Sugar Before Bed

Last night DD finally finished most of her dinner so we offered to let her have some cake. She’d gone with me to the grocery earlier in the day and we had picked out a small cake to have for dessert. She called it her birthday cake (she knows that her birthday is coming too). She cleaned the cake of all it’s icing – obviously her favorite part. I believe she did take one bite out of the cake part but then she was done. We’d had dinner late (again) so it was practically time to get ready for bed the moment she finished eating. I let her play for a bit though – good thing, bad – I don’t know. Twenty minutes later we began the bedtime ritual of teeth brushing, potty time, pjs and story time. DD never likes to get ready for bed but due to ingestion of sugar, we had an even more enjoyable time – duh! All in all, there have been other times that were much more difficult to get through though.