"Fairies - Come Here Fairies"

With all of my brilliant parental wisdom, I pulled off the ultimate nap crime yesterday...

We are big on sleep in our house, at least for the little ones. Steve and I aren't sleeping much these days, but that may have something to do with the 5 week old in the house.

Before Abby's nap time yesterday, I read her the book 'Ten Tiny Fairies'. The last page in the book has a picture of a little girl sleeping with visions of the Ten Tiny Fairies in her dreams. In great hopes that Abby would nap, I told her "If you close your eyes and nap, you'll see fairies". BIG MISTAKE. For over 90 minutes I heard her yelling "Fairies, come here fairies", followed every once in a while with "mommy, I need my wings". Needless to say, there was no nap yesterday....

'Ni Ni '

Just a quick post for today... Yesterday, Abby's nap wasn't a long as normal because a noise woke her up.

After I got home from work, we went on your daily walk with Murphy. When we got home and I was taking her out of the jogging stroller, she looked up at me and quietly said 'ni ni' (aka: night night). She asked to go to bed. I was so proud of her for recognizing she was tired and that she wanted to go to bed, it was her choice.

The many times we didn't stay out late with family and friends, the many times we stayed home on the weekends to make sure she got her sleep have paid off. She's on a pretty stable schedule and we try very hard not to deviate from it. Some people understand, other's don't, but I feel because of the sleep she gets she's a very happy, energetic toddler and when she gets sick, it passes quickly.

Our sleep book of choice is Dr. Weissbluth's "Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child".