Blood-sucking Beavers

My children come up with the most astonishing array of bedtime excuses.  I try to take this as an indication of my success in fostering their creativity.  But, no one is fooled.  We all know it’s really an indication of my colossal failure in the bedtime obedience area.

A few nights ago, we put our children to bed, tucked them in, had a few bathroom visits, kindly left a light on for them, and sternly insisted that they go to bed NOW!  I doubt it was five minutes later that I heard panicked feet pounding on the wood floors toward the patio, where we were visiting with my parents.  Anya burst out the door yelling, “Mommy, mommy, mommy!”  We rolled our eyes and acknowledged her…barely.

“Mommy!  I hear a sound like this.”  She screwed up her face and made sound that was a cross between a sucking and a kissing noise.  “It’s a blood-sucking beaver, and it’s going to get me!” she bellowed.  I almost laughed…just a little snort escaped.  But, I manged to pull out my angry eyes and march her back to bed.

No, I have not the faintest idea where she heard about blood-sucking beavers.  Truth be told, it was my first encounter, too.

So what’s your kids’ best anti-bedtime excuse?

Tags: anya, bedtime, creativity