Subtlety

About a month ago Mike and I altered our daily schedule. We get up at 5am, and he leaves between 5:30 and 5:45am to go study before work. He then gets home around 5:30 or 6pm. He usually chats with me for a few minutes and then takes Ethan outside to play until dinner is ready. Then I have been leaving for meetings at 6:30 or 7pm. We try to go to bed between 8 and 9pm (try). I think the best thing about this new schedule is how little time we have in the evening to be tempted to just sit and watch TV.

Ethan loves when Mike gets home and loves getting to go outside. Ethan is constantly, all day, signing "shoes" to me, following me around the house with shoes, or banging his shoes on the door in a not so subtle way of requesting we go outside, and he never gets tired of being outside.

So, to tie these two antecdotes together, Ethan has caught on to our new schedule. Now, every night when Mike gets home, Ethan smiles, laughs, signs "shoes", and runs for his shoe bucket. The kid just loves being outside!
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