Ah sedation… either we are up all night or out an hour to half hour before bed time.
Bed time here is 8pm. We read stories, brush teeth, and call it a day. Since I don’t have the girls take a nap during the day, this comes very easily. I found out early on that when Jesse naps, Jesse stays up.
Mike and I had settled down to watch Big Bang Theory, when Jesse joined us at 8:30pm. She played in our tv/ playroom until 9:30pm when she appeared to be winding down. I put back to bed at 10pm, to which she asked if she could play in her bed. I have no problem with this because usually she will stay there and fall asleep. At 10:30pm, she was in our room.
She wiggled and flopped around like a fish out of water for an hour. Then I noticed she was sliding off the bed. She would pause halfway and look to see if I was still awake. When she felt I was asleep, she went to the door, paused to see if I would catch her, then trotted off to the playroom.
I caught her playing by the light of the moon. She calmly went back to her bed, asked if she could play in her bed, and I went back to my bed.
At 1:21am, Jesse crawled in our bed and finally passed out.