This week, we see Appa and SteelyKid with all the essential elements of bedtime:
From right to left, we have: Goodnight Moon, the Winnie-the-Pooh collection I've started reading to her after her bottle, and the brown-and-white doggie she has adopted as her essential comfort animal. This was apparently a Valentine's Day promotion from some chain store a few years back, as Kate learned while finding a backup doggie on EBay-- we can't do bedtime without it, and don't want to think about what would happen if it got lost.
Despite the giggling and laughing that accompanied the picture-taking, she didn't take any longer to get to sleep than usual. Which was a relief, because I thought brining the camera upstairs was going to upset everything...
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Hey, I missed her transition to big-kid bed.
I understand your relief, my 2-yr-old has a 10-minute zone to get ready to sleep. Any excitement during that time makes it difficult to get him to settle down.