Bed Time Logic

It is absolutely incredible. This book hits the nail on the head in regards and children going to sleep.

I am going to share what happened tonight. This is pretty indicative of most nights in the Davis house hold.

10 minutes before we go to bed I let the kids have one last snack and water before we start our bed time routine. We then read scriptures, say a prayer, then put on jammies, and brush teeth, and go to the bathroom.

Here are the comments I have heard so far tonight.

Madeline: "She (meaning Adele) was scared of the monsters and I said, I am not a monster, I am Madeline. Don't call me a monster. Daddy Adele called me a monster. I am not a monster. I am Madeline."

She repeated this for about 5-10 mins.

Adele, "I am scared."

Zoe, "Boo-Boo-Boo" This is only even more humorous because Adele is "scared" Maddy is saying she is not a monster and Zoe is repeating "boo-boo-boo" which for her means she wants to breast feed (Naomi is almost done weaning her off :-)

Hyrum talks a lot. But after about 5 minutes of normal complaining, you know, I am hungry, I am thirsty, I am not tired, he spouted this one liner out. "I think I am turning white."

He seemed really disturbed by this. It took a lot not to start laughing at this point.

Then Naomi had gotten home from going to the movies with a friend. Of course Zoe jumped out of bed to see her. She got the girls settled back in and then she went to say good night to Hyrum. She then told him she would be "right back", and then she left for the rest room and went back bed.

I was sitting at the computer playing Baloons Monkey City and writing the blog. I tend to stay in the living room to ensure the girls don't come out. I go "super nanny" on them and pick them up and put them right back in their beds.  As I was sitting at the computer Hyrum continually asked. "when is mommy coming back, she said she was coming right back." After about 5 mins of this I finally said, hey if you clean the living room (which we had cleaned earlier but has since been made quite the mess) you can go lay down with mom. He said "deal". Not remembering how messy the living room was he came out and said " oh man". I felt bad so I told him to just go to our room and go lay down.

Then Naomi kicked him out telling him to go put on his pajamas. (Earlier I told him to do that but he decided to play with his toys so I stripped him to his boxer shorts and tucked him in). So he ran in gleefuly put on his pajamas and went back to my room.

All of this may not seem that humorous. But what you don't realize is that he has been non stop talking to my wife for nearly 1/2 hour with out stop. It is amazing. I sit here and chuckle and the only thing I can think of is if that was me in there I would say,

Go the **** to sleep. :-)