So Beckett turns really irate when she is sleepy. She doesn't like being confined to the boring bedroom and needs a special routine to fall asleep. She has a clear cut time bound escalation mechanism to ensure that her bidding is done. At first she politely gives you the look, then babbles. If that doesn't elicit an appropriate reciprocation, she shouts; and then when you have finally got her goat, she will unleash the big banshee guns.
Essentially she wants to be picked up and rocked in a swaying motion till she falls asleep. You can see the illustration below.
Some clarifications:
1. At no point does she leave my or her grandfather's hands during this routine. Although it looks like it, there is no levitation involved in this tehcnique.
2. In step 3, it is my beard that has grown considerably.
So there is an upside and a downside to this routine.
Upside: Great biceps.
Downside: Bad compulsive addiction, extremely time consuming and need to master another landing technique to avoid a painful Promethean perplexing perpetuating process (because once she falls asleep, she has to be put in her bed eventually; and that is the most difficult part).
Pappa is trying to unlearn and learn faster than she can, but has a tough time keeping up. Mummy has become a pro by now.
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