Now to sleep

Just to keep track of this milestone... for the first time ever, R completely put herself to bed with no help at all from either parent. While bedtime has been getting easier and easier over the past few months, this is the first time we had no involvement. Well, none beyond We are sooooooo tired. We're just going to go to sleep now. Please don't stay up too late. You have school tomorrow. Zzzzzzz Or something to that effect.

It was a long day. We had out annual street party. I was up early cooking a nice chilli for the lunch (the longer you spend cooking, the better it tastes). The party iself involved loads of food, to the point that once it was over, despite it being dinner time, we had no room left. Except R, who has been too busy playing to notice there was lunch. So after putting together a quick sandwich for her dinner, I went to bed. The above conversation was done with me under the covers and my eyes closed. I'm pretty sure I was asleep before she was in pyjamas.

She clearly went to bed at some point, as we had to wake her in the morning. But she did the job of getting to sleep, and, more importantly, showed no signs of resentment toward us for having to do it. Nice way to turn a parenting fail into a parenting win.