Another reason why

For the past four or five nights the monkey has gone to bed really easily and has been sleeping through the night.  (I hope I'm not jinxing us.)  The mister started something with the monkey that is just so sweet and I think that it's the reason for the calmness at bedtime.  Every night now we're sitting on the couch in the near darkness with the windows open listening to the various evening noises.  Crickets, dogs barking, fire trucks, planes, the wind through the palm trees out back.  And the monkey just calms down and listens and talks and hugs.  It is so sweet.  After about 15 minutes we say, Okay, time for night night.  And he says, Yea, okay.  And then he either walks with us or gets picked up and put in his crib in his room.  And that's it.  Totally calm, totally sweet.  I could just eat him.  And I credit the mister with this new sweet ritual.  Nice job, Da Da.