Boogie has been fighting sleep lately, so she's been going down later and later every night. Her newest "trick" is telling me that she's hungry or needs water as soon as I walk into her bedroom. She's figured out that I'll do anything to get her to eat more, and it's been used to her advantage for the past week or so. On average, she's up about 30 extra minutes playing while I prepare something for her to eat, and while she nibbles a tiny bit and feeds the dogs.
A few nights ago she did the same thing, and finally around 9:30 I refused her pleas for more food, more water, more time to play, and brought her to her room and tried to nurse. She was shoving me away, screaming like a banshee and pointig at the door to go outside for something. I held her in a bear hug so she could kick and scream, but wouldn't hurt either of us, and I started singing hoping she'd wear herself out and fall asleep.
As soon as I started singing, she calmed down and began to nurse. It was just "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" so the song was fairly short and as soon as I ended it and took a breath to sing it again, she stopped nursing, looked up at me and started clapping. Then she smiled and asked for "mas."
Loves it.
I hadn't really sung to her much in the past few months. When she was a baby, she'd hum along with me, but as she got older she would scream, like the sound of my voice physically hurt her ears or something.
But lately, she's been into it again. We've been to two birthdays this past week, and at each she started singing along to the "Happy Birthday" song. She's got the happy down, but she kind of just sings jibberish for the rest, but it is so dang cute! I'm hoping to get her on film, maybe I can make a YouTube thing out of it.
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