What's the time, Mr Wolf?...

...I have no idea.

Since becoming a Stay-at-Home-Dad I've basically stopped wearing a watch.

There's no point. I wake up when Emilia wakes up; I feed her when she's hungry (normally about the same times every day) and I put her back to bed when she's tired.

I had an app on the iPad that I would put timings of when she did certain things (feed/sleep/nappy-change) and it would remind me when the next one was due however it only lasted 2 weeks before I realised i was pre-empting it anyway so it seemed that we had a good routine going.

There are obviously a few times when I need to be somewhere at a certain time but most of those are routine things, like baby-group or similar and they're not overly fussed if you're 10-20 minutes late anyway as they're a drop-in thing.
If it's an appointment, my phone reminds me 30 minutes before I need to leave the house which is normally enough time to check for a last-minute nappy change or bottle, collect everything, dress us both and head out of the house.

Last night i did check my phone when I was woken by a grizzling baby. It was 01:00 exactly! She then spent the next hour and a half refusing to / unable to go back to sleep.
At first I thought it was because her nappy was wet, so I changed it.
Then I thought she might be hungry, so I fed her (she hadn't eaten properly yesterday and was a bottle short by the time she went to bed)
Then Emma thought she might be cold so we put an extra layer on her.
She has a bit of a blocked nose at the moment so we've got a Calpol Diffuser plugged in however it has a built-in night light (well, I say nightlight, it's more like the blinding light of a nuclear explosion) so i unplugged that but then she became bunged up again and couldn't sleep!
Emma eventually took matters into her own hands and went old-school. She wet a flannel, added Olbas oil and left it on the radiator to evaporate. No light and no blocked nose = sleeping baby.

Thank you Emma.

Emilia is now sleeping again. I've decided baby group is a bad idea as she's not well and tired so we're going to have a day of sleeping and reading stories.

Hopefully she'll be better soon and we can go back to normal.