Bedtime Routine

Oh Molly, you haven't quite started sleeping through the night consistently but that is ok as much as it kills me to wake up in the middle of the night I secretly love it because you are always a good cuddlier during the night. Dr. D said you should be sleeping through the night by 8 months so we have 1 months to work on it. In other news I wanted to talk about your bedtime routine because you are so sweet at night.

We start out with a bath. We used your newborn bath for about 6 months which you outgrew (like everything else) so we are now using your new big girl bath ring. You still LOVE bath time! You kick your legs, eat your toys and splash in the water. You could seriously stay in there all night. You give us the biggest smile when we take you out of the bath and wrap you up in the towel.


Then we move to your changing table where you just like to talk and laugh that is until we start putting your pajamas on. Once that starts happening you are not a happy camper. We have had to get creative on different "toys" to give you for distraction purposes. All you want to do is roll over and crawl and see everything that is on your changing table. After the pj's are on you like to look in the mirror above your changing table and jump, jump, jump. We do that for a while and then......



Move to the glider and read some books if you aren't too ready for bed. You go back and forth between eating the book and having it read to you.


Then it is time for bottle and bed. When you eat you cover your eyes with your hands and lovie and make your cute little noises. After the bottle you are either still wide awake your ready to pass out. If you sleep you tilt your head to the crook of my elbow, purse your lips and fall asleep. I rock you for a while and just look at your little face and soak it in. Then I wake you up a little and put you in your crib. If you are still awake after your bottle we put your in your crib and say our goodbyes and you put yourself to sleep.

Once you get pretty sleepy we move you to your bed give you a big kiss goodnight and walk out. You sing to yourself for a little bit and then you are out.