bedtime...

penny has always been GREAT about bedtime and for the past few months it's been easy peezy.  walk upstairs, say  night night - and put her to bed.  30 seconds and done.

lately our routine is changing a bit, becoming a bit longer.. but i love it :)

as yo gabba gabba ends, i tell her it's time to kiss daddy and gatsby... this is when she thinks it's hilarious to run away and make daddy chase her.. she giggles like a crazy person and takes off until we "catch" her for kisses before night night.  we then tell gabba night night, the babies night night, and gatsby night night.

as we go up the steps she points to everythign and touches everything including the "sky" - ceiling.

we touch and talk to the puppy picture on teh wall and the owl picture on her door and say "hoot hoot"

then it's bedtime stories.  we read "someday" and "i'll love you forever" as the bedtime stories and penny is a huge fan. she just finally has the attention span to sit through longer books and just listen to me read.  she does however have certain things she remmebers on each page that she likes to talk about.  in "someday" there is a page that says "one day i counted your fingers and i kissed each one"  so one time i did the same to her.  now every time we get to that page she gives me her hand and says "kiss". and if i just kiss one finger she says "two" - indicating that I need to keep counting.  she loves that book.  talks abou the "baby" the whole time.  then when we read "i'll love you forever" she likes to reprimand the 2 year old boy who makes a mess: "no no baby, no no"; point out the mommy and say "night night" each time the mommy sneaks into the room; and the page when it talks about the little boy moving across town she always, without out fail says, "bye bye"

 

the rest of out night time routine involves her handing me all her bedtime friends for crazy kisses.  she hands me brobee and muno and i have to kiss them, make them kiss, then they kiss her.  then same routine with the two puppies.  if i skip she yells "kiss mommy" and "two"  (she's very into "two" of everytrhing.  so she has two of all her favorites in bed with her and i have to give them all two kisses)

i have to admit i love our little bedtime routine :)