Many times did the little girl fall asleep between bites at meal time. Her teacher even had a story of her seemingly fine at lunch one minute but nodding and falling off her chair the next. Last month her father called me upstairs to see the child curled up on the diaper changing station with her arm outstretched for nail clipping and completely asleep. None of this, though, compared to last night.
Evelyn skipped nap yesterday. No matter how many stories I told, she would not fall asleep at nap time. But as the day wears on, her energy level began to drop quickly. Temper became shorter, and tears came easier. Seeing how tired she was, I rushed her and her father upstairs for a bath as soon as she finished the last bite of her dinner. As I was cleaning up the dishes, the little girl's father hollered from upstairs for help. I stepped into the bathroom to find the little girl sitting in her bath with her head tilted back for her father to pour water over, and her eyes closed. Hearing me, she opened her sleepy eyes for a lazy glance, closed them again, and commenced to nod off, right there, in her bath water. "Oh dear!" I exclaimed, as we hurriedly maneuvered the sleeping girl so we could finish soaping and rinsing her off. When her father lifted her out of the bath, she snuggled into his shoulder and thoroughly gave herself up to a deep sleep. The loud blast and hot air of the hair dryer could not even stir her. Apparently, this is one little girl who refuses to sleep until she could no longer hold it off, and then she surrenders to it no mater the circumstance.
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