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Love this. C is 21 months and we are also out and about most of the time. Play dates, gym day care, music and gymnastics class. In the winter, we will sack up and pay to go to indoor "play spaces" otherwise when it is nice out, we will go to the park or take a walk in the neighborhood. At home, we do art stuff (crayons, markers, painting, dot art) play with cars and balls and blocks and eat A LOT (growing boy...). We also jump on the bed a lot and play excessive amounts of "chase".

LO is only 4.5 months old but she is already getting bored with me & our toys. She really enjoyed going to baby story time at the library - I wish they had it more often! Now that the weather is nicer I try to take her outside at least once a day - even if it's just laying her on a towel in the yard for tummy time.

I do think it's easier when they're older. DS is 17 months and we get out of the house every morning.

Mon: My Gym free play and run errands
Tue: My Gym class
Wed: Barnes and noble story time (but lately my gma has been watching him wed mornings)
Thur: usually go to the park. We have a park walking distance so I usually take the dog with us.
Fri: library story time

I'm somewhat new to staying home so I'm trying to meet other moms that I can do play dates with. Meeting a mom I met at my gym tomorrow at the park! Yay!

We keep busy in the morning. Come home and have lunch then DS goes down for his nap between 12-1. DH is home by 4 pm so the days seem to to by fast!

In addition to things that others have already said, we have memberships to the zoo and children's museum, which my daughter (29 months) loves. We go to one at least once a week. We started going to children's museum when she was 6 months (ours has a great area for babies and toddlers), and she got interested in the zoo at around 12 months.

My daughter is 10.5 months old and naps twice a day. Our days look like this:

6-7 wake up (she is usually up by 7 at the latest, but if not I wake her then)
nurse & snuggles
breakfast
play time (usually we read books, and then she plays by herself in her room while I drink my coffee or clean up a bit)

Nap time (2 hours after wake up)

After nap, we usually try to get out. We haven't for a week because she was sick and now we're snowed in....ah!

Our weekly rhythm is this:
Monday- Groceries
Tuesday- walk or play date or we go to a music group/visit a friend about an hour away (if this is the case, she naps in the car on the way there)
Wednesday- story time
Thursday- playgroup at the community center (usually)
Friday- Waldorf school

After our outing/activity we have lunch around noon, and then its time for nap again

After nap until dinner we either go for a walk or a run (I do this immediately after she wakes up so that she doesn't fall asleep again and ruin bedtime) and play. I either wear her or she empties out the Tupperware cabinet while I cook dinner.

6:00 dinner, then bath, then naked play time, then bedtime

If we can't find an activity we sometimes go to the fabric store, and she gets to feel all the fabric on the bolt while I browse. I also like to check out the consignment shop occasionally. We also go check out different libraries in neighboring towns. They often have fun play spaces that she can explore to mix it up.

If we are bored or running out of activities to do, here are some of my go-tos for in the house:
-Water play: I fill up a heavy pot (cast iron dutch oven) with a couple inches of water, put it on a towel, and give her some kitchen utensils / cups/ whatever to play with

-Mail: She will spend a solid 10-15 minutes looking at catalogs with pictures of people in them and tearing them up.

-The Laundry game: She takes everything out of the clean laundry basket, and plays with it while I fold it and tell her what I'm folding (is this daddy's tiny shirt? NO! Its baby's tiny shirt! etc., etc.)

-Cleaning! I put her on my back and sing songs and dance while we clean. She usually really enjoys this (except when I vacuum. She's terrified of the vacuum).

-Random new "toys"- a favorite is metal canning jar rings inside an old tissue box. Take them out, put them in. Metal spoons in a Tupperware container. Anything in a bag (a bunch of magazines, etc). Shredding paper towels. Paper bags.

I am trying to get her to more activities with other babies, but a lot of that is just going to have to wait until she is on one nap a day. The story time usually works well, but this week she slept through it. Morning nap is tough- when she drops it we will be able to get out and around kids a lot more.
In the summer we will have a parking pass at the local beaches (we live on a lake), a membership at a local sustainability research farm (they have a kids' farm with lots of animals and activities), and our community garden plot. And playgrounds!