Sunday morning Mike asked Boo if she was ready to get up and go downstairs. She’d been awake for a few, alerting us to this fact and telling us to get her up. Instead of raising her arms for Mike pick her up she laid down and said, “I tired, Ganpa.” It’s a game she enjoys playing first thing in the morning quite often. She chides you into coming to her and then she pretends to be “sweepy” and won’t get up.
It’s very cute unless you’ve got to pee in that way that makes you walk funny and pray you make it all the way to the bathroom before the dam bursts!
Mike reached in to uncover Boo while asking her, “Don’t you want to go downstairs?”. She followed up with, “I sweepy. I ti_urd, Ganpa”. I could hear the smile on her face as I rolled over, listening to them go back and forth as they played her little game. She has a Winnie-the-Pooh and a sock monkey that she sleeps with each night. When Mike gets her up in the mornings he gently puts both Pooh and the monkey on her pillow and tucks them in for the day.
“Sock monkey and Winnie-the-Pooh are tired, Boo. They’ve been up all night long watching over you while you sleep, keeping you safe, and now they want to go to sleep. They can’t until you get up. Don’t you want to go downstairs so they can go to sleep?”, he said.
I kid you not. She didn’t miss a beat, very matter-of-factly responded with this: “They’re toys, Ganpa.”
I haven’t laughed that hard in quite a while! Sometimes kids say the darndest things, no?