Hannah is definitely our little momma. She loves her toy babies, and real babies so so much. It is pretty precious, but also super annoying at night because lately she literally takes 30 - 45 minutes to put all of her 'babies' to sleep on their cots. Check out the picture below.
She places out all of their 'cots' which are the pillows, then makes sure they each have a pillow for their heads, which can be an actual pillow, or a burp cloth in Minnie's case, then all tucked in with their own blankets. She then reads them a story, and then pats their backs to get them to go to sleep. You can see her in the bottom left hand corner, just so excited that she got all of them to sleep!
So at what point do we start pulling all of her stuff out of her room, or do we at all, since she takes forever to do this? Andy did it the other night when she was being naughty, and she threw a fit and seriously cried herself to sleep until 9:45pm. Andy and I have been really good about taking away privileges from the kids when they are misbehaving and not giving in on them, so when she lost her babies in her bed after being naughty, we can't go back on it, even if she does cry, and cry, and cry. Andy has said we need to just take the toys out completely, since she is taking forever to go to bed at night. This thought scares me a bit because I think - if she is being quiet, and happy, and staying in her room, is it OK to let her go through this routine? I have to figure that one out, because we don't need her staying up until 9:45pm putting her babies to bed, but on the other hand, and more selfishly, it is really nice being able to put her in her room at 8:45pm and leaving after reading one book and doing prayers.
Other little momma moments the past few days:
Here she is putting all of her babies and toys in 'timeout' - absolutely hilarious!! Most of them were there for biting....
And here she is making sure her brother was tucked in last night while watching a movie in mommy and daddy's bed before bedtime.
How sweet is that??!!
So I think for now, we will let her continue her routine of little momma since it will be nice to not have to worry about her once baby comes. Plus, I'm sure this is just a phase, and once her baby brother comes she will be pretty distracted with his arrival and being my little helper. Maybe we will try putting her down 30 minutes earlier, so she can still go through her routine, but be sleeping a bit earlier. I'll keep ya posted on how it goes....
