Bedtime? Or Not...

We've been reading for about 15minutes before bed each night and it's been going so smooth! Tonight was a little different story.

We were reading a book called "Who Do You Love?" and each page has a picture of a bear with a different texture on it's tummy.* While I was reading the book Evelyn began scooting herself off of my lap towards the floor. To entertain her I started rubbing the furry part of the bear on her cheek while I was gangster rapping the words, which she found quite humorous. She was now laying on my legs, scooted almost to the floor so I started wiggling my legs around making her laugh even more. Once on the floor I proceeded to poke her while still doing my rap voice. She was getting pretty giddy. To settle down, she sat on my lap, facing me and I started to sing. She relaxed for a minute then looked up, smiling, and fish-hooked my mouth with two fingers. I kept singing, trying to ignore this and she found it hilarious. I couldn't help but start to laugh myself. That's when everything went out of control! She threw herself backwards-and no, not another injury like I'm sure some of you are thinking (Karen). She was on my lap, facing me with her upper body bent backwards, arms dangling towards the floor. I lightly tickled her armpits and she went crazy! Hysterical laughter like I've never heard from her! I continued the tickling and we were both laughing so hard! It was such a blast. Finally! I decided it was seriously bed time. We cuddled a few minutes until her heart rate came down. The entire time I was thinking, "Man, there is NO way she is going to bed tonight!" But to my surprise, after about 3minutes of cuddling I laid her in bed and she rolled to her side (her sleep position) and I never heard a peep out of her. It was amazing! I don't know how I got so lucky.

*The book talks about loving your mom, dad, grandma, brother and sister. But my Aunt Lori, who gave Evelyn the book, crossed out brother and sister and wrote Great Uncle John and Great Aunt Lor Lor. (Just wanted to throw that in, cute idea!)