Dear Miriam,
Thankfully, you started having a bed time routine again, this month. There were two nights that we locked the door to your room. Then the third night, I was tucking you in, and you said, "Don't close the door." I said, "You lay in bed and fall asleep, and I'll leave the door open." And that was it. Ever since then, I can tuck you in and leave, and you lay in bed and fall asleep. It's great.
It actually means that we do more cuddling at night, because I know that I'll be able to spend a few minutes with you and it won't be a problem. You still wake up at night, asking for a drink or needing to go potty, but afterwards I just tuck you back in and go back to bed. My thought now is that as you get better at falling asleep the first time, you'll get better at falling back to sleep in the middle of the night.
Dad's contribution to your new and improved sleep habits was to make you a new stereo and speakers. (I know you're shocked by this.) It is useful, because it can play files from a USB stick on repeat, so when you wake up at night, you still have music to listen to. I don't know if that helps you go back to sleep, but I don't think it hurts.
I got you some new shoes this month. There was nothing good on sale at Target, so I looked online to see what else was around. There were some cute options, but we found some real winners: Tom and Jerry shoes. Grandpa brought home some Tom and Jerry cartoons months ago, and you and Corbin think they're hilarious. I think it's a bit strange that my kids are enjoying 50 year old cartoons, but they make you laugh like crazy, and you think the shoes are pretty great, too.
It got crazy hot this month. People keep saying things like, "It's never this hot! We never use our air conditioning!" I don't know if they're forgetful or actually right, but it seems like it's been nothing but hot in this state. I told Dad that we should put in air conditioning this winter, and then solar panels in the spring, so by next summer we'll be prepared. It's either that or buy a hundred more box fans. We had been doing bath night every other night, to save on water and because you didn't really need it. But you would get so sweaty during the hot days that we had to wash your hair every night. I only run your bath lukewarm, so that you can get all cooled off, but even when you just run the cold water, it's never really cold.
Dad and I spent a long weekend in Minneapolis this month. Flying in on the plane, we were looking out the window at all the buildings where we used to work and shop, at all the parks and lakes. It was green and wet and beautiful. We stood waiting for the train, before picking up the rental car, and talked about how good it smelled with the rain coming down. The wedding was lovely. We got to see lots of friends, which was great and hard, because I miss them very much. I hope that you will have the chance to experience life in different places. I complain about living here, and I know I'll move back to Midwest someday, but maybe there will be things that I miss about living here, too. I did miss you while we were gone, which will be true no matter where we all end up living.
Love,
Mom
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