Pretty Cute for a non-morning person

This morning when Luthien woke up, she found a book in the bed and sat reading to herself for at least 15 minutes. She was quite happy and chattery, which was absolutely cute because usually when she wakes up to find herself alone in bed she cries until one of us goes in after her.

I must be doing something right, if she already enjoys looking at books to amuse herself! It was a little I Spy board book.

She came to our bed last night at abou 11:30, shortly after I went to bed. She bumped into the wall her bed is up against and then kicked it repeatedly. That wall is also where her uncle's headboard is on the other side. Unfortunately, there's really no way to rearrange her room to put the bed somewhere else. It's 3 big pieces of furniture: her 6' square cubby bookshelf, large dresser, and bed.

I would like to get her a different bed frame; Ikea has a cool one that can reverse to be a mini-loft or a canopy bed. I think she'd really like it. But we certainly won't have the money any time this spring or summer.

I try to do little things to make her room more appealing. I'm planning to take the Frog calendar she picked out and re-using the pictures in her room. She's really been into frogs the past couple of months. Better than Thomas the Tank Engine, that's for sure!