To continue with the theme of my prior post, sleep, a few notes about the kids and their bed time routine.
I like the word routine. We have a good routine for bedtime, it's just a consistent schedule for it that we're lacking! Every night at bed time the kids put on their sleepers, brush their teeth, and then they each pick a book. We read their stories and throw in some scriptures and an Article of Faith. Then we say prayer, give out water, fight over who gets to turn on the humidifier, and give too many hugs and kisses to count. That's the routine. It's consistent. The timing of when this routine takes place? A bit variable. Occasionally right at 9. Sometimes closer to 10.
Tonight it was closer to 10. At 11:30, the kids were still busy in their room enjoying sibling bonding time. A couple nights ago I listened at the door and heard them playing an imaginary game of Sequence (a board game we have) out loud. Sometimes they have pillow fights. Etc. Whatever! They're enjoying each other's company so it's all good, right?!
Grandma stopped at the door tonight, curious b/c it sounded like they were throwing a carnival in there. Bentley said:
"Hush!! Someone's coming!!!"
good catch on his part. but he said it after she'd already been standing there for a bit!
they quickly fell silent and kept the silence for a good 5 seconds... :-)
Then Bentley said:
"Well, tomorrow we have a lot of stuff going on. But not too much!!"
I like that he was giving the twins a pep talk. Too bad it didn't also include an admonition to get straight to sleep?!
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