Noah's Quote of the Day

As usual for most any night here at the Finkler house, bedtime is preceeded by reading time. And as usual again, that involves Mr. Noah Bean (yes we do actually call him THE BEAN most of the time!) trying to get back downstairs and out of reading time as he knows that what is coming next is BEDTIME.
So this evening he very politey tells me as he's walking out of his bedroom that he needs to go downstairs now and do something 'kinda special'. I just had to start laughing, there was no self-control to be found there in keeping the straight face and only pushes Noah further into this crazed talk of his! I contine to ask him then what this thing is that he must do downstairs that is 'kinda special' and well, that would be watching the Veggie Tales DVD called, "God Made You Special!". Repeatedly throughout the day the boys and I will remark to one another this phrase of 'You know, God made you special!'. I think it is very cute and have enjoyed them taking to it so well. BUT I never realized that Noah would use this as yet another bedtime excuse.
My parents watched the children for me this past Friday night as I was at a Mom's group meeting and of course both of the boys pulled out all the tricks in trying to stay up later. They are so clever and mischevious, I wonder where they get that from? As I was threatened so many times during my youth, I would get full circle what was coming to me from my mischevious days...(why do our parents say those things to us? and now that I'm a parent why do I dream of the day that I get to say those things to my kids?!)