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Monday, January 19, 2004 Tidbits on the Kidbits

Look at the post footer, just down there…it’s the middle of the night, and I am sitting here fixing my css. Just a small thing, but one that has been bothering me, and it’s quiet and I can’t sleep anyway.

A little while ago, my 3-year-old son started crying on and off—you know, the cry accompanied by the flopping thing: cry, flop, silence, cry, flop, silence. I went in and pulled up his covers, kissed his head, and tiptoed out again. Ten minutes later, it started again. I went back in and saw that he’d kicked the covers off.  I gently pulled his sheet back up, and then the duvet, and then his quilt, tucking it around his little body and up to his neck. I laid my head down on his pillow and whispered to him.

He turned over and curled up, and I spooned around him and snuggled down into his neck. Moments later, he was breathing quietly, sleeping peacefully.

[sound of heart creaking]

And of course, [sound of wooden toy being kicked across room on exit]