Naptime

Now that it's summer and we're staying up later each night, my little Isaac has been insistent upon getting in a good nap. Around 2:00 each day, he begins sucking his thumb and saying, "Mommy, can I PWLEASE have my bunk bed?" Then he'll sleep for a good 3 hours or so and let me know he's awake by knocking softly on his bedroom door and saying quietly, "Mommy, I'm awake now!"

So today when I heard the familiar knock, I thought he had just woken up. I opened the door to be greeted by this little monster: Apparently, Isaac had woken up and decided to tear everything out of his cupboard - only to reveal a pack of markers he hadn't used in a while. He had colored EVERYTHING - the walls, the floor, the rocking chair, each of his favorite toys, the mirror, and himself. Grrr. I put him in a big timeout while I got out the cleaning supplies.

When I came back in, he looked at me with big tears in his eyes, pulled his thumb out of his mouth and said, "Mommy? Am I in big twroublwe?" I said sternly, "Yes Isaac, making a big mess like this is very naughty." He whimpered a little bit, snuggled into my lap and with all the bravery he could muster, said, "Awre you going to flwush me down the toilwet?"

I don't know where he got the idea that naughty little boys get flushed down the toilet, but it was enough to break the ice and make us both giggle as we spent the next hour scrubbing blue marker off everything within his reach.