Praying for Naps

I've been trying to get Elena on some sort of regular schedule, to bring order to our lives and (hopefully) make potty training easier when I get to enforcing that sort of thing (we're doing diaper changes with a potty-sit in the middle--advice?). So, for the last three days I've continued naps for both children, in the afternoons. Since Elena and Joseph like each other so much, though, I have to seperate them or neither gets any sleep. That means Elena naps in my bed. To get her settled down, we do a naptime routine similar to the one at night, complete with a fun song and a prayer. Elena loves to pray, so she's been getting lots of practice, lately. Yesterday, she said almost the entire prayer by herself: "(prompt: *Dear Heavenly Father...*)Dear Heavenly Father, so He can hear you; (*thank Thee for...*) Thank-ee Mommy, Thank-ee Joseph, Thank-ee Simon,Thank-ee Gwamma and Popa, Thank-ee Uncle Rick and Aunt Sherry, Thank-ee Mena and Mommy feel better, (*please bless...*) Pease-bess Mommy and Mena feel better, Pease-bess Daddy at work, (*in the name of Jesus Christ...*) Amen!" In to bed she went, and came out two minutes later. She wanted me to boot Simon from the room. A few minutes later, I hear my door open, but nothing else. When Joseph woke up an hour later, I saw that my door was still open, so I poked my head in and saw this.


Yes, those are my glasses.

So, for all you relatives out there, Elena remembers you in her prayers, at one point or another.