Christmas in January 2011

Keira still likes us to sing her Christmas songs at bedtime. Just las night I sang her Jingle Bells and I saw Mrs. Claus kissing Santa Claus.

To sleep or not to sleep...or to change my clothes...or to snuggle... - January 2011

Keira has been coming out of her room more lately after being tucked in at night. And last night she kept coming out as has been her norm lately. But this time, sick mom thought it'd be a good idea to just let her have her lights dimmed and tuck some books in her bed and ask her to stay in bed and go to sleep after reading books. Ella will do that, so why should our second child be any different? About an hour later after hearing her cough (she is getting over a cold too) mom checks on her. She is not in her bed. She is not in her PJ's anymore either. She is curled up in the rocker glider resting her head on the armrest apparently sleeping and wearing a whole new outfit which included a skirt exposing her bare little legs to the cold. The skirt she was wearing was one with shorts underneath and she managed to fit both of her little legs into one of the sides of the undershorts. Mom had to refrain from laughing and felt bad about her exposed little legs. When mom picked her up to take her to bed she woke and explained she was taking a little rest on the chair and got all excited when mom told her she needed leggings and socks and got some books off the floor while mom got socks. She was ready for another sleepover party to begin and made sure that she put her socks on herself. But she did go to sleep after that...only to wake up at who knows when, alegedly 5:20 according to Ella, and slipped into Ella's room to play with her. Dad heard them giggling at 6 AM so they were playing together for who knows how long! And then tonight Ella conked out pretty quick, no doubt because she was up so early. But Keira played a little while. After checking on her about 20 minutes after tucking her in she had found her way into Ella's room again only to find Ella already asleep. Keira told mom that she wanted to snuggle with Ella. And mom found Keira with new pajama pants on. Same shirt this time, just different pants. Oh they are so sweet!

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