Life, Schedules & Memories

Austin used to have a bed time routine. Then life hit.  We spent a week in MI for Christmas.  Austin got sick...twice.  Then he had an ear infection. He got better, we were just about on track for bedtime routine, then Mommy and Austin took a quick trip to MI.  We went on Spring Break.  Celebrated Easter with Daddy's family.  Then Grandma Dunlap passed away (Austin got to play with Grandma one last time a few weeks prior.  See picture.)  Then Austin started teething, began crawling and eating like a teenager.  Now he's gotten smart (well he was always smart.) We have gone back to our normal bedtime routine, but  Austin has figured it out.  No longer does he go to the bedroom, knowing it's bedtime, calm and quietly got to bed.  He still knows it's bedtime, now he is working us.  Though he's fussy in the living room, rubbing his eyes and clinging to one of us, once we're in the bedroom, he starts laughing, jumping around and squirming out of our arms.  He knows that this could cause Mommy & Daddy to let him stay up.  He's training us.  Well it's time to change that.  With patience and tender words, I was able to get him down tonight.  Even amidst the a thunderstorm, Austin calmly went down, ready for sleep, with God's angels watching over him.

In Loving Memory of Grandma Janet Dunlap