Quote of the day "Aawwsome! I stayed up all night, right mom, right?" This by Elyse after waking up at 3:30 am, having had a bad dream.  She had something to say at least every 15 min. It was so bad that when she announced she was going down to sleep with her sister in the basement I said "good" and I could hear her downstairs calling her sisters name, as if she didn't know where she would be at 5:00 am.  

Caia must have kicked her out after the lights were turned on, and Elyse demanded to know the color of cucumbers, and if Caia had a pumpkin this year, because she came back to my bed to "chat" some more.

Then the sun started to peek out and the realization hit her, "I stayed up all night!!".  8:00 am "I've been up a long time!"  10:00 am " I've been up looong time right mom?"   12:30 pm  I ask "Are you ready for a nap?"   Elyse "like when I was 3?"  "Yes like when you were 3, you need to stay on your bed until the Velveteen Rabbit is over." "Oh that's a long time." she says.  She then proceeds to put her PJ's on, just like when she was 3, I'd already forgotten that she ALWAYS slept in her PJ's for nap time.  By the time I started the MP3...she was out.