Getting Ready

In an effort to make our vacation more enjoyable, I started to make the twins sleep in their pack and play's for their naps. Monday was the first day and they both screamed for about five minutes before going to sleep. Well they take up the rest of the bedroom so before I could put them in the crib for bed Monday night I had to fold one of them up which was extremely hard on Brooklyn. She started to scream "Bed! Bed!" and cried when I put her in her crib instead of the playpen. Yesterday was better. No screaming before naps and we folded up the bed before she was in the room so that it wasn't so traumatic for her. Today, since they were so good yesterday, I moved them into my room. Brooklyn was not so happy when she saw me folding up her bed to fit it through the door but neither one seemed to mind sleeping in my room. They wouldn't lay down and I thought that it would take them forever to go to sleep, but to my surprise I never heard them. So they must have laid down. Anyway, they seem to be sleeping ok in the beds so I hope that my little experiment helps when we are in Jackson this weekend, because so far our vacation experience with the twins includes them waking up at all hours of the night, and us sneaking around trying to get to the bathroom without making any kind of noise, so that we don't wake them up. And then usually after a mostly sleepless night we all get up around 5:30. We usually only go for overnighters, but this time we leave Friday and don't get home until Monday. We'll have to wait and see how it goes.
We went to storytime today and the "reader" was reading books about Ladybugs. Then the kids got to do a craft and they made a doorhanger with a ladybug on it. It was fun and on the way home we listened to Brooklyn practice her new word...Lady....Bug....Lady....Bug. It was so cute.