Bedtime

Jude and Julia are so different when it comes to going to bed.

With Jude, he waves bye, blows kisses and is ready. He will not even let me rock him at bedtime anymore! I will get a couple seconds of rocking before he will point to his crib and say "that, that". Once in his crib, he cuddles with his blanket and is happy. If he is not tired enough to go right asleep, he is content to just quietly play until he does fall asleep.

Julia, on the other hand, fights going to bed with every fiber of her being. When we finally do manage to get her in her pajamas and in her bed, she will repeatedly get out of bed. I know she is tired, but she refuses to go to sleep. On the nights she actually stays in her bedroom after being tucked in, I will discover the next morning that she has gotten out LOADS of her toys and played with them instead.

Julia can make bedtime very stressful some nights.