Since our move to a bigger apartment about a year ago, Ellen started sleeping in a "big girl" bed (Read: a bed she can actually get into and out of by herself).
To give her more of a reason to stay in bed, I keep all her toys in the closet and a doorknob cover on the closet door and the inside bedroom door. She can't play with her toys and she can't leave her room.
But she has access to all of her books in the book baskets in the corner of her room. If she doesn't feel like sleeping, I am completely fine with her looking at books. (The opposite is usually true for me. If I feel like reading a book, I have been known to stay up at all hours of the night reading instead of sleeping. The next day shows, though, that I am not completely fine with not sleeping.)
On the day pictured, Ellen carefully slid all the books she didn't feel like looking at under the door of her room out into the hall. I love how some of them made it all the way under the closet door on the other side of the hall. Do you recognize any of those books? They are actually some of our favorites.
She eventually did go to sleep. Here's Jack giving her a hug because naptime is over and now he can play with exciting Ellen instead of boring old Mom.
3 comments:
That's a cute picture of the books...way to capture the moment! :) And good luck with tomorrow's nap.
Love it.
And I've actually never done anything to my eyebrows. Isn't that great?
I'm glad you were perusing Steve's blog.
While at Becca's I found a broken door knob cover in Josh's room. I put it back together and put it on the inside handle of his door. The next hour as we were playing he looked up and said, "Hey, I already took that off of there," and gave me the most steamy glare. That kid made me laugh 20 times a day.
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