bedtime

Nels doesn’t normally take a binkie except when he sleeps. Of course Solvei loves her binkie. Most of the time the binkie ends up on the floor under the bed while they’re sleeping. If you tell them to get their binkie, they will crawl under the crib and get it. One way to get Nels and Solvei to go to their room to get ready for bed at night is to tell them to go find their binkie and their blankie. They usually will get their binkie and then pull their blankie down onto the floor and lay on it.

I guess Nels wasn’t ready to go to sleep yet when it was bedtime tonight. I got him into his pajamas and ready for bed as usual. While I was changing Solvei I told him to go find his binkie. He walked over to his crib and crawled around it. I went back to changing Solvei’s diaper, but when I turned around Nels had a toy and was going to walk out of the room. I told him it was time for bed and to go find his binkie. He walked back towards the crib and I put Solvei’s pajammas on. When I was done getting Solvei ready I put her down on the floor just as Nels was trying to walk out the door again. I told him he was a silly boy and needed to go find his binkie.

I walked with him over to his crib, only to find that he had found his binkie, and he had put it in his crib.