daddy-less

dave left saturday for a conference in sacramento and will be back saturday evening. a week without daddy. i don't know that the kids notice much, but i sure do, especially at bedtime.

our routine generally includes both of us bathing the kids, feeding them and putting them to bed. dave puts brynna to bed by reading to her, turning on her lullaby doll, and playing on his ipad in front of her bed until she falls asleep. i put caleb to bed by reading him (the same freakin' books every night...though i'm trying to insert a few new ones with some old since it's really boring...)...while my mom was gone i'd stay in the room with him until he fell asleep, but now that she's back i leave him in there with her.

my mom is here, so that helps a lot, but i'm still responsible for their bochas and putting them to bed. the baths aren't too hard since i can take them one at a time with my mom watching the other one. bedtime, though, is another story. brynna doesn't go to sleep as well with me as she does with dave, for whatever reason. after i read her books and put her lullaby doll on, i sit in front of her bed just like dave does. she proceeds to kick me in the back of the head, play with my hair, and attempt escapes.

the other night we had to pick my sister up from the airport at ten, and since both had taken late naps, they went with me. i figured, easy night, both are gonna pass out on the car and all i'll have to do is throw them in bed. not so. brynna fell asleep on the ride home, i put her in her crib, and then i got into bed with caleb to read him his books. not five minutes later the little girl walks into caleb's room, a smile on her face, ready to play. dangit. both of them ended up not sleeping until 1230 or later.

we'll see how tonight's bedtimes go...three more daddy-less nights and then i have my helpful husband back.