Kitten’s Evening Syllabus

Supper: check
Dora the Explorer: check
Go see the Christmas Tree (which is really cool): check
Munch chips like pacman: check
Watch Blues Clues: check
Go see the Christmas Tree: check
Go see ‘mah room’: check
Go see ‘mormor’s room’: check
Play ‘wake up Uncle Doyce’ for about ten minutes: check.
Run away from the very idea of bath time: check
Suggest alternative plan of going and looking at the Christmas Tree: check
Reluctantly enter bathroom, all the while denying you are in any way agreeing to a bath: check
Get into tub, still protesting: check
Water fight: check
Shampoo: che-WAITAMINUTE
Screaming like a banshee: check
Screaming like a banshee: check
Screaming like a banshee: check
Getting water poured on head to remove shampoo: che-HEY!
Screaming like a banshee: check
Screaming like a banshee: check
Screaming like a banshee: check
Water fight, but still sniffling: check
Towel off: check
Run around nekkid for two or three minutes while Uncle Doyce stoically presents a dry towel for use: check
Show Uncle Doyce where your shorts, pajamas and yes even toothpaste and toothbrush are. Utilize all three in proper order: check
Laugh at silly messed up hair: check
Climb into bed, demand milk: check
Read book, exclaming aloud at all the right parts: check
Crash into a deep deep slumber exactly halfway through your next argument that you’re not tired.: Check.

Game, set and Match.

At the end, she was physically pulling open her own eyelids to stay awake, all the while protesting my departure from the room. She managed one half-hearted ‘no’ as I closed the door and that, ladies and gentleman, was all she wrote.

I do believe I tired her out :)

Her side of the story: while I was buttoning the shoulder on her pajamas, she reached over and grabbed a handful of my (soaked) sweater. “I got you,” she announced, pulling at the wet cloth so I could see. “I got you good.”

"My World and Welcome To It."

"We refuse to fall asleep./We refuse to fall asleep./We've decided one and all/that we're never gonna fall/a-/sleep!"

So yesterday, I get home and my mother looks at me and says, "I am going to make the next two hours of your life miserable." I looked up at her. "As miserable as the last two have been for me because you kept the kids up until midnight." They were apparently in bed when I got home.

I looked at her aghast. "You think I _deliberately_ kept THEM up until midnight? No, no, no."

"You didn't say, around 9:30pm, 'It's time for bed.'"

I was having none of that. "No, around 9:30pm I said, `It's time for bed.' And the Barbarian and the Chatterbox said, 'Bouncity-bounce-bounce. But we're not tired. And we're being good.' And Rainbow K said, 'We're not done with the character diaries.' At 10:00pm I said, 'I'm tired, it's time for bed.' And they said, 'Bouncity-Bounce-Bounce. One more days worth of diary, PLEEEEEASE.' And at 10:30pm I said, 'No, guys, really, I'm tired.' And they said, 'Bounce-bounce-bounce. We're not. We looooooooooove you. Stay up with us?' And at 11:00pm I said, 'I'm not kidding. It's late. It's bed time.' And they said, 'Bounce-bounce-bounce, but we're almost done!' And at 11:30pm I said, 'Alright, I'm going to bed, with or without you.' And they said, 'Can we all sleep with you?' And I said yes. And at midnight, they said, `Bounce-bounce. We know all the lyrics to the SpongeBob SquarePants song.' And you know what? So do I, now. Do you think I have some magic wand of sleep? I don't. Do you think I want to stay up until midnight? I don't. I wanted to get to bed early for once."

She let me take a nap.

Sounds like a down right fun evening to me! :-D

Hee Hee I love it!!!
Especially the way you describe it Doyce. LOL