Yesterday was just rainy enough to make it an indoor playing day.
So, while I prepared dinner once finally home from work, Julia happily banged wooden spoons and measuring cups on her high chair tray, and Antonio squeezed snakes of play dough and created letters all over the kitchen floor.

We made it through bath, teeth brushing and jammie getting on-ing without drama, and read a chapter from his new book, The Mouse and the Motorcycle, by Beverly Cleary. It’s a chapter book, and since he enjoyed the Frog and Toad Collection so much, I wanted continue with the chapter books, but it’s taken a while for me to find some that I knew he’d like.

So, 7:15 he’s tucked in and I had Julia seemingly snuggling down to sleep too.

Not the case.

Antonio had a nap at daycare yesterday, which I found out after he’s popped out of bed for the second time to tell me how unfair it was that Julia was still up and she’s younger than him. This totally throws off his bedtime, which rolls over to a rough getting up time in the morning.

At least he’s quiet about it. He pretty much hangs in his bed and sneaks a book to read or a small toy.
When he wasn’t asleep by 8:15, I made up a plate of cheese, crackers and sliced strawberries and invited him out for some bites and to watch the naughty children on TV (Nanny 911)
Julia happily played in her exersaucer, which was cool, because it was about as close to one on one mom/boy time as we can get right now.

I shuffled him back to bed at 9, and Julia and I were in bed by 9:30 and asleep by 10.

Antonio had commando’d into bed with me sometime during the night. He’s taken his dad’s sleep mannerisms and hovers on the edge of his side of the bed, because Julia and I sprawl and take up the majority of the space.
This morning, after 5 minutes of stretching, he got dressed on his own before I even got out of the shower.

So, even though we had a later night, he was so cool this morning, & we were all glad about that.