Since getting to Virginia Beach (and even before if you really think about it) bedtime has been a bit of an issue, taking up a couple hours of Mommy and Daddy's evening. One day this past week, Mommy and William made a poster titled, William's Sleeping Rules. Mommy and William talked about the rules, Mommy wrote them and William decorated the poster. The rules are: 1. Stay in bed until your clock is yellow. 2. Be very quiet. 3. Close your eyes. 4. Go to sleep. Later that day they headed to Dollar Tree where William chose ten prizes for his prize basket. He was very, very excited about the capsules that grew dinosaurs. He knew that was going to be his first prize choice. To choose a prize in the morning, William has to follow all four rules. If not, no prize until trying again the next night.
The first night (Wednesday) Mommy thought was going to definitely work because he was so excited about the dinosaur capsules. But no, no good. Mommy was on the second floor and she could hear William walking around and talking. Finally, he called her up and she had to hold in her laughter as she viewed the scene. William had his step stool out next to Madelyn's crib with her prize basket (her prize basket is more for show - not really a reward system yet) on the floor - half of her prizes in her crib. He said, "I'm giving her her prizes to try to get her to sleep." After cleaning up and a couple more times out of bed they were finally asleep. He was pretty disappointed in the morning.
Mommy also decided that she had to start waking William up at 7 o'clock. He will be starting school next week 8-12 and because of these two hour getting to bed nights he'd been sleeping to 7:45 - 8. Madelyn was still waking up too early in the morning, too. They were on different schedules and being in the same room is challenging.
Thursday night was our first success! William was so happy to pick a prize.
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| Dinosaur capsules! |
Friday, Mommy, William and Madelyn met a neighbor and her two boys at the aquarium. The boys names are Hunter and Henry, which is pretty funny because if Madelyn was a boy Mommy and Daddy were going to name him Henry Hunter Butwin!
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| Komodo Dragon and Madelyn |
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| Crocodile, William and Madelyn |
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