We see each other every single day, many hours a day, and yet all of a sudden we get slapped in the face with the realization of how big they have gotten. Yesterday one of them or both would come to my bed almost every night, they would ask me to sing lullabies until they were fast asleep. Now Coline starts asking on Monday afternoon to please go for a sleep over at her friend´s.

How her first sleep over happened is quite a story. She left home one saturday afternoon and declared she would stay for the night at her friend´s house. And she did, until 10 pm when she declared that she was actually going to sleep in her mummy´s car, so please give her a call and let her know about the new pick up arrangement. Coline does not get upset or scared in such situations. She announces her decisions softly and firmly and generally gets the message accross that indeed, what she says is how things are going to happen, and it did, I picked her up.

When she asked to repeat the experiment the next day I was not up for it, and instead suggested that she spent the next five days showing me (and herself) that she could fall asleep without me. We cut out a colored paper star every morning following her successfully falling asleep by herself, she proudly stuck it up on the wall by her bed and on the next Friday she went back to her friend´s, spent the night and the next morning, proud and happy to have such a vibrant friendship of her own.