Here is Hyrum, sitting in a pile of rice crispies, clearly enjoying it. Ava wanted to feed her stuffed animals the other day, so now the playroom is covered in them. I’ll vacuum it, sometime.
Anyway, earlier today…
I put Hyrum in his crib for his morning nap and got a bath ready to relax a bit. Then Ava comes up to me and asks me to tie up the back of her Elsa dress. So I did. And then she cried that it wasn’t tight enough, so I did it again. And then I see her little feet inching along the edge of the bathtub. (It seemed she wanted her dress tied up so she could play in the bath too.) When I told her I wanted to relax by myself in the tub, she cried, and then I heard Hyrum crying, so I went to check on him. His crib was covered in rice crispies, again. (He knocked over Ava’s cup of them.)
So Ava played in my bath while I held Hyrum. And I figured since we were already up, we might as well enjoy the moment. So I sang him Silent Night as I rocked him back and forth, and he just rested there so relaxed and still. And I loved it so much, especially since he has been so grumpy and restless lately.
But then Ava’s bath talk got quieter, and soon she was in the room talking to Hyrum. Oh dear. So he was up again, and I took the opportunity to vacuum his crib while he ate rice crispies off the floor in the playroom. And now he’s finally asleep in his clean crib and Ava is watching a Christmas movie in the playroom. Phew!
