Current mood: amused
Ever since Mia graduated to the "Big Girl Bed", I have formed a new tradition with her. When she still slept in the crib I used to carry her to bed, rock her in the rocking chair until she got good and sleepy then put her down and left the room. Now I make her climb the stairs herself with me following her of course (per doctor's orders, I am not allowed to pick up let alone carry Mia), we walk into her room, she climbs on her bed as I turn on her radio then climb into bed with her. I will stay with her a good 20-30mins before getting up and leaving.
When I leave she usually gets pretty upset and tries every way possible to get me to stay. She pulls on my shirt trying to force me to lay back down, she shakes her head no, she says "no no no no no" and sometimes pokes me in the eyes trying to get me to close them again. I usually have to talk to her a bit, give her her favorite toys, blanket, kiss her head and leave as she cries.
Well lately she has been getting a bit better. She hasn't cried in two days, but I have observed something new that just cracked me up inside. I just had to write about it.
I have noticed this before but not to the extent it is now.
When I am laying down next to her and I have my eyes closed, she always cuddles up next to me, facing me, forehead to forehead. Lately I have felt her little eyes staring at me. I open my eyes and sure enough those two little dark eyes are staring right at me! As soon as she realizes my eyes are open she quickly shuts her eyes really tight as if she is sleeping. She shuts them so tight that I can barely see any eye lashes sticking out!! She will wait awhile then slowly try to squint with her eyes partly open, when she thinks I have my eyes closed, she opens her eyes again. Then when I open my eyes she will quickly shut her eyes tight! It was the funniest thing. I tried so hard not to laugh. She was truly trying to fake me out like if she was sleeping so I wouldn't leave. She knows if she doesn't settle down or try to sleep I leave earlier.
I decided to test her to see if she really was trying to fake me out. So I closed my eyes and counted to 20 in my head. Then I slowly opened them and found her playing with her little tiny Plex finger puppet. She then looked up at me, saw that my eyes were open, quickly froze, squeezed her eyes shut again, all while holding her toy mid-air! It was too cute!
Sigh.... my little Mia already trying to find way to fake out Mama!... yep she sure is alittle version of me haha
