Nightly Routine

Our nightly routine goes something like this.

I think in my head, "We will start getting the kids ready for bed at 7:00".
7:15 rolls around and we are still outside playing.
We come inside and the boys want a snack.
7:25 we head upstairs to start getting jammies on.

I head to Hattie's room and while I'm opening her jammie drawer she runs to her closet and then says, "two three" and runs as fast as she can to her chair and crashes into it with her tummy, laughing.

I then ask her to pick out her jammies. She runs around the room.  I ask her to pick out her jammies. She continues to run around the room.  I pick her up and start taking her clothes off. She cries and I put her down and let her take her own clothes off and put on her own jammies.

It's 7:45.

It's time to brush teeth.  We brush teeth and Hattie tries to use the boys' toothbrushes.  After brushing teeth we go to her room.  She then asks for kisses from Chase and Owen and Daddy.  We get kisses. We come back and I tell her we are reading 2 books.

I sit in the chair and she runs around trying to find a "boo" she wants.  She picks out 12.  Brings them all to me and throws them in my lap. She hops on my lap, or tells me to "oot" scoot over so she can sit in the chair beside me.  We read 2 books.  Then she says, "One more boo" which sounds very much like "Elmo book".  So we read another book.  Then another.

8:00.  I stand up and walk to her crib.  She cries for "One more boo".  Hattie lays on the floor pretending to be sleeping, rolling around, reading a book, changing the diaper on her baby.  I put 10 books in her crib with her 4 babies and 10 stuffed animals and pick her up to put her in the bed.

I lay her in her bed and she kicks her legs over and over
-asks for kisses,
-asks to be covered
-doesn't want to be covered
-wants light on
more kisses

I leave. She yells.  I try to ignore.  Finally she goes to sleep. I head into Chase and Owen's room, usually too late to read to them.  They are waiting for me to "Sing to me and scratch my back".  :)  We cuddle and talk and pray and then it's lights out!