An update especially for Michael, who was not home for bedtime tonight:
Luke crawled up one stair today! I'm not sure that he didn't have help, though, Amanda was sitting right next to him and I didn't actually see the crawling. We'd better get the gate back up soon.
Amanda and Eleanor got to bed _almost_ on time, but not quite. I put Luke down for bed while the kids watched "Rocket Soup". I finished with Luke as the movie was finishing, Amanda hopped right up and ran into her bedroom. But then as I was singing to her, Amanda started scratching the eczema on her feet just as she was going to bed, so we had to go back down for hydroxyz (which I had forgotten earlier). She was in bed, insisting that I needed to sing the song about the sling (David and Goliath) by about 7:25, not bad. (I didn't sing any more songs, in case you are wondering.)
Then I went back into Eleanor, who wanted to watch "just a little more" of the video. We turned it off at 7:40, and then she wanted to have a short story instead of songs. I told her that she had to brush her teeth first, which started the complaining. She did stop when I pointed out that complaining takes up a lot of time, which should be spent reading stories... We read _The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins_ on of Dr. Seuss' great non-rhyming books. When we finished (8:10) she looked at the clock and said "It's past my bedtime!" and got into bed with only a little more complaining, about a 4 on a scale of 1 to 10...
Now we just need to see if I can get into bed before it gets very late, wish me luck!
Luke crawled up one stair today! I'm not sure that he didn't have help, though, Amanda was sitting right next to him and I didn't actually see the crawling. We'd better get the gate back up soon.
Amanda and Eleanor got to bed _almost_ on time, but not quite. I put Luke down for bed while the kids watched "Rocket Soup". I finished with Luke as the movie was finishing, Amanda hopped right up and ran into her bedroom. But then as I was singing to her, Amanda started scratching the eczema on her feet just as she was going to bed, so we had to go back down for hydroxyz (which I had forgotten earlier). She was in bed, insisting that I needed to sing the song about the sling (David and Goliath) by about 7:25, not bad. (I didn't sing any more songs, in case you are wondering.)
Then I went back into Eleanor, who wanted to watch "just a little more" of the video. We turned it off at 7:40, and then she wanted to have a short story instead of songs. I told her that she had to brush her teeth first, which started the complaining. She did stop when I pointed out that complaining takes up a lot of time, which should be spent reading stories... We read _The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins_ on of Dr. Seuss' great non-rhyming books. When we finished (8:10) she looked at the clock and said "It's past my bedtime!" and got into bed with only a little more complaining, about a 4 on a scale of 1 to 10...
Now we just need to see if I can get into bed before it gets very late, wish me luck!
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