Snoozing Siblings

Every night before we go to bed, Tori goes into the kids' room, turns on the space heater, and checks on them. Sometimes she whispers for me to come check something out and this night (about a month ago) we had to laugh about the way Skip was sleeping. He loves to sleep with his hands behind his neck, especially when he sleeps in the car. Seems pretty unnatural to me.

I love this picture because it totally captures the nighttime scene in their room. Zadie loves to have a million stuffed animals in her bed -- I can see Pippi Longstocking, Elmo, and the Wocket in My Pocket Dr. Seuss animal. I also love her little quilt. Tori got it at one of those prop sales that movie studios have and we're always trying to convince Zadie how cute it is but she is always trying to take it off and use one of our other quilts.

The Skip scene is not quite as accurate because I'm sure Tori put his little blanket on him before she took the picture -- he will never sleep with a blanket on and so we have to dress him in layers. And he has a favorite teddy bear and "green dude" that he likes to sleep with that aren't in his bed for some reason.

Anyway, it's just cute to me how their beds are like one foot away from each other and how they get to go to bed chattering away with each other every night. Oftentimes Skip won't stop talking and Zadie gets frustrated and asks us to make him quiet because she just wants to sleep, but most of the time they're pretty cute together.