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!
