Sweet Dreams

 We love our nighttime routine and I hope she will remember it when she is older, if not I will remind her how much she loved to cuddle with momma when she is 14 and wants nothing to do with me.
 Her night usually goes like this: Bath, where I fight to rinse the shampoo out of her hair, where she doctors her bath-time Dora doll or puts her to bed with a washcloth. Afterwords, she sits on the counter and makes butt prints on the mirror with the lotion I just put on her, then she brushes her teeth/eats the toothpaste.
Next, we read a few stories on the couch, then she says "Daddy can I have a glass of wader",after one tiny gulp she gives Daddy kisses and hugs then we head down the hallway as she says "but we still need to do Rock a bye", so we pile up on the cozy recliner in her room with the lights off her moon projector on, cover up with Blankie, cuddle and sing Rock a bye, Twinkle Twinkle...which she has an alternative ending to, then we sing or say as many nursery rhymes as we can remember that particular day. Her favorites; Jack and Jill, Humpty Dumpty, Yankee Doodle, Itsy Bitsy Spider, and Mary had a Little Lamb. After 3 more, "just one mores",  she gets cozy in her bed with all her "friends" which include the following.: Most importantly, Dollie then Bun Bun, Little Puppy, Mr. Measles, Teddy and the newest member, Polar Bear. Then she asks "what are we going to do Saturday"...which usually means tomorrow, then we tell each other sweet dreams and blow kisses and she is quickly off to dreamland.
Such sweet memories...