Bedtime Routine

"Mama, I you bubber-fye!!"

 Sometimes I could just eat this girl!  

I thought I would right down some of her crazy bedtime routine, because I am sure it will end all too soon.  :)  Here is small insight into our naptime and nightly routine:

Naptime, she sleeps in our bed so that Ben can play in their room:

while dragging at least three stuffed dogs and her favorite purple blanket:

Naomi: Mama!  I need YOUR pillow!!!

I move my pillow to the middle of the bed (it is the best pillow in the house) as she jumps three times and lands on the pillow, and puts her head down.

N: Sing Baby Beluga and Tih-Tle my Back!!

L: Okay, Naomi, that was our last song, now you need to close your eyes and go to sleep.

N: Lay down with me PIIIEEEE (five) mih-mih!! Tih-tle my belly.

I tickle her for 15 seconds...

N: Tih-tle my two arms! (all said with her eyes closed.)

I tickle her for 15 seconds...

N: Tih-tle my two legs, my pie (five) toes, my two feet, my pie fingers, my side, my other side.... etc.

If she does open her eyes, she just grins as if all is right with the world, and then closes them again.

L: Okay, Naomi, I am all done, sleep tight!

N: I need my old boo (her word for dog) and my new boo and my huge boo!!  

L: Okay, here you go!

N: No Mama!  I need to see their FACES!!  

I arrange all dogs so that their faces are facing hers.

N: Blanket Mama!  Cover my arms, but not my ear, but it can touch my chin.  And don't close the door all the way!!!!  

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Bedtime is much the same, except that it involves teeth brushing, and pajamas (if we can force her to put them on... she much prefers to sleep neh-neh!), stories and more singing.  Then bed...

However, usually within 15-20 minutes, from downstairs we hear the squeak of her getting out of bed and then her great trek from her bed to ours, and back and forth about 4 times to gather all her stuffed dogs and favorite blankets.  Then all is quiet again... And when we head to be a few hours later this is what we find (minus the passie now!!!  YAY!!.  :)

As Andrew often tells her... "It is a good thing you are so cute!!" :)