Bedtime Nightmares (and photos - not of the nightmares or bedtime, just photos)

Kieran's active imagination is great, except at bedtime. He tells amazing stories, but also is always thinking 'what's that noise' or 'why did the curtain move'? (The answer to the first is typically something outside and the second is usually cat-related). Most nights are great but every now and again something will upset him. He had a nightmare where someone's nose grew (not in relation to lying, just kept growing) and now he's upset by the story of Pinocchio they have been listening to/watching in music class. I told him to close his eyes, but he said the music freaks him out too. *sigh*

Amelia, on the other hand, had been doing much better. She had been sleeping through the night, putting herself to sleep and all that gloriousness. Did you notice my past-tense there? Yep. She got a cold and is cutting her molars so it's been a huge pain keeping her ass asleep. Last night she finally fell asleep on her own (something she hasn't done in about 2 weeks) and was doing great but then woke up at 2:45 AM. I went down and quieted her. Then Ken went down. Then I went down again and sat in her room for 20 minutes until she was finally back asleep. Looking forward to this phase being over.

Mia's words are getting clearer, but she's not doing much by way of sentences. We keep working on it but I think she knows she can get away with fewer words, so she does.

With the weather warmer, we moved Kieran to a new bike (and removed his training wheels). He loves it but the lack of training wheels scares him. Soon he'll love it. Ken also took him to the Orioles this past weekend and we did the DBFA's first playground crawl. I'm looking forward to the others.
OK, enough blathering on, here are some photos. If you've been on Facebook, you've probably seen them.

 Kieran doing a reading of the four questions at Passover.

 Kieran and his friend at the playground crawl.

 Kieran and Amelia at the egg hunt.

Me and Amelia at Passover.