Sleep connections

It seems over the last few days Anya has come to a realization: that she is not the only one who sleeps. It's one of those things I never thought about, just sort of figured she understood --- but of course, why would she?

I think the start of it was the other day (or perhaps when I or Chris would lay down on the living room floor, who knows). We were in my/Chris' bedroom. Anya pointed to the bed and said night-night. Sleepy. and then wanted up on the bed. She laid her head on the pillow and said mama, dada, night-night, pointed at the pillow/bed and then said various combinations of mama, dada, night-night, pillow, sleepy, Laika for several minutes. I could see the wheels spinning in her head and she was making some sort of connection. Who knows exactly what that connection was, but it was one nonetheless.

Today (so far) she has been rather obsessed with talking about sleep. She keeps wanting to read this book my mom got her about cats. In it there are pictures of cats sleeping. She flips to the pages and says kitty, sleepy and/or night-night. And has been pointing to the dog and cats when they are sleeping and saying the same thing. Kinda cool. I get a kick out of watching her figure things out.

Yes, little girl. Other people/animals sleep. Now I'm hoping she'll soon make the leap that at night we want to sleep and that she should be quiet and not wake us up. And sleep later than 6am while she's at it.