Overall, bedtime is pretty easy in our house. Most of the time we are able to take the boys up to bed, give them a hug and a kiss, tell them good night, and leave the room. We've had a few spells (including the last month or so) where the boys have asked for us to rock them, or to lay on the floor with them for "2 minutes". Sometimes we oblige, sometimes we don't.
Lately, bedtime has seemed very chaotic to me. We try to say a prayer at night and thank God for all the wonderful blessing and fun things in our day....but with two chatty 2 1/2 year olds, it hasn't been easy. They want to rock, but they don't want to sit still anymore either. Chaos frustrates me...so daddy has been doing a better job of putting them to bed over the past few weeks.
But something changed this week, and I'm not sure what it was. We still (try) to say our prayer when we get upstairs, but the boys aren't really all that interested in rocking anymore. Their new thing is to show us how they can crawl into their beds on their own! This is pretty impressive since they are still in cribs. Now, they both go and crawl into their beds, then Brian and I give them hugs and kisses goodnight and tuck them in.
They picked up on something that I hadn't even noticed - I usually tell Lincoln to "sleep tight", and I tell Jackson "sweet dreams" - so now, they yell to us as we close the door those sayings and that they love us (even though they've already told us about 10 times already).
Last night, we went through our new routine, tucked the boys in, and headed back downstairs. When we turned the monitor on downstairs, we could still hear Jackson chatting away. He was telling Lincoln a story, and singing a song, and then all of a sudden we heard him yelling "I love you Mommy and Daddy!" He said it about 3 times, then just went to sleep. It was so sweet.
Keeping my fingers crossed that bedtime will return to being very easy, and the chaos is starting to settle!
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