Pretending snakes
This evening I was informed by Gleek and Patches that their security blankets are in fact snakes. They had each carefully rolled the blankets into tubes and had declared one end of the tube to be a head. Gleek’s snake was extra special because it had two heads on one end and a tail on the other. All during bedtime snack they regaled me with instructions about how to properly address these snakes. Apparently snakes require extra politeness. In fact, Gleek’s snake required me to learn a special gobbledy-gook language. At least the snakes made putting the kids to bed easy. I carefully picked up the snakes one at a time and announced it had fallen asleep. I then asked the owner of the snake to help me tuck the sleepy snake into bed. Once the snake was settle, the child needed to crawl in bed too so that the snake wouldn’t get scared. It worked. They went to sleep with no complaints at all.