Best. Game. EVER!
I just spent the last hour playing "quiet time" with Bobbin. This was entirely her doing. She decided she wanted to turn the living room into a preschool, and got out floppy bunny, and peter rabbit, and giraffe, and laid them all down for quiet time. They each had a blanket, which was actually a cloth napkin from my linen drawer (Bobbin has decided my linen drawer full of napkins is actually the classroom's "extra blanket" cubby. All of my linen napkins are now strewn about the house, covering some stuffed animal or another. Floor, tables, chairs, sofas, etc. It looks a bit like a morgue for really tiny people around here).
Once she had tucked in all her toys, she spread a blanket out for me (a human-child sized one) and told me that I needed to have quiet time too. I laid down on the blanket on the sofa and she told me to close my eyes, and she proceeded to tuck me in. If I opened my eyes, she'd stroke my forehead and whisper "Shhhhh... mommy... it's quiet time. Close your eyes ok? I'll read you a book after quiet time but not if you don't go to sleep, ok?" As I laid there with my eyes closed, I could hear her moving around the room checking and retucking-in each of her other "kids", and saying in hushed tones "ok now, go to sleep, ok? It's quiet time now". Then she proceeded to pile a bunch of extra stuffed animals in around my legs and head and elbows for me to cuddle with while I lay there.
At one point she disappeared and was gone so long i was starting to wonder what she had gotten into. I got up and tiptoed down the hall to her room and peeked in. She was quietly playing with her toys on her bedroom floor, but she glanced up and saw me and quietly ordered me back to bed. I complied.
And so, that is how I got almost an entire hour nap this morning, after being allowed to sleep in until 8am to begin with. And now Bobbin herself is having a real quiet time so here I sit, wondering what to do with myself, being all rested and everything.
"Quiet Time". Best game ever.
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