A note from under the table

Sleeping better- (Mexico in feb) !!
Nolan, thankfully, is back on track with his sleep routine (Evadnie is a great nanny) so tonight was a lot better. I think the life experiences of going out on weekends, visiting, playing with other kids and so on is great once in a while but the benefits of a background routine are obvious.

After supper, Nolan went under the table and was having a great animated conversation with ??himself- he's very expressive and his gibberish sounds like it ought to be a language. I was listening to him chatting, and precontemplating doing the dishes, and also thinking about going to the garage to look for some potting soil to transpant a plant into a bigger pot, wondering if I had some sand for the bottom, wondering if we have enough milk....

So I decided to get under the table with Nolan instead. What was so fun down there?? As it happens, there is interesting hardware for the table leaf extension, and tthe tablecloth is pretty long, so it was a good fort. Nolan just BEAMED at me and we sat companionably for a bit. He actually gasped and wiggled in excitement when Mike came over and peeked under the table (Look! FEET! Coming here!!!!) and enjoyed lifting the tablecloth to peekaboo with him.

So, good lesson to self (I can tend to get a bit obsessed and "to do" stressed). Forget about the to do list sometimes, and stop for the toddler's eye view under the table.