"Don't forget to go to sleep!"

Ellie is full of opinions and instructions these days. She loves to make comments like, "Daddy, why do you have hair in your nose?" and "Mommy, what do you smell like?" Tonight she was in rare form. We were playing with a ball painted to look like an eyeball, and she asked it, "Eyeball, where is the whole rest of your body?" Naturally, we had a big discussion of where its body was likely to be. In the end, Ellie decided it must be back at the eye doctor's office, since she was given the eyeball as part of a goody bag at the end of a trip to the ophthalmologist.

As we were getting her ready for bed, she had one last piece of instruction for her father. "Daddy, don't forget to go to sleep," she said. Stinker. She never reminds us about the important things, like "Don't forget to buckle my car seat straps" or "Don't forget your wallet and keys" but she's happy to remind us to go to sleep. Daddy said, "Oh, right. I was just going to lie in bed with my eyes wide open all night! I'm so glad you reminded me!"