Sleeping Beauty

Ah- Claire, you have entered a new phase in napping and nighttime that I have thoroughly come to enjoy and appreciate. You know longer want to be rocked to sleep for naps. I used to wrap you all tight like a burrito and rock or bounce you until you fell asleep, then transfer you to your crib. You have now decided that you don't want to be rocked or wrapped up like my little baby anymore. You simply want to lay down in your bed, be covered up with blankets, receive a loving stoke on your forehead, the door closed and you drift off to sleep without uttering a peep! I can't believe it! You are growing up and becoming independent!

The only down side to your new sleep habits at church - church is hard for kids no matter what age they are I've decided, but even harder now that you won't nap at church. You don't want me to rock you, and there's no crib to lay you down in....pretty hard sacrament meetings. However, Danielle Johnson(a neighbor and friends) loves watching you during relief society and Sunday school, (she keeps asking to do so even though it's not necessary) which means that I'm all fresh and patient to deal with sleepy and fussy Claire during Sacrament meeting.