your children are not to be trusted

the boys went to bed around 7:30 or so, and max stopped complaining and passed out around 8, as is his custom. however, liam decided to fight the inevitable that is sleep, and he was still up and causing trouble past 9. but eventually things got quiet, and i went up to check on him around 9:45. he appeared to be fast asleep in his bed, and i thought all was well.

then around 10:45, max started whimpering in his sleep, so i went upstairs to investigate. oddly enough, in the middle of the upstairs hallway, there was a pile of wooden animals, trees, and other items from liam's brio train set (the table is in his room) that weren't there before (i.e. when i last checked on him, when he was "asleep"). i didn't think too much of it, as i might have just stepped over the toys before and didn't notice. i got to max, and he was having a dream or something, and a little back rubbing calmed him down.

so i went and picked up the train accessories and put them back on liam's train table, and i realized that there were no train cars or engines on the train table. i figured that liam had them in bed with him, but then i noticed that liam wasn't even in his bed.


then i heard a sniffle in max's room, and i turned to see liam sleeping in the day bed. which is in max's room, if you haven't figured that out yet.


so there are two possibilities. either liam was asleep when i checked on him the first time, then woke up, moved all the parts from his train set into the hallway, and then went to sleep in the day bed. OR, liam was faking sleep when he heard me coming up the last time, and after i left, he went and played in the hallway for half an hour (or more) before crashing in max's room. guess which possibility i'm betting on.

so where were the train cars? greta found them, lined up in along the base of the hallway railing in all their glory:






sneaky little monkey. "weaseling out of things is what sets us apart from the animals! except the weasel." -- homer simpson