@Lisa – I have been looking at past time logs from Alex’s babyhood and oh my goodness. Yes. So glad not to be living through that right now.

@Rhoda – oh, Captain Underpants has been in my world for a while…my two older boys read it too. I just find the concept of my kid having me read a graphic novel to him out loud kind of funny – so much of a graphic novel is about seeing the picture and the text simultaneously, and of course if you are hearing someone read it it’s not quite as tightly knit…but that is what he wanted me to read!

Yes, the fact that he sleeps past 7:30 is significant!! I have had to accept that our days are going to start early because they HAVE to start early during the week! But I look forward to a time when they have a different sleep schedule on the weekends!! It’s a GOOD day when both boys sleep until 6am. 🙂 Today, both boys had to be woke up around 6-6:30. But just watch – tomorrow they will be up earlier when they don’t need to be!

I remember how Alex was such an early riser for years so I am very happy that Henry isn’t!!!

@Lisa – if we start earlier, bedtime lasts two hours. He is rarely up before 7:30, though, so there’s that!
And there’s nothing wrong with liking a good spreadsheet 🙂

Henry goes to bed so much later that my littles! But our days start sooo early since we leave the house at 6:45 on week days. So the 2yo is in bed at 7 and the 4.5yo at 7:30-8. But then I have a good 1-1.5 hours of couple/alone time before I go to bed. I know that will go away as the kids schedules shift, so I will enjoy it while it lasts! Tracking my time has been fun so far. Since I try to stick to categories that can be easily summed with excel functions, I lose some of the granularity. But it’s still cool to see how I spent my 168 hours!