Diana in the box

The girls and I had a lot of fun while they were preparing to go to bed. One thing I especially enjoyed was playing Hide and Seek with Amelia and Diana. Amelia is good at Hide and Seek, except that she tends to tell me where she's going to hide ("I'm going to hide under the bed and you try to find me"). Diana likes Hide and Seek, but usually doesn't get to ten before she runs down the hall to find her sister ("One, two, three...ready or not!"). Diana doesn't always hide when the time comes either, sometimes choosing to watch mommy count with her eyes covered.

After Hide and Seek was supposed to be over, Amelia got the idea to hide in mom and dad's laundry hamper. I told her not to go in there, worrying that she would knock the thing over and get hurt. Because Amelia wanted to get in the hamper, Diana decided it was a good idea, too. Funny thing is, though Amelia couldn't quite get into the hamper Diana swung her leg up and over the lip of the hamper and pulled herself up and into the dirty clothes bin. I didn't really want her to do it, but I was really impressed that she pulled it off.

As daddy pointed out when I told him the story, it seems pretty likely that Diana can get out of her crib at this point. And Diana insisted on sleeping in Amelia's bed again during nap time. I think it won't be long until Diana will be in a big girl bed of her own.

Lisa