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Current mood:  exhausted Category: Life
While my son heads off to bed all on his own, my daughter on the other hand looks for reasons to stay up. She's four after all, and at that age I know she's certain she'll miss out on some "big people" fun if she dozes off too soon.
The result however, is that I'm up at ridiculous hours and so is she. Just now, I sent her back to bed for the 50th time, despite her protests that we needed to buy a birthday card for grandma even though she has no clue when grandma's birthday is.
Interestingly though, one of her grandmas does actually have a birthday coming in about two weeks but we haven't mentioned that to her so I can only assume its her psychic abilities kicking in, which is another blog entirely.
Now, I understand that at four, her little brain is buzzin, busy soaking up anything and everything that might be going on around her. It doesn't matter if she's looking at you - she hears everything you say, even those quiet little whispers when my hubby and I try to sneak back into the bedroom for some "quiet time" while she watches Blues Clues and The Backyardigans. Don't give me that look - if you don't have kids, you simply cannot understand: they have radar. They know when you're trying to get a little action and they will summon all the dark forces to make sure it doesn't happen. That too, is another blog entirely.
So, why isn't my little angel going to sleep tonight?
Here's the reasons I've gotten thus far:
"I don't like these bajamas.. I want pink ones!" (no, I didn't misspell - that's how she says it)
"The zombies come out at night and sleep in the day. I don't like them." (don't ask me - we got rid of our zombies years before she was even born.)
"Remember when Sponge Bob told Patrick he was a dork? Mama, what's a dork?"
"I have to go to the bathroom."
"I have a headache" (points to her stomach). "I need some medicine."
"Can I have the Princess Playhouse? We can get it at Wal-Mark."
"My babies won't let me sleep. They keep making noise."
"There's a monster in my room who tries to kick my butt with a flyswatter." (okay, the "kick my butt" is totally mine, but its better than "ass" coming out of a 4-year old and the flyswatter hasn't ever really happened - I've just threatened it on occassion when she decided to test her limits.)
"I wanna sing you a nite-nite song" (guitar in hand)
"I've got work to do." (obviously, she hangs around me way too much)
"My brother won't let me sleep." (Big brother snoring in the next room)
And when everything else fails... "but I neeeeeeeed you".
Ah well... how can I say no?
4:26 AM
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