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The Same Thing Happens Every Night
Bill Cosby did a skit (which is great, you can find it on 'Bill Cosby, Himself', which also contains 'Chocolate Cake for Breakfast') called The Same Thing Happens Every Night.
Now permit me at this time to say that the man is a genius and should at least be given a minor sainthood. Because it's true. The Same Thing Happens Every Night.
We have The Screaming Tantrum trick.
We have the I'm Going To Get Out Of Bed Six Times And Come Out And Play And Hope No One Notices trick.
We have the I'm Going To Play In My Room Until Mom Or Dad Notice And Then Scamper Back To Bed Like Nothing's Happened trick. (Even though Mom and Dad are right there, so the likelihood of this is effectively nil, but we are not yet three, so ... yeah.)
We have the I'm Going To Sit Up And Play In My Bed And Think I'm Being Tricky Trick.
(We also have me nearly killing myself on the cat, whose contribution to this game is to lie directly in the hallway and/or the floor of the microkitchen. And of course this is the larger of the two cats, so it's more likely that I fall and kill myself on him. The cat has it in for me. I mean, I feed it, so I don't understand why it feels I need to die, but apparently I do.)
And then, eventually, we go to sleep.
Eventually.
Now permit me at this time to say that the man is a genius and should at least be given a minor sainthood. Because it's true. The Same Thing Happens Every Night.
We have The Screaming Tantrum trick.
We have the I'm Going To Get Out Of Bed Six Times And Come Out And Play And Hope No One Notices trick.
We have the I'm Going To Play In My Room Until Mom Or Dad Notice And Then Scamper Back To Bed Like Nothing's Happened trick. (Even though Mom and Dad are right there, so the likelihood of this is effectively nil, but we are not yet three, so ... yeah.)
We have the I'm Going To Sit Up And Play In My Bed And Think I'm Being Tricky Trick.
(We also have me nearly killing myself on the cat, whose contribution to this game is to lie directly in the hallway and/or the floor of the microkitchen. And of course this is the larger of the two cats, so it's more likely that I fall and kill myself on him. The cat has it in for me. I mean, I feed it, so I don't understand why it feels I need to die, but apparently I do.)
And then, eventually, we go to sleep.
Eventually.