pillows

william always falls asleep with thomas at night. at 7:30 we get ready for bed and 8pm, he goes down, using the little twin bed in his room. we transfer thomas into his crib once he falls asleep. more about that 8pm bedtime below.....

for naps, i started doing the same at the beginning of the year. the bad part of that is he loves having one of us there now when he is trying to fall asleep. the even funnier thing is that he has noticed we always put our head on a pillow. so last month he started putting himself on a pillow. i have tried sliding him off the pillow once he is asleep, but somehow, he always finds his way back onto the pillow. this is regardless of whether he is on his back or front. it is hard to tell in this pic, but he is on his back. he is not twisted around like demon-possessed doll :p


last night, william put thomas in his crib because he would not fall asleep. it is getting harder and harder to get him to go to sleep. he always goes down around 8pm. but for the last month - he has stayed awake for 30-60 minutes before falling asleep. so he doesn't really actually fall asleep until 8:30 or 9pm. i guess that is part of those busy little toddler brains, working overtime.

sometimes, he just lays there babbling away. other times, he keeps trying to get off the twin bed and play more. so last night, william plopped him into the crib and walked away for 5 minutes. thomas started crying - he really dislikes his crib now. when william went went back in, he said thomas saw him through his puffy tear-streaked eyes, stopped crying, turned around, picked up the pillow, came back to the side of the crib, looked at him and pointed to the twin bed. breaks your heart!!!! sooo guttwrenchingly cute, you just want to pick him up and crush him to pieces! how come they're so cute???!!