Dear Lilia,
I'm afraid that I may have said something that you overheard and took to heart. Usually, when your mom asks me if I'm tired and if I want to take a nap I say something along the lines of "Naps are for sissys!". Now I'm afraid that you heard me say it sometime and decided it was a life lesson for babies as well.
I'm sorry if you haven't figured it out, but you can get REALLY grouchy if you don't take naps when you're supposed to. Unfortunately, you don't seem to really care, because over the course of the last month or two you haven't done so well at going down for naps. Don't get me wrong, you have been improving over the last week, but it still needs a lot of work.
What I'm trying to say, is (GASP!) that what I say/do isn't ALWAYS applicable to everyone. I'll let you know in the cases that it doesn't apply to you so that you don't get confused. Maybe at this point it's a good time to bust out with what your Grandpa Shaw likes to jokingly say: "Do what I say, not what I do".
In short, please take naps. You're a lot happier when you do, and when you're happy, Mommy's happy, and when Mommy's happy, everyone's happy. There, a little life lesson for you in how to make Mom happy. Nap.
Love,
Daddy
Monday, October 25, 2010
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Early to bed...
Dear Lilia,
There are several things that you've made me learn over the last several months, but one just occurred to me about 2 days ago.
Some time back, you started deciding that your bedtime was between 7:30pm and 8:30pm. That worked perfectly fine for Mommy and I because we got to relax and spend some time to ourselves after you went to bed.
A little bit later, you started deciding to go to bed between 6pm and 6:30pm. Again, that's all fine too. I have started to notice something strange happening to my thought process after you go to bed though.
Now, once you're in bed, I think, "Well, I might as well get ready for bed. It's not like I'm going anywhere now." To me, that would be fine if it were closer to 9pm at night, but it kind of weirds me out that I think that when it's not even 7 pm! You're rubbing off on me more than you might think! Pretty soon I'll be going to bed at the same time as you.
Love,
Daddy
There are several things that you've made me learn over the last several months, but one just occurred to me about 2 days ago.
Some time back, you started deciding that your bedtime was between 7:30pm and 8:30pm. That worked perfectly fine for Mommy and I because we got to relax and spend some time to ourselves after you went to bed.
A little bit later, you started deciding to go to bed between 6pm and 6:30pm. Again, that's all fine too. I have started to notice something strange happening to my thought process after you go to bed though.
Now, once you're in bed, I think, "Well, I might as well get ready for bed. It's not like I'm going anywhere now." To me, that would be fine if it were closer to 9pm at night, but it kind of weirds me out that I think that when it's not even 7 pm! You're rubbing off on me more than you might think! Pretty soon I'll be going to bed at the same time as you.
Love,
Daddy
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