Little Rituals

Most mornings as I listen to the monitor I hear Bear playfully calling out, “Moooommmma!”

Cooper very forcefully admonishes, “No Bear quiet, time to sleep!”

Bear responds, “Mommaa!” (A little louder!)

Cooper says, “Shhhhhhhh Bear that not a sleep.”

I go in to get them and Bear throws himself down and pulls a pillow over him with a big grin on his face and starts snoring loudly.

So I say, “Shhhh Cooper let’s be very quiet Bear is sleeping.” Snores continue. I get Coop out of the crib and we do our morning dance and say hi to GiGi (her pictures are on the wall) and then we go to Bear’s crib who is now grinning from ear to ear but his eyes are shut. I say, “Hmmmm I guess we need to leave and let Bear keep sleeping.”

Bear pops up with his arms open wide, “Momma!!!” Cooper and I yell, “There’s Bear yeahhhhh!!!” I grab him for him the morning Bear dance and then we can begin the morning!

Now after naps the boys love to eat their banana's. So it seems like the only thing to do is to have a "Nanna Dance." So the boys will both typically dance a jig for their banana's. (Not always though, sometimes they just want the banana and will scream but most of the time I get a dance out of them!)