Friday, May 21, 2010

Quiet Time

A year ago, in the early summer, my sweet baby gave up her naps. Naps made her stay awake until 10 pm every night. Well, her parents got tired of fighting her every night for 2-3 hours because she would not stay in her room. Not worth the fight in our book. Naps--be gone! And now she is in bed between 7:30 and 8:00 every night.

I was looking through some pics from the last year and found a funny progression of what went on during our new found "quiet time." (Don't think for a minute this mommy doesn't get time to herself every afternoon...I do.)

July 2009
She fell asleep on the floor. CFA cow in hand.

November 2009
There were lots of days with papers lying out--each with 2 crayons.
They were for all her friends that came to play during quiet time.

December 2009
The papers progressed from the edge of the bed to the entire bedroom floor.

January 2010
And more papers, all the way to the door.

February 2010
Forget the paper, now all animals need to read in QT, just like LilE.

April 2010
Books and papers are boring. She needed to pull out a little bit of everything. 

At least she is being quiet in her room, right?

3 comments:

w and js mommy said...

as long as she is quiet then I say GREAT! Sometimes I want to peak in on william but I fear he will think its time to come out and TALK or be loud. YOU are so good at taking pictures!

It's a Mom Thing said...

our quiet time rules
1. be quiet, don't wake your brother
2. you have to clean up anything you get out during quiet time

KLee said...

Since these pics were taken, we have changed up our rules a bit--her room has to be clean at the end of QT!! And I took these pics at the end of quiet time. Now her room is spotless come 3:0. :)