started sleeping straight through the night... so it's a trade off. It was a long 9 months of waking up every night in the middle of the night, so that fact that he sleeps until 5:30 now (sometimes 6:00, if we're lucky) is a HUGE success. I never thought the day would come.

However, this means that my previous schedule of working out at home before he wakes up is out the window. I've had to shift my workout schedule a bit. I've been doing a lot more strength training at the gym, which has worked in my favor since there's a lot more I can do there than at home. That means I've been doing less cardio at the gym, but have been running outside with Little H instead (and really enjoying it). Since I also like to incorporate yoga and pilates into my workouts, I try to fit that in a couple of mornings a week while he takes his first nap. Switching between cardio, strength training and yoga/pilates keeps me from getting bored.

I've quickly learned that you can't get too comfortable in any type of schedule when you have a baby. Just when I think I have something figured out, the little guy has to go and change it up on me. So we adapt and adjust. I'm sure my "new" schedule will soon be my "old" schedule, depending on how Little H decides to surprise me next.

And he's full of lots of surprises!