Keepin' me up at night

Kate's piano recital was tonight. I forgot my camera for the SECOND YEAR IN A ROW! I just lost my mother of the year nomination. Again. She was darling. Really, I looked at her while she was watching the other performers and was overwhelmed with how darling my nine year old baby is. I even wiped away a little tear. She was cute getting ready for the recital. She let me fix her hair - this is worth remarking because she mostly just refuses my pleas. (that looks misspelled - plural plea is pleas, isn't it?) Then she was very concerned about lathering up her bare legs with smelly lotion. She reapplied right before we went into the recital as well. Aaaah me, she is trying to grow up.

Emmy, on the other hand, was a noisy terror. She and I spent most of the recital out in the hall.

The whole reason I bring up the recital is to say that the kids got to bed late. 8:30 is my target bedtime, earlier is better. The recital ended at 8:20. Everyone was brushed and prayed and tucked and kissed by 9:15. So I get on the computer and begin perusing this and that. At 9:45 Aaron shows up in the office.
"Mom, I can't sleep."

"Aaron, go to bed," I pause, thinking I'll send him upstairs to let the other parent in the house deal with it, "Go up and give dad a kiss if you need to."

"But Mom, I can't sleep."

"Why?" I wonder what tonight's version of the same story is - scary lights in the bedroom, thinking about a video game, etc...

"Because I am thinking too much about Disneyland."

It made me laugh so hard I had to take a picture of him. If you know me, you may know that Disneyland is my second or third favorite place in the world, but it certainly doesn't keep me up at night. Aaron laughed too. And that, my friends, is the face I am blessed to see every day.

I know, he needs a haircut. We have issues there.