Smile in Your Sleep

The other night, Bee started coming down with a little bit of a cold. When Mr. Bee and I checked on her in her room, she was just the most pitiful little thing, whimpering and half-awake.

We knew immediately that she would need to sleep in our bed with us.

And by “immediately” I mean that I had to plead with Mr. Bee that our poor iddy biddy widdle bebe needed our help and she had to sleep in our bed with us.

Reluctantly (because he’s way smarter than I am), Mr. Bee conceded the argument and our bed.

As always, it started off innocently enough…

We laid Bee down in between us in our king-sized bed and told her to rest her eyes and go to sleep.

Then the fun began.

She started off snuggled up to me, but quickly realized that Dad was too far away and scooted her little body across the bed to snuggle up with him.

And then back to me.

And then back to him.

And then back to me again.

There were feet in my back, my stomach, my face, my head…

There were arms in my hair, smacking my face, stuck under my neck…

But somewhere in that mess of toddler sleep-seizures, she began to fall hopelessly in love with me. She would hold my face and give me kisses upon kisses and whisper to me, “Mommy! I love you!!”. Then she’d bury her head next to mine until she decided to start the kiss-love-snuggle cycle all over again.

Eventually, when we realized that she wasn’t ever going to go sleep with us to play with, Mr. Bee had to bring her back to her room, where she promptly passed out.

I’m still making up from the sleep we all lost that night and I might still have bruises from the feet and fists in my ribs, but, man…I loved every single minute of it.

Song title: Smile in Your Sleep by Silverstein