The children have just got to bed, a little later than usual (it's 7:25 as I write, Kaely's asleep, Liam's light's just gone out, after he finished reading me a chapter (and a bit more, because I am weak and wanted to know what came next just as much as he did) of his current book), because they were playing so well after dinner. You might think that means we hated to disturb them, but really it means we hated to disturb ourselves when they were playing happily in the other room!
Mikaela took two baby monsters with her to bed tonight. At first she was playing a game of running away from the monster, "It's going to get me. Quick!" But then suddenly it became a baby monster who she had to hold in her arms and rock to sleep. And then the baby monster wanted to sit on her shoulder while she made a bed for it on Liam's bed (where she thought she might sleep too.)
What I found particularly interesting was that she evidently told Liam they could share the baby monster, but then when he wanted it to sit on his shoulder (this is a bit later on, after teeth cleaning when we were all in his room), and she wanted to hold it, it took him quite a while to come up with "Oh, here's my other baby monster under the bed, he wants to sit on my shoulder." For a while it looked like it may all end in tears because both of them wanted to hold their new imaginary friend at the same time.
Then Mikaela was suddenly holding both (they wanted to be together you see, and Liam was busy reading to me), so I told Liam that was another one, and as she took them away to her room he got another one (or two?) out from under his bed to sleep with him.
Also, Mikaela did not want to go into her room, she wanted to stay in Liam's bed, but when I said, "The baby monsters want to go into your room now, they told me," she ran off happily.
