FoxMom23's Blog

   My husband and I went up to bed around 11:15 the other night, and were still awake enough that we decided to watch the new FOX comedy Back to You, which we had TiVO'd. We no sooner finished watching it, when we heard a soft thud from our 3 ½ year old’s  room, which we recognized as the sound of him getting out of bed. So I got out of bed and tried to get to his room before he could make it into ours. (We still had our lights and the TV on, and I was afraid all the light would wake him up fully). So I met him at his bedroom door, picked him up and he looked at me and said "Mama, are you and Daddy resting in your bed?" I told him we were, gave him a hug and kiss, and asked him if he'd like me to put him back in his bed. He said, "No, I'd like to come in your room." So, my husband shut everything off and I brought him into our room for what we figured would be a few minutes before he would fall back asleep or want to go back into his room. 

   Well, I thought wrong. As soon as I laid him down on my pillow, he said "I Love You Guys. I Love Mama and Daddy and My Brother." We told him we loved him too, and thought he was then ready to go to sleep. But instead, he told us he was thirsty.  So my husband got up and got the cup of apple cider from our son’s room, handed it to him, and he took a long sip. But all the while he was sipping, his straw was making a high pitched hissing kind of sound, which was making my husband and I crack up, because it sounded so loud in the quiet house. So, he finished his sip and said "Cinnamon! That was great cinnamon apple cider from Wal-Mart!! Thank you for giving me the great apple cider!! I love it!!"  At this point, my husband and I were laughing pretty hard, but we started laughing even harder as my son kept talking about how much he loved the taste of the apple cider and then, out of the blue, said “I like it. I love it. I want some more of it.” And kept repeating it!! Needless to say we were laughing so hard we were crying!!

    So then my husband jokingly said something about Santa bringing just Apple Cider for Christmas, and our son said "Noooo, Daddy." (From the smile I could just make out on his face, it was obvious that he knew my husband was joking.)   So I said, "No, Daddy, Santa can bring the boys toys and other presents, too." And our son pipes up with "Yeah, Santa can bring us blocks, and magnets, and trains, and puzzles..." and he basically listed every type of toy that he and his brother had played with over the last week or so!!!  My husband and I were still cracking up at this point (we never stopped laughing) because our son was half asleep half awake, but was just being soooo darn cute!! 

   Then we told him that it was time to be quiet and go to sleep, and he asked for another sip of his juice cup, which of course made the high pitched hissing noise again, which naturally sent the three of us back into hysterics. And so of course our son started talking again (don't remember what he said this time because we were still laughing and trying to get us all calmed down). Then finally, we calmed down, he hugged us laid down for a minute and then said "My Room." So I said "What about your room?" He says "Mama, do you want to come in my room with me? Let's go to my room.” And finally, after a few more minutes, once I had gotten up enough energy to get up, I brought him into his room, covered him up, kissed him, and in about 3 minutes he had fallen sound asleep!  The whole thing was just so funny that when I got back into our room my husband and I still laughed about it for a few minutes before we eventually fell asleep too!