DIL: Parents in the Air Force

A day in the Life for you today. And in this day in the Life you will see two parents who are active duty in the US Air Force. I thought it was appropriate being that today's Veterans Day. But they have a little guy named Colton who's four and a half months old and to hang out with them today. You'll even see me show up a little bit throughout their day too. I think he's starting to wake up. Let's go watch.

Good morning. Are you ready to eat? Good morning.

My name is Aaron Moore and this.

Is my son Colton Moore. He is four and a half months old and the first thing we do in the morning is breastfeed. Today we'll be doing A day in our life so we'll see how it goes. Good morning. Did you snack him last night? Are you hungry?

So it's been about 120 minutes since he woke up. So we are going to do our.

Nighttime nap routine which starts with a diaper change. I see a red bird looking at me. Red bird, redbird. What do you see? I see a yellow duck looking at me. Our Quickbook.

We turn on our sound machine.

Are you okay? And by the time we walked downstairs he was sleeping.

And now it's time for breakfast. This is my husband Chris. He is making us chorizo tacos this morning and he does most of the cooking in this household, mainly because my cooking is terrible.

Hi. Did you sleep good?

Yeah. Gotten a little bit of taste of our morning. I will give you a little introduction about our family. So I am a physician assistant in the Air Force and my husband's also.

In the Air Force.

Hi everybody and happy Veterans Day. I am Erin Moore and I'm a captain in the Air Force. I've been in for about 12 years. I enlisted when I was 18 years old and my job was medical admin. I was able to school while enlisted and I was fortunate enough to be accepted into the inter service physician assistant program. I've been a PA for about two and a half years now and my husband's also in the Air Force. He's been in for 12 years as well and he is a CT technologist. So today we just wanted to say happy Veterans Day and thank you to all the veterans. So since Colton Woke up at 10:20, I'm going to try to put him down at around 12:20. I try to keep our wake up windows right at the 120 mark and then he usually take an hour nap and then we wake.

At. Good morning. Did you have a Good night. Is it time to eat again?

All right.

Eat.

Again. Colton, do you want milk? Milk? Can you try some milk? Yeah. All right.

As you can see, the bassinet is in his nursery, and he sleeps in his bassinet. Usually at nighttime, we move it kind of of in the middle of the floor, as you saw this morning. And then he takes all of his naps in the. Decided as a family that we wanted him in the nursery. And it's been working for us.

Fell asleep on our walk, so we're just gonna still do his routine as.

Much as we can.

We'll probably skip the book. Lost his binky. So he's trying to self soothe with his thumb. As the naps go on, they seem to get a little harder for him to fall asleep by himself, but we'll see if he can do it. It's been over 15 minutes since we laid him down. He's still not sleeping, but he's not crying. So just gonna leave him there and see if he goes to sleep.

Lake Tahoe.

Everyone knew it was going to be really cold. Good morning. Hi. You didn't want to sleep very long, huh? Another feeding after a nap.

So for dinners, we'll usually sit over here while Colton watches us in the sea.

The cutest in that bath. Okay, I want to pop on here because Erin is about to put Colton down for bedtime. And as I watched this, I went, that's interesting. And that's why we do it these day in the lives. Every baby is so different, and there's no right or wrong way of doing it. Every family kind of finds what works best for them. So in my mind, I'm like, okay, Colton Woke up around 4:30. I put him down around 6:45, about 2 hours and 15 minutes later. Probably do a bedtime feeding before that. And then I would do a dream feeding around 9, 9:30, about half to three hours later. And then let him sleep for the night. But watch. Aaron does it differently. And Colton sleeps 11 hours after that feeding. He does great. And this works for their family. And so let's go watch.

So we just got done with bath.

Came up here, put lotion on, putting.

Jammies on and brush his hair and.

Then do a little book and we'll feed.

Okay. So this is his last nap slash bedtime. It's the hardest time that he has. And so I still put him down in his crib. And then we do what I do, dream feed at eight, and then that's when I put him in his food. So we're gonna try to get him down as best we can for this last little nap until I'm just dream feed.

Okay. He's awake. He's not crying. But I might go put in his binky to see if he'll go to sleep. Binky is in, and hopefully he will make it into eight. It's 8:30ish. And we got done with the dream feed about 10 minutes ago. He he was not wanting to be put down. He was a little fussy, and I was able to kind of calm him down. He's now in his new he's relaxed, he's not crying. He's gonna go to bed, and we'll say her good night. Good night, Colton, love. Colton is asleep. So now my husband and I are gonna watch some Netflix and go to sleep ourselves. Good night.