Sleepy Night Night

We usually don't use baby talk with our kids.  But at bedtime sweet hubby starting telling them it was time for "sleepy night night," and it's stuck.  I try to remember to at least call it "night night" instead.  Somehow that seems a little better.

When we were weaning the kids off of their nighttime bottles, we figured that was a good time to start a bedtime routine with them.  We've got great friends that we respect a lot, and we've modeled what we do after what they suggested for this age.  We change the kids into their pj's and overnight diapers, then we all sit on the couch together and read a chapter or two out of the Big Picture Storybook Bible.  The kids are so good to sit still and listen, and they really like to look at the pictures.  Our March family photo is of us reading together one night.  They love the Bible, and we hope their love for it will keep on increasing as they get older!

Then we say the Lord's prayer together.  The kids chime in on "amen!"  We sing a hymn as we walk them back to their bedroom (hubby is so great to try to relate it to what we read), and then give kisses and hugs as we lay them down for the night.

Sleepy night night to you and yours too!