Bedtime continues to be pretty smooth and happy here. While Daddy reads the girls their bed-time stories, I'm always sitting next to him and looking at my beautiful little girls and wishing I had a camera with me. So tonight I brought one along.
Aren't they adorable? The pictures of the two smiling girls were taken right after we tucked them into their cribs.
Gwen was taking naps in her "big girl" bed but she had some trouble falling asleep and I had to go into her room lots of times to remind her that she needed to stay in bed and try to sleep. Finally, she climbed back into her crib and zipped up her crib tent herself and fell fast asleep. That was the last time she ever wanted to sleep in her big girl bed and she's shown no interest at all in doing it since then.
Both girls have been having a bit of trouble getting to sleep at 1:00 when I've put them down for their nap. Two days in a row, we skipped naps because neither would go to sleep after more than an hour of singing and hollering and kicking the walls. They're not ready to stop taking naps but they might be ready to have a nap a bit later so we're shifting nap time to 2:00 PM. They should be good and ready by then!
Maddy wanted to move to the "Blue Room" several months ago and she still seems to prefer not sleeping in the nursery with Gwen. Gwen doesn't seem to mind sleeping alone either. I hope they'll want to share a room eventually. I never had a sister and always thought it would be fun to have someone to talk to at night. Maybe when they're a bit older, they'll want to do that. For now, they're doing great in their cribs so we're in no hurry to mess that up and put them into beds that they can get out of. Like the old saying goes: "If it's not broken, don't fix it!"
I just love pink and green for little girls. I hope Maddy's bedding stuff comes in the mail soon. With my luck, it'll probably come next week when I am out of town :-(
Posted by: Robin | August 07, 2007 at 01:09 PM
I know you know this, but you have two cutie pies on your hands!
Those smiles are excellent!
:)
Posted by: Jeff's Place | August 08, 2007 at 10:08 AM
They have such big smiles!!! They could not get any cuter. Esther is about ready to nix naptime all together. She hardly ever sleeps. Emma needs the naps but will get up sometimes. As far as beds go, Esther ends up in my bed and Emma's is her converted crib. I hope the cuties are doing well.
Elena
Posted by: Elena Manubens | August 08, 2007 at 07:36 PM
Look at those smiles!!! I'm sure you can't stop giving them kisses, they are so beautiful!
Posted by: Becky | August 12, 2007 at 08:32 AM
Hi Donna,
The pictures are so beautiful! (All of them, I'm only commenting on this one). Thanks for putting them.
You are just lucky to have 3-year-olds who still take naps, because none of my boys ever wanted to do that anymore once they were about 2,5 years old.
I do remember, however, that bed time at night comes much sooner once the naps are skipped. My "big boys" would skip their nap but then tumble into sleep at around 7 pm (where they could stay up until 9, before).
I don't think that's something you'd desire (with Andrew coming home and reading to them), so perhaps you should try to keep the naps in as long as you can ;-)
Love, Sjoukje
Posted by: Sjoukje | August 13, 2007 at 08:03 AM