David is at a race tonight, so Madeline and I have been home alone all night. This means that I was in charge of putting her to bed tonight (a task which David has been doing completely lately, because of our issues with Madeline). I put Madeline down around 8:30 – a little later than I should have, but still decent. She wasn’t asleep when I left her, but I was able to leave the room without any major fits so that was a major accomplishment.
I went downstairs watched a little TV, surfed the Internet a little, and then decided I needed to take a shower. I brought the baby monitor into the bathroom with me just to keep an ear on Madeline in case she decided to get out of bed and start running around the house. I did not hear a peep out of her the entire time. I was confident she had fallen asleep on her own, and I was already planning the blog I was going to write when I got downstairs with all of the great wisdom I have learned over the past few weeks.
I decided to peek in on Madeline as I headed downstairs, and as I opened her bedroom door I immediately noticed that her eyes were open and staring back at me. She was laying on her tummy in a very relaxed, cute position. After I let her cuteness sink in I realized that she was completely naked. Yep, we’re back to that again.
You all might recall that in order to combat her undressing in bed we had cut the feet off of all her sleepers and were putting them on backwards so she couldn’t unzip them. However, I figured we had to be past all of that, and since it is getting cooler out I didn’t want her feet getting cold at night, so I had some new sleepers in the next size up that I decided to try out on her tonight.
Well, I think it bothered her that she couldn’t see/feel her feet and she decided to remove her sleeper. So, at this point it was 10:00 and I had to put her sleeper back on her and I decided I would stay with her to help her fall asleep. I tried to rock her for a while, but after my steaming hot shower I was getting too hot holding her. So, I laid her in her bed and decided to rub her belly. I was having to lean over the bed rail which is not easy with my pregnant belly.
As I mentioned I was already overheating from my hot shower, and I was physically tired because I had decided to shave my legs in the shower, which at this point in pregnancy is an athletic undertaking. Thankfully she fell asleep pretty quickly, and I was able to come downstairs.
So, it was not quite the successful evening I thought I had, and I will have to save my great wisdom for another post at some later date…after I have mastered this whole bedtime business.
