night night

So, following the recent sleep issues we've been having, I instituted the night-night circuit. We say goodnight to all the animals and bye-bye to all the lights, then night-night for Mama and in to bed with whatever lovvey of the day he wants to bring. This has been working wonderfully. If it doesn't work, we wait a few minutes and repeat the process topless so the nursing can begin before going in to lay down. The fact that this helps has helped me understand some of the feelings the Razz is probably having, as I get the same thing: I'm exhausted but for some reason have a non-specific anxiety about actually going to sleep. That's a horrible feeling and if that's what he feels, I'm into doing whatever I can to help him deal with it.

But that's not really the point here. The point is, the Razz is freakin' adorable. He has a fascination with vacuum cleaners, brooms, and more recently, air conditioning vents. In the last couple of weeks his choices of lovveys has included a toy broom, a real broom, and the dirt devil cone vac twice. Last night, as we made the rounds the second time, he directed me to both the full-sized vacuum and the little cone vac to say good night to them (complete with night-night kisses) and then to the air conditioning vent. Thankfully, he settled for waving bye-bye to the vent. I wasn't looking forward to hoisting him up there to give it a kiss, especially if it was going to turn into night-night kisses for ALL of the vents!