Bedtime Observations

Our kids always have something to say at bedtime.  Miles usually says something about a hypothetical situation or idea he has for an invention.  Emily and Lucy pour on the compliments.  Just as the door is about to close, Lucy always says, "You are the best mom in the whole world!"  She waits until that moment so I'll have to open the door again to respond.

Once when Miles was about four he and Matt were reading a bedtime story.  Miles said, "Dad, I have something to tell you.  Your breath doesn't smell very good....did that hurt your feelings?"  To which Matt responded, "No, you're a lot nicer than your mother would have been."

So tonight as Matt was tucking Emily into bed, she observed, "Dad, if you weren't in our family, I wouldn't laugh nearly as much."  Then she added, "And Mom wouldn't get mad nearly as often."  (I think she's referring to the literary license Matt takes while reading books to them and my responses from the other room.) Matt replied, "Yeah, but she wouldn't laugh nearly as often either."

Well said.