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Thursday

elliot at bedtime

Elliot has trouble falling asleep (and Henry has trouble staying asleep). Tonight at bedtime, as I was lying down next to him, Elliot chattered and chattered. Some choice thoughts from E at bedtime:

-Mom, I'm way more hungry than sleepy. Can't you understand that?

-Mom, I caught a toad at recess today. He bit me.

-Mom, do you think the tooth fairy might leave my tooth AND leave me money tonight? I'd really like to keep my tooth.

-Mom, why can't I have a lacrosse stick as big as Henry's?

-Mom, when I grow up, I want to be a bum and live in a tent downtown

-Mom, that airsoft bb that Henry shot me with left a bad bruise and that's why I can't get to sleep

-Mom, I think it's silly that you make me take a bath every single night. Everyone else is way dirtier than I am. I feel different because you make me take so many baths.

-Mom, I think I'm just naturally good at dribbling the soccer ball. I was just born that way.

-Mom, why did the Ramones make a Christmas song?

-Mom, I'd like to have that job that makes the clouds into different shapes.

-Mom, can you explain evolution to me? Right now, just real fast before I fall asleep?

Elliot tries to duck for cover when he comes under fire from big brother Henry in tonight's backyard paintball game