Nighttime Routine

Best. Sounds. Ever.

CHECKLIST
Dinner- check.
Outside exercise- check.
Detox bath for Demps and shower for Sawyer- check.
Essential oil regimen for Demps- check.
Essential oil diffuser full and on (thanks to Sawyer)- check.
Jammies for boys (picked out by Sawyer)- check.
Teeth brushed- Sawyer- check.
JellyTelly show (currently Owlegories)- check.
Nighttime smoothie for Demps- check.
Teeth brushed- Dempsey- check.
Tucked into bed- check.
Prayer- check.

I had gotten the boys all set for bed. Prayed over them. Then the ginger one stealthily gets out of his bunk and shimmies over to the closet. I sneak a kiss and gently tuck him in the dark, behind the closet doors.

Jake comes in the front door just in time to do prayer time with the boys. (Wednesdays are his long work day). As I pass him in the hall I rather loudly state that "Sawyer is ready for you." A few seconds later Jake smiles because he "got" my meaning. *snicker*

Jake goes into the boys' room and lays it on THICK. I love to watch and listen to him to this Daddy thing because he does it with gusto. Makes this woman proud to be united to a man of this caliber for life! Jake says, "Well, there's Sawyer, all ready for bed." Some other chit chat that excludes Dempsey continues. Sawyer loves this part too...

Then, all of the sudden, I hear "BOO!" And Jake lets out a gaspy "Oh!" and goes on and on about how Dempsey scared him and how Dempsey was hiding. Dempsey, meanwhile, is just giggling his little heart out.

At times I think, he has to know we're smarter than that... but most of the time, we'll toss whatever little bit of dignity we have left to the wind in order to hear our child(ren) laugh.

Some days I am just OVER the bodily humor. Poop. Fart. Pee. Butt. Burp. Snort. When you hear it all.... day.... long.... you lose the enthusiasm you were already running low on. BUT, when this humor gets your little ones roaring with laughter, faces so red, bodies hardly able to inhale oxygen... you will do more of it than you will ever admit because THAT SOUND IS HEAVEN.