The torch ritual
On July 6, 2012
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It all started with a glow in the dark egg. Grace got some glow in the dark eggs after Easter, and one of them lay on the bookshelf next to her bed for a while. One night I decided it would be a good idea to turn off all the lights so that we could see how much light one of the eggs gave off – I thought we could use it as a kind-of torch so that Grace could easily find her night light to turn it on.
And from then on the glowing egg has to be used every night to "find" the monitor.
But the glowing egg moved. It went to find a home in Grace's egg box in her washing station. Which meant we had a slight dilemma.
Fortunately the eggs came with a funky little blue-light torch which also conveniently sits on top of Grace's bookshelf. A slight re-direction and poof we have a night vision night light finder.
So now we have the nightly light turning off ritual:
- Turn off the main bedside light
- Find the torch in the dark
- Turn it on and shine it around, then shine it at the baby monitor lots
- Put the torch down and grope around in the dark for the monitor's on switch
- Turn on the monitor, then turn on the night light
- Get into bed.