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I’m putting the girls to bed right now… around 7:45pm. I started the process around 7:35 after teeth-brushing. Read a book each for the girls (More Cat in the Hat for Lela — darn Dr. Seuss made his books long!). And now starts the fun.

Piper is notorious (in our household, at least) for dragging out bedtime. So far these are the conversations I’ve had:

7:38pm: Piper: “I want my baby reba.” (Rebe is her elephant)
Jason: “You’re holding baby reba.”
Piper: “No, my grumpy baby Reba.”

7:39pm: after locating grumpy baby Reba I return to Piper:
Jason: “Here’s your baby Reba. Now it’s time for bed. You cannot get out of your bed anymore, ok?”
Piper: “Ok!”
Jason: “Do you understand you cannot get out of bed?”
Piper: “Yes, I understand!”

7:41pm: I hear the door open. I know it’s Piper. Lela *never* comes out. She either sends Piper out for her, or she ‘suggests’ to Piper (in a Jedi-like manner I’m sure) to go out. Anyhow. Door opened.
Jason: “Piper, are you supposed to get out of bed?”
Piper: “Nope. Lela wants her star sheets on her and I want the soft side of my blanket on me.”
Jason: “In bed.”
Piper: “Ok!”

I of course put Lela’s star sheets on her and take a guess on which side is the “soft” side of Piper’s blanket. This time I guessed right.

7:48pm: All is quiet. Except for the clickety clack of Otto wandering about looking for stray food, socks, or stuffed animals left below the 4-ft high OttoZone. Something must be up in the bedroom. Luckily Landis is asleep in our bedroom already so I’m not having to juggle three kids.

7:51pm: I knew it! I hear the door:
Piper: “Hi Dad!”
Jason: “In bed.”
Piper: “Is mommy there?”
Jason: “No. Now you cannot get out of bed.”
Piper: “Ok!”

I’m not quite sure she’s grasped the definition of ‘cannot’. Interesting.

7:57pm: Good news… Landis is up! I shouldn’t have said anything!