Or at least delayed?

I have been having a really rough time putting Eve to bed
for the past two weeks. She’s normally such a great, and
appreciative, sleeper but lately when we put her to bed she
just bounces around, gets up, turns off the AC, runs around,
etc. I had to move her bed away from her dresser because she
was climbing up onto the dresser and playing with the CD
player. She actually successfully changed the CD one day and
started the new one playing. I was impressed with the skill,
but not impressed that she was sitting on top of her dresser.
So now her bed is sticking out into the middle of the room. The
only way she has fallen asleep for about two weeks now is when
we put her in our bed. Given the choice she always chooses her
bed, but she doesn’t acutally settle down until she’s in our
bed. It occured to me yesterday that maybe she’s getting too
big for her bed! She likes to be tucked in and have doggie and
both giraffes tucked in too, but the first time she rolls over
in her little bed with her little blankets everything gets
uncovered. In our bed she snuggles under the covers and passes
out. At nap time yesterday I put one of Lex’s top sheets on her
bed and tucked it in all around. She fell asleep in about two
minutes!! I was thrilled!! Bedtime took about 10 minutes
because she was distracted by a bandaid on her toe, but she
fell asleep in her own bed with minimal fuss. Yay!! I’m always
proud of myself when I figure things out :)

We have a lot of roadwork around our
house. Shovel-ready projects abound!! It has become a game for
the kids to point out and read the road work signs. Lex
surprised me one day by reading a sign for the other lane.
Apparently he can turn his head around enough in his carseat to
see signs that we passed. Yesterday he surprised me again by
reading a sign in reverse. We were approaching a sign for the
other side of the road, but it was a fabric sign instead of a
metal sign and you could see the letters from our side, but
they were reverse. Make sense? It said “One Lane Road Ahead”
and he read it backwards through the fabric sign. I guess if
you can read you can read, but it still surprises me :) This
morning they were both crying and I asked them to read books in
their room while I got dressed. I returned a minute later to
find them sitting together in the big chair, him reading to her
and her resting her head on his shoulder! Despite all of their
craziness, they are so amazing and sweet.