As I eluded to yesterday, Bennett escaped from her bed at nap time, and I was not able to get her to go back down. Then, later in the day, she was reading some books, so I encouraged her to move to her "reading chair" in her room. She was excited to read there. I told her I was going to go change the laundry and I would check on her in a couple minutes. While I was downstairs, I heard a loud crash, and Bennett didn't respond. So I ran upstairs into her room and found her like this.....
Little Miss Stubborn had finally fallen asleep! I guess the crash was all of her books falling off of her lap!
She was great at bedtime last night and this morning, but after a 1/2 hour in her bed today at nap time, she got out again! This time I lured her back into her bed by allowing her to read her "big book" (a HUGE book of bedtime stories from Uncle Tom that she LOVES) in her bed. That book usually has to stay in the living room. After a few minutes of reading her big book, she was off to sleep. PHEW! She needed this nap BADLY!!
She's very sweet when she's sleeping.
ReplyDeleteBut to be fair, it should be noted that waking her from her ill-timed nap at 5:30PM resulted in a solid 30 minutes of whining and crying before she calmed down. Whew! Don't get between this child and her dreams.
~B