Good girl

Sometimes Peyton's behavior makes me wonder how I got so lucky with such a good kid. For months she's been a champ at staying in bed until her green light comes on. But over the past couple of weekends, she has shown us that she really is growing up and becoming indepdent.

On the weekends, instead of bounding into our room the second the light turns green, she goes straight into her toy room and plays by herself for at least 30 minutes. I'm usually awake anyway (I can hear her open her door and make her way down the hallway), so the other morning I peeked at the monitor we have in the toy room to find this:

Peyton was sitting comfortably at her table, tracing letters in a Doc McStuffins workbook, watching TV. I asked her later that morning what she was doing and she replied, "letting you and Daddy sleep."

Love.