"Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so...."
I can not hear this song with out thinking about rocking my babes to sleep!
One thing i am so glad i did was rock them almost every night , if i didn't then shawn did. i do have to admit, rocking them every, single, bingle night was kinda exhausting , especially when i had a million things to do. but you know what? i can't even tell you what one specific thing was that i had to do back then, it probably wasn't that important {well,maybe it was showering.... cleanliness is always important,wink} all i remember is rocking them every single night!
we probably rocked hunter until he was 3. we had to get a little routine so he would stay asleep when we put him down, so we would rock him while we prayed with him, then would sing Jesus loves me 5-10 times then put him down and sit in the room with him till he fell asleep . we also did the same for carter! Capri does like to be rocked too, which i do most days for nap time, but if the boys are destroying the house and screaming downstairs, i can put her down while she's awake too! :)
tonight, i just felt like rocking hunter. he covered my whole lap and stretched down to my legs! it's so bittersweet. i'm so glad that he is this little healthy ball of energy and can pick out his own clothes, dress himself, get a snack by himself, zip his coat and such, but it makes me kinda sad that he doesn't need me as much! i'm trying to soak up every moment of him "needing" me and being a little boy. i always would sing "Jesus loves me" to him , and as he got older he would sing with me and it would melt my heart! sometimes i would cry. i would try and hold off till he was fully asleep so he couldn't see me, but he would say "mommy, are you ok?" then it would make me cry even more!
i wanted to rock carter to sleep tonight too, but he zonked out during snack time ! i guess i will tomorrow night!
even if you child is a super duper good sleeper and goes to bed on their own, take a night every so often to rock them! life goes by too fast not too!
soak them up!
rocking hunter tonight
he had me sing "you are my sunshine"
{tear}
i loved rocking "both of my babes to sleep! this is when i was preggers with capri last year
even as my belly got bigger and bigger, i didn't want to miss out on these sweet nap time moments
{don't mind those little stains on my shirt, i was always chowing down and spilling stuff on my belly}
rocking hunt when he was around 3 ish, maybe a tad older
ok, i know some people think this book is sad which it kinda is, but it's so sweet too! i would rock my boys till they were 50 if they let me
{sounds creepy, doesn't it? but i totally would, lol}
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