Is the music on??

Ever since Kylie was little she has had an iPod alarm clock radio in her room.  We used to play Little Einstein’s songs, Jewel, Enya songs to soothe her to sleep.  We felt the music did the job, perhaps because we fell asleep listening to it through the monitor.

In the last few weeks we have left her room confused, sad and perplexed.  Every night she says her goodnights, tells you what she wants for breakfast the next day, the book she wants to read tomorrow night, the order of the activities for the day, whatever it may be.  Then she gives you a hug and kisses and says goodnight.  Lastly she takes off her princess ears.  The last few weeks after she takes off the princess ears she looks right at you and says, “Did you turn the music on?” 

Think about it for a second, she can’t hear anything.  She has to ask you if you turned it on because she can’t hear it to validate if it is on or not and you stand there thinking. What do you do?? One side says you could say sure is and off you go but that would wrong.  You turn it on even though she can’t hear it because that is the right thing to do.  So tonight as we walked out of her room we set the sleep timer and on came the music maybe more for our benefit than hers.  However, she can’t go to sleep at night if the music isn’t on.  In her mind it is a check off her list before she goes to sleep.  Blanket – Check, Kisses – Check, Music on Check.  Sleep is next.  While it does leave us perplexed… she is always Smiley Kylie!