Thursday, June 26, 2008

Blankies and Bedtime Stories and Dinosaurs, Oh my!

Lately Liam has added something to his bedtime ritual. He is so good at bedtime and has a pretty even ritual of pjs, brushing teeth, story, song, prayers, then bed. He goes right down, sweetly says good night and we rarely hear a peep from him until morning. Knock on wood. That mostly remains unchanged - but now he has added another little quirk that has been going on for days now and progressed to the following scene last night: 

The Scene:

Door gently closes after Liam's bedtime. I move into Kate's room for her bedtime ritual. Where silence used to reign, now Liam calls out with great insistence:

"THERE IS A DINOSAUR IN MY ROOM!!!!!"

I at first gently told him "There are no dinosaurs are in your room, Liam."

"BUT MOM THERE IS A DINOSAUR IN MY ROOM!!!!!"

Then I added "No dinosaurs are allowed in our house, buddy. They know not to come in here!"

"MOMMY!!! I SEE A DINOSAUR IN MY ROOM!!!!!"

Being a sucker, I went in, did a quick check for dinosaurs, and declared the room dinosaur free.

"MOM! THE DINOSAUR IS HERE! THE DINOSAUR IS HERE!!!!"

Last night Little Miss Kate, fed up apparently, marched over to Liam's closed door and put her face right up to the crack in the door and declared with great emphasis "BUDDY, there are NOT dinosaurs in your room. That is IMPOSSIBLE, buddy, because DINOSAURS are EXTINCT."

No more dinosaur talk. Just leave it to Kate.

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