One night while we were in Huntsville, we went to the Botanical Garden’s Galaxy of Lights. They string up lights and all sorts of exhibits – about a mile long and people are strongly encouraged to turn OFF their headlights. Considering we were crawling and not on a main road, we unbuckled Taylor and let her sit in Grandma’s lap up front. She sat straight up the whole time and was completely and utterly enthralled! We’re hoping to find something like that here as well.
Monday was a fun day. Taylor wasn’t cooperating with me that morning on getting ready for daycare so I started listing off her teachers’ names as part of who all she would get to see that day. No real reaction. Then I started naming her friend and wow what a reaction! At the mention of Maya, she went to the door and was ready to go! After 4 days of mama and daddy, I was worried about separation. Apparently after 4 days of not seeing her friends, she was ready to see them and had no problem separating. 🙂
Well, she only slept 30 minutes that day so she was cranky that night. I ended up laying down with her in the guest bed because she didn’t want me to put her down – when I tried, she’d cling and literally climb back up into my arms. While lying down, she would occasionally reach over, turn my face to her and say, “kiss” then kiss me. It was really really sweet and I hated to end it but she needed to go to bed and laying down obviously wasn’t working. We went into our room where the rocking chair is – lights out – and she was out within 5 minutes.
Yesterday was equally fun. She had a better nap but when a friend, Brennan, left she started crying. She was looking out the window and crying for daddy. As you know from a previous post, daddy’s in Huntsville right now. We had difficulty getting to sleep but, in the end, the rocking chair won. And sadly, no sweet kisses like the night before.
We’ll see how it goes tonight with daddy having bedtime duties. 🙂