Last night was weird, the elder princess is getting older and with that comes staying up later at night. We’re still trying to figure out where her sweet spot in time is and the best approach to get her to sleep at a new time, there’s also the looming of adjustment of day lights saving at the end of the month. The elder princess is 3 and most of her life she’s gone to bed before 6 PM, I can think of one night where the queen was out of town and I let the princess stay up to watch a movie with me. Outside of the movie she’s probably been awake past bedtime a handful of times. Last night was probably the latest she’s been awake, pushing past 8 PM. The main culprit keeping her up was her interest in Halloween, during the day we carved pumpkins and she wanted it in her room as night light. Then she got scared of the pumpkin, I took it away, but that wasn’t enough so I gave her a flash light and she calmed down. She didn’t fall asleep though, the flash light was a new toy I had to later come back and turn off. After all that I laid in bed with the princess for a bit until later the queen was able to get her to fall asleep. At least she’s sweet and I like hanging out with her, especially as her sense of humor develops.
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