“a portrait of my daughters, once a week, every week, in 2014.”

daaniya : sleeping peacefully under the covers.
niyya : happily being cheered on, she reaches like nobody’s business.

its pretty cool talking to daaniya these days. i can reason with her, explain things to her, and talk to her about stuff and feel like things are really making sense in her cute little head. i take my time to make think understandable, of course, but i am a firm believer that toddlers “get it”. since her 2nd birthday, literally the day she turned 2, daaniya has been on and off with her naps. she’s always in her room during naptime, its just sometimes she prefers to play, talk and sing. and i’m cool with that. anyway, there are times she plays, talks and sings up until the last minute and THEN falls asleep. that’s really annoying to me because it messes with our whole evening. waking her up early, or rather on time, is not in the cards, as she is soooo cranky then. so the other day i explained to her that it’s better to sleep right away to get good rest, so that when it’s 4pm we can all get up and be in a good mood. she got it. i think. i mean it’s only been a few days, but she will either not sleep at all and be fine, or sleep right away and be fine. i think it also might be because i told her that when the weather gets better, if she wakes up late and cranky, we will not be able to go out to the splash pad or have ice cream or do other fun things. what? it’s true!