I've put the children to bed. Can I go to bed now? I am so sleepy. They have a dinner time cookie time on Fridays and a song for bathroom time and a special rhyme that keeps them safe in their bubble all night long. I want that. I wish somebody would tuck me in.

Lincoln, the four year old, declared before going to bed, "I like you. You are allowed to come back." I thanked him and told him I would love to come back, but Maggie, the two (almost three) year old said, "No. She can't come back because I don't like her." I said, "I'm sorry you don't like me, Maggie. I won't come back if you don't want me to. But why don't you like me?" "Because," she said, "your earring is all bent and why are you wearing earrings but not a necklace?"

Also, Maggie is under the impression that she does not have to wear a diaper at night because she is a girl and has a China but Lincoln has to because he is a boy and has an eenis. I told her I didn't realize that's how it worked, and she told me that from now on I don't have to wear my diaper to bed if I have a China. Thanks, Maggie. I'll keep that in mind.

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