The things we do!

Kate and Kara share a room, and have since Kara was born. Even when we moved, it wasn't on my "must have" list for the girls to have their seperate rooms. I know one day I might regret it, but for now, I think it's sweet. The girls love to play in there and have their own "princess paradise". Of course, this *might* make Noah jealous, and I could go on to a blog of its own on what happens when Noah gets jealous... but don't want to go there! Anyways, it's now where Kara WILL NOT go to sleep unless Kate is in her bed. She will scream, holler, and get her leg stuck in the slats of her crib (yes, she is still in a crib.. I learned my lesson after the first two.. keep them in there AS LONG AS POSSIBLE... of course, this leads to getting legs stuck in slats b/c she is trying to climb out of the crib. And when I say stuck, I don't mean a little bit. Her leg turns purple and Chris has to pry the slats while I shove her leg back) just because she wants Kate in the bed next to her. Now all this *might* sound sweet, and be because she just LOVES her sister so much, but don't be fooled. She has now realized that her brother and sister are staying up later than her and get to watch a few TV shows before they go to bed. This does NOT set will with our "mild tempered" child. She gets VERY upset... to the point of head spinning, green snot shooting out of her head mad. So Chris and I have remedied this. Every evening now at bedtime, I take Kara and change her diaper. Sounds normal enough, but this is when it gets "tricky". In the time that I change her diaper and put her pj's on, Chris runs the older two upstairs in our room, puts on the TV, threatens them with their life to NOT make a sound, closes our door, then high tails it to the girls room, puts a pillow under Kate's sheet, raises up the comforter just a bit to look like a body. sheeeew. I take Kara upstairs and tell her to "be quiet, sissy is already asleep", put Kara in her crib, do our goodnight "rituals" (don't ask), then kiss her goodnight. Chris tells Kara goodnight as well, then we both go over to "kate" (the pillow stuffed sheet), tell the sheet/pillow we love her, give it a hug and kiss and leave the room (why, yes.. it IS a freak show at our house). Kara is silent, kind of stares at the bed like "how did she go to sleep so fast"...and lays down and goes to sleep. Our evil work here is done. It works like this great until Kate comes out of our room and hollers, "Is it o.k. to come out yet?????" and if you know our Kate, you know it's pretty LOUD!!!! That only happened once... I wonder how long kara can be fooled???
oh the things we do to keep our sanity!!! Just another look in to the life of a Surface!

*july 4th post coming soon*