We did put Peter down first. Bryan sang to him while I held Cooper in the next room, waiting. After a few minutes Bryan came in and asked for Cooper. I thought he wanted some good Daddy/Cooper snuggling, but instead he had decided to put Cooper in his bed with Peter still wide awake.
Cooper started screaming as soon as his head touched his sheet. Bryan said goodnight to both boys and left. I thought Peter would be out any minute to tell us that Cooper was crying. I was wrong though. After a few minutes I realized that Peter was singing Come, Come Ye Saints, one of the bedtime songs that we sing to him. He was trying to help Cooper calm down by singing to him. I was so touched by that sweet big-brother gesture that my eyes filled with tears.
Cooper kept wailing and Peter kept singing. As we listened from the living room we realized that Peter's words were slowing down and getting harder to understand. He was falling asleep. And Cooper had stopped crying. At one point we think Peter told Cooper a story, but we weren't close enough to hear the details.
After the singing and storytelling stopped we heard Cooper call to Peter. Cooper sings, it's distinct from when he's talking. As Cooper spoke to Peter it sounded for all world like Cooper was asking Peter to sing to him some more. Ten minutes later I crept to the doorway to check on them and saw that both boys were asleep. I'm fairly certain that counts as a miracle.
Of course the next two nights they cried each other to sleep, but I'll hope that that's the exception and not the rule.
The boys' room.
2 comments:
Ohh, that's so adorable! It's so fun to see your kids become friends with each other.
so cute!!!!!
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