Rowan's midnight autonomy
Last night I woke up to (you know, do the thing I do about five times per night now that I'm six months pregnant). I was lying in bed for a while, about to go back to sleep, when I heard the unmistakable sound of footsteps on the floor above us, where Rowan's "big boy" room had moved several months ago. I expected that the footsteps would continue down the stairs and walk into our room to ask for something, but they didn't. They stepped a few more steps, opened a door, raised a toilet seat, went pee-pee, flushed the potty, stepped back and closed the bedroom door! Rowan had been telling me for a long time that he gets up in the middle of the night to go pee-pee on his own, but I'd never had any real evidence of it. (I guess the indirect evidence is that he has never wet the bed, even after being out of pull-ups at night for well over a year.) I was so excited once I realized what he was doing that I rousted Tom from a deep slumber to report the development. (Which Tom reports was most annoying. And he adds as I am typing this that he never really went back to sleep and is quite tired now.) But this doesn't mitigate my excitement! :)
Rowan gets himself dressed for preschool (although shoes on the wrong feet are still a challenge), brushes his own teeth, goes potty and washes his hands by himself, and really helps out with straightening the house (although putting away his toys often turns into playtime for him, requiring a bit of nagging from Mom or Dad). We're so excited about what a big helper he'll be when his baby brother arrives.