Bedtime

Susan is usually ready to go to sleep about 9. She has a bath in the paper tub (we used it to recycle newspapers) about 8. She brushes her teeth wrapped in her duck towel and sheds it to run around the house. I guess every child likes to do that at some time in her life. We put on a diaper and pajamas to get ready to sleep. She sits in Granpa's lap to drink her milk out of the sippee cup.

She doesn't like to have her hair washed, so we do something special. I can't get her to keep a dry towel over her face to keep the water off, and she doesn't like lying in my lap like Silvia showed me. It may be partly because she has grown so much. She is at least 2" taller than she was in May. After the struggle to rinse out the soap, I dry her hair and face if there is anything dry within reach and let her blow bubbles for a few minutes. She loves to do that.












When I take her to the bedroom with bebe and sometimes some stuffed animals, she is usually sleepy and can go off easily. I had been telling her the names of all the people who love her. Now she joins in with names, sometime of inanimate objects like bebe, milk, couch. I lie down on the bed next to her bed until she goes to sleep. If she would rather play in her bed for a while, I usually leave to go read my book or whatever I was doing.

We haven't been very successful with the potty training. I'm not sure Susan notices if she is wet. In the past few days I've tried using a sticker chart when she tells me and uses the potty. It sometimes works.