After 10 minutes, she was out. Only 155 miles left to go.
Bedtime Story…
…with Big GG.
almost time for bed
Last night, Janie didn’t wake up screaming and slept 10 whole hours! I heard her wake up for a couple seconds at midnight but it was nothing.
We’ve been trying to get to bed earlier now with the time change and this routine seems to work.
She gets about 10 minutes of Baby Einstein Lullaby and hangs out with Mommy on the couch with the lights dimmed.
She snuggles one or two of her friends and tonight it was her otter and doggie. She knows how to make the kissing sound now and you can hear it in this video.
Here she is making her two friends kiss each other.
This routine seemed to work last night and it worked again tonight. She was in bed by 8:30 and asleep in about 2-3 minutes. Good Night, Kiddo. Hopefully you’ll have another full night’s sleep again.
Not sleeping…
This is a picture of a kid who doesn’t want to go to sleep.
Bad Dreams
This kid has been having bad dreams almost every night around midnight. Apparently it’s a phase in toddlerhood. On Sunday night, she was in a pretty deep sleep in the carseat when we got home. It was late, she hardly napped that day, and it was the first day of Daylight Saving. When we took her out, she was in such a panicked state that she cried, screamed, and ran around trying to escape the bathroom when I turned on the water in the bathtub. I had never seen her so scared. A friend told me that it’s as if she is in a state where she can’t tell if she’s dreaming or awake. Luckily she snapped out of it when the bath was over and she didn’t remember anything the next day. When I turned on the water in the bathtub the next night, she was just as excited as she usually is. Phew. I’m glad I didn’t traumatize her too badly. Too bad when midnight rolled around, she started to cry the same way she was that night I was trying to bathe her – as if she was trying to get away from something. Luckily when I turned on the noise machine it helped her calm down. Poor baby.
Tricycle Outing
I was packing up for our Saturday outing to the Farmer’s Market and Janie refused to climb into the stroller. Instead, she ran over to the door and pointed to the tricycle. So, I had to rethink my packing strategy and off we went!
The Farmer’s Market was like a brand-new place for her today with this new 360-view of her surroundings.
After doing some shopping, we went across the street for a little playtime. Unfortunately, everyone had the same idea and it was swarming with children and their adults.
Luckily, we found some space of our own and Janie got to go down the slide a couple times. She also went down on her butt all on her own today!
The swings were popular so we had to find just the right time to get her a turn.
Of course, she LOVED it and she was good enough to get out after I gave her a warning and counted to 10. I feared that I’d have to carry away a kicking-and-screaming kid but I didn’t! I was so proud.
As a reward, we went out to the big grassy field.
She got to run around to her heart’s content.
Back on Embarcadero, we went to the Starbucks to meet up with Daddy. While we waited, Janie pushed the tricycle around. What a gorgeous day!
It was such a sunny day that Janie borrowed Daddy’s sunglasses for a bit.
At lunch, Janie ate up almost all of Mommy’s capers. She seems to love pickled things as much as Mommy.
We also found out that this kid loves to crunch on ice cubes. This warm weather was the perfect day for this activity. I guess she can hang out at the Magical House and crunch ice cubes with Yai now.
When we got home, Janie was clearly tired and overdue for a nap but she resisted.
Lucky for us, there’s a Blue Clue’s episode about nap time and it worked like a charm.
Apparently, Elephant has also turned into a new pacifier for her too.
Sweet dreams, Little Janie!
Early Morning
This little girl was up at 5am today and when the sun came up, she was pretty tired but not in the mood to sleep. So she sat in her bed with all her furry friends for about a half-hour to rest.
Janie’s Room
As most of you know, Janie sleeps in a little alcove in our livingroom. It’s basically a shelf with all her stuff and the pack-n-play that she’s slept in all her life. She’s learned how to use her step stool to access the baby supplies up top. That sneaky girl.
Last weekend I finally hung some of the wall art that I’ve been collecting over the past two years. Janie loves the one with the giraffe riding the cable car. We’ve also started hanging up some of her drawings on the other walls. She’ll have her “room” covered in no time.
Nap, then Legos
Janie took an extra-early nap this morning so I wasn’t surprised when she fell asleep on the sofa next to me before dinner. She was probably pretty tired from all the excitement on the bus and walking that big hill on Washington Street.
After an hour, she woke up and and was ready to go again.
Tonight, she played with her Legos and Dada helped her build her alphabet tower.
snuggles with dada
Janie snuggled up to Dada this evening before bed. It was very reminiscent of what they used to look like when she was a little baby.
