I'm a big fan of having a few laughs at bedtime and DD is a big joker so I just thought I'd start a thread sharing what things our babies/toddlers get a kick out of at bedtime. BTW, I know that some childhood experts don't recommend this and think that it can get them too over-excited but pffft to them, it doesn't interfere with DD going to sleep.

When she was just a few months old, I noticed that she would smile and laugh when I got her wrap ready and sort of shooshed it in the air before putting it on the bed. So that was our first laugh.

When she got a little older, she would roll on to her tummy in her cot and bang her feet up and down - that's her sign that she wants a tickle. So we would have big tickles.

We also have upside down kisses with dad where he will sit on the couch and I will run (it's not really a 'run') holiding DD upside down and he will smother her in kisses.

Now her latest thing is that when she's in her cot, she pokes her hands out of each of the gaps in turn and I have to shake her hand and say "hello, how do you do, pleased to meet you." She loves it. Then when we're finished, I have to say, "is it sleepy time now?" And she makes a big show of nodding her head. So we do that a few times too.

Ahhhh ... bedtime. Sometimes takes a while but I always walk out feeling so lucky to have her.