Our Little Life: A bit of normalcy

Tonight out of nowhere, we had our first little taste of "normalcy" in our quiet, boring little lives. Raegan has been doing so well in her new bed, despite the fact that she isn't really napping during the day. She goes to sleep just fine and has adjusted to the big girl bed very well. Saturday morning she even got up and back into her bed several times and fell asleep again until about 9:30. All while Jesse was outside making all kindsa racket prepping our front yard for new landscaping.

Now, let me start by saying that a typical response to us telling Raegan it is time to go to bed is a bit of whining, a few "no, no ni-night"s and her asking repeatedly to watch more tv. She settles into her bed just fine, but she puts up a good fight for a minute or two before we get there. So you will see why tonight was a total shocker to us. We had finished dinner and Raegan had already taken her bath, so we settled down to spend some quality time with the Bubble Guppies, one of her favorites. Pretty soon she looked up at me and said "ni-night". It was 7:15!!! I asked her to repeat herself, and she did. I said "you want to go night-night, really?" and she nodded. She even hopped down from the chair and walked over to Jesse to five him a goodnight hug and kiss. So I asked her again if she wanted to go to bed (you know, just to be really, really certain) and she said yes and reached for me. I picked her up and she laid her head on my shoulder. Which is the ultimate tell-tale sign that she is ready to sleep. So we headed upstairs, I went through her new normal routine and she was out like a light in about a minute. What?! My husband and I hardly knew what to do with ourselves. Ha ha. We are just hoping that this means she is adjusting and starting to settle into a routine and is starting to love her new bed. Now....let's hope she's not up at the crack of dawn tomorrow!!