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<\/a><\/p>\nE: “Mama, can I sleep with you tonight?” Yeah, she is into spelling everything out. She thinks that by spelling a few choice words Addie won’t know what she is talking about. Hmmm…wonder where she got that from?<\/p>\n (Note to self: Stop spelling everything N-O-W, or start spelling backwards, until she catches on to that one, too.)<\/p>\n She is a stitch! I cracked up when I put her to bed last night when she told me, “Don’t worry, Mama, I will leave some room for you!”<\/p>\n And when I climbed into bed she was indeed all the way over to one side of the bed. She rolled over and fell off the bed, in fact. I got her back in bed and told her that she could move more to the middle so she wouldn’t fall off.<\/p>\n So she snuggled into me and whispered, “I love you, Mama.”<\/p>\n That, my friends, is payback for all of those midnight drives, walking the neighborhood at 2am, and rocking, rocking, rocking so many nights away when she wouldn’t sleep.<\/p>\n And it was oh, so worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When did my little Emma become an easy-to-put-to-bed, good sleeper? And why am I questioning it? I mean, I suffered through enough sleepless nights, I should just take it as my reward, no questions, right? (But, the real question is … Continue reading
\n<\/em>M: “Em, we’ll talk about it later.” <\/em>(As I nod towards Addie…indicating that we don’t want to talk about it in front of Addie because sleeping with Addie…well, it just doesn’t work very well.)
\n<\/em>E: “Oh, we will talk about it when A-D-D-I-E is not here.”
\n<\/em>M: “Mmmm hmmm.”
\n<\/em>E: “Can you just tell me Y-E-S or N-O, M-O-M?”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n