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daily/weekly rhythms with baby?

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I have a very precocious 6 month old who is crawling, cruising, eating solids, signing, and saying a few words. She love love loves music (daddy plays classical piano, guitar, drums, I sing to her ad take her to a full moon mama singing group etc.) I have just read "Heaven on Earth" and was very inspired, a lot of the ideas felt right to me, but most of it is geared toward 2-6 year olds. I particularly like the idea of a daily rhythm/weekly rhythm (as opposed to rigid schedule opr helter skelter) I think with the way dd gets easily overstimulated it would help her. But how can I tailor it to a 6 month old..I want something I can build on as she gets older. I particularly wonder about bedtime, we already do a bath which she loves...also what songs/rhymes are best for different transitions throughout the day? I singher a goodmorning song as well which she likes. I noticed while running a daycare how great songs are for transitions and setting a mood. Bombard me with resources or your own sample daily and weekly rhythms. Simplicity and flow are what I'm hoping to achieve for her and me!
Side note: I have been really de-clutterizing our home as well and sorting through very bright plastic or battery operated toys that seem to also get ehr agitated and I think the clearer space helps. She seems to enjoy crawling over to her toy baskets and pulling them out and searching for what she wants.
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I think that first year or so is a great opportunity to get your own rhythms and routines in place-- housekeeping, cooking, things like that. It's also a good time to work on bath, bed, morning, and meal rhythms and transitions. You can work in story times, with little songs to lead you in and out of that, and things like that.

I can honestly say that I am still using rhythms and routines that we started when our first was a baby, 11 years ago! And my favorite songs and rhymes are actually ones we made up ourselves. There's also a great book called "Catch Me and Kiss Me and Say It Again" that has some great little nursery rhymes to use with babies' daily routines.
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