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Putting Luke to sleep

Tonight, when it came time to read to Luke, he tried something new. I asked him to choose a story, and he brought Froggie down to the pile of books and had Froggie choose a story (while making appropriate frog speech noises). I then sat down in the rocking chair, but I was promptly told "NO!" so I got up. Luke and Froggie sat in the chair, Froggie on one side of Luke, and Luke opened up the book and "read" it to Froggie, complete with appropriate noises when he got to the "fluffy baby penguin."

Then it was time to turn off lights. I turned off the wall switch, Luke turned off "his" table lamp, and I led him across the room back to the rocking chair for singing. Again I was told "no!" and Luke got into the chair, cuddled Froggie, and made singing noises. He kept telling me, "go!" and tried to push me away. I thought about going, but Luke really can't get himself into the crib =) We prayed, complete with Luke saying "Dear Lord Jesus" and "Amen," then I asked if he would sing "Jesus loves me." He started singing (note, dear reader, that Luke doesn't enunciate so well, so it sounded more like "Dedus does eee.")

At any rate, I told him that it was time for Froggie to go to bed. I carried them both to his crib. He made sure Froggie was tucked in carefully under the blanket, then asked for something. After a few mistarts, I figured out that Froggie needed a toy to sleep with, a little train. I told Luke and Froggie "night night," and left them snuggling sweetly. It was quite the evening.

Comments

Anonymous said…
What a sweet boy!

FNDP
mathmom said…
We think we'll keep him! But you should contrast this with the 15 minute screaming/spitting fest we had when we tried to give him his amoxycillin this morning... He can spit out medicine even when he's laying with his head horizontal.
Anonymous said…
Maybe you should have him pretend to give froggy medicine first?

FNDP
Anonymous said…
He enjoyed giving medicine to Froggy. Didn't make any difference for taking it himself, though!

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