The First Daddy-Daughter Day

Yesterday was my first daddy-daughter day with Julia.  What is daddy-daughter day?  Well as you might expect it is a day that Julia and I get to spend together without Alyssa (aka Mom).

So I have to admit that I was a little nervous about my first daddy-daughter day.  Why you ask?  Well mainly it was the feedings, so far Julia has not been happy taking a bottle.  There tends to be a lot of crying and screaming, some of it even from Julia.  I was also a little nervous because she and I haven’t spent that much time alone together.

Alyssa headed out for her day around 9:30 officially starting daddy-daughter day.  When Alyssa left Julia was taking her morning nap.  Julia slept as peacefully as she ever does until about 10:30am.  Then the moment of truth, would she take a bottle?  I had it already to go and to my great surprise she gulped it right down!  There was very little fussing and no crying.  After that we played for a while doing some tummy time and other games on her blanket.  Then it was off on our adventure.

First we went to target to pick up a fan for her room.  She picked out a small black fan that would really help make her room more comfortable.  Once we had that we headed out to lunch.  She decided that she really wanted a good Rueben.  So we headed to Pat Troy's in Old Town.  It was such a nice day we sat outside and enjoyed our sandwich.

From there we headed down to water to find a quite spot for Julia’s mid-afternoon snack.  We found a great little spot right by the water where we could watch the boats pass.  We stayed there for quite a while and even got to see one boat tow in another boat that had run out of gas.  All in all it was a very exciting day.  By this point it was starting to get late around 3pm so we decided it was time to head home.

At home Julia decided she was ready for her big meal of the day and ate about 4.5 oz of milk from the bottle!  This was on top of the 1.5 oz she ate an hour before watching the boats.  I had no idea she ate so much.  Once she finished this we played a little more followed by a short nap until Mom came home around 5pm.

All in all it was a very fun day so much so that we have decided to do it at least once a month.  It was very rewarding for Julia and I.  Oh and Alyssa and fun out doing her own thing for the day too.