Funnies

A few cute moments from the last few days...

Thursday night when I put Benjamin to bed I had, of course, turned down his quilt & sheet, but when I checked on him before I went to bed later that evening he was sleeping on top of his neatly-made bed. Smiling and shaking my head I went to bed. In the middle of the night Benjamin woke me up because he had a bad dream. I took him out to the living room and sat with him for awhile. Once he woke up a little bit we started chatting (I trying to distract him from his fright) and one of the things he brought up was how excited he was that his friend Jesse was coming to play in the morning. (This was the play date to which he invited Jesse via invitation, mentioned in a previous post.) After a few minutes he was calmed down sufficiently to venture back to bed. I turned down his sheets (again!) and tucked him into bed. The next morning I heard Leila talking so as usual I slipped in to get her before she could wake up Benjamin and Talia. There was Benjamin, sleeping on his bed, which was AGAIN very neatly made. He slept in later than usual, presumably because he was awake in the middle of the night making his bed! When he finally came to the kitchen around 9:00 and joined us at the breakfast table, I brought it up. "Benj, why did you make your bed in the middle of the night last night?" "Well," he answered in all seriousness, "Jesse is coming today and I didn't want to be making my bed when he comes!"

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Talia asked me for juice at breakfast one day. We had already been sitting there for an hour and I was ready to be done so I told her "no, not today." "If I finish aaaaaaall my cereal and aaaaaaall my milk?," she persisted. "No, sorry, not today." Evidently she didn't get the message. A few minutes later she finished the last gulp of milk and I excused her from the table. "But Mom!," she protested, "what about our juice deal?"