Year 2: Week 12

Dear Zayde,


This week I learned that it is, indeed, possible for me to sleep from 7:30 p.m. until 7:00 a.m. without waking up Mommy for food, snuggles, or play time. Sure, I miss the midnight festivities, but to tell you the truth, it was getting hard to keep the party going when my parents seemed so unenthusiastic about the whole thing. Their boring refrain, "aren't you tired?" put a damper on my dancing mood, so it's just as well that I've learned to curl up with my pink monkey each evening and drift off to dreamland, where the DJ keeps the music playing all night long.

As an unrelated observation, I also learned that those dark circles under Mommy's eyes weren't permanent features.

This week I also learned that steak and salmon are delicious, despite my earlier belief that they were yucky and only good as projectiles. All that sleeping has made me extremely hungry, and this week I learned the phrase "eating like a horse." Do horses like steak?

I've learned this week that sleeping, eating, and playing are best accomplished when practiced according to some sort of schedule. Mommy had us on a loose routine for months while I decided how many naps was optimal and when I wanted to go to bed for the night, but now that I've got her locked into a real schedule, I find that she is more predictable, happier, and more likely to rise and shine in the morning, rather than rise and mope. The new and improved Mommy still won't let me touch the trash can, diaper pail, or toilet, but I'm working on a plan of action. All of those things are begging to be opened and emptied, and I'm just the girl for the job.


On the clock,
Zelda