Do you want to go night-night?

Claire is a funny girl. Last Thursday night we were at my grandmother's house in KS. My Aunt Evelyn was visiting w/ her children and it was getting to be 9pm, an hour past Noah and Claire's bedtime. I had already put on their overnight diapers, but wasn't in a big hurry to put them in bed because of our visitors and hey, it's vacation! Live a little!

Well, a little after 9, Claire started walking around the room and would stop and scream periodically. It wasn't her usual happy scream, it was more of a frustrated scream. I couldn't figure out what was wrong. Then she toddled out of the room and started screaming again. I got up and saw my cousins looking into the bedroom that we (Doug, Claire, and I) slept in. Claire was standing next to her bed (a pack-and-play), trying to climb in! I asked her, "Claire, do you want to go night-night?" She turned around to look at me w/ a relieved look on her face and pitifully said, "Peeeeez" while she rubbed her belly (sign language for "please"). The poor little thing!

I honored her request and she was asleep in 5 seconds.