The other afternoon, worn out from all our holiday activities, Q and I both wanted a nap. We put Avery down, got Zoe settled on the floor next to us, and hoped for the best. As I closed my eyes I heard Q tell Zoe, who had popped up and said she wasn’t tired, to go in her room and play quietly; when I woke up an hour later, everyone in the house was sleeping. I learned later that Zoe had indeed gone to her room (she told me she had played in her kitchen and read herself two books before putting herself down for a nap).<\/p>\n
This might not like sound like a big deal – but, believe me, it was to us! Zoe has never before entertained herself while we were sleeping, and she has never before gone down for a nap on her own. It gives me hope for the future – showing me there will be a time when Q and I can nap or do stuff on her own while the older and more independent girls do their own thing. Talk about something to look forward to!<\/p>\n
-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The other afternoon, worn out from all our holiday activities, Q and I both wanted a nap. We put Avery down, got Zoe settled on the floor next to us, and hoped for the best. As I closed my eyes I heard Q tell Zoe, who had popped up and said she wasn’t tired, to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-52-two-kids-november-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6815"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6847,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6815\/revisions\/6847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}