A few notes before I tell this story:
1. There's potty humor. I don't usually share those stories, but this one is too good.
2. Maddie has been fully potty trained for awhile now. We still put her in Pull-ups at night, but she's been fully dry every morning for weeks. Preston and I were even discussing maybe discontinuing with them.
3. Maddie has been in this new mode of popping out of bed to pee and also just to because "I can't sleep." She wants songs, etc.
4. Maddie has a habit of burying the lede. Example: A few weeks ago she popped out of bed to say "Mommy, I have to pee-pee. And Sam threw up."
So tonight, this happened.
Maddie: Mommy! Mommy! Mommy! (five more times or so ...)
Me: Yes, Maddie?
Maddie: I can't sleep.
Me: Okay. What do you need?
Maddie: The baby song. And my dreams.
Me: Okay, one baby song and then we'll talk about your dreams for a few minutes.
Maddie: And then I'll go to sleep!
Me: Right. {Sings the baby song.}
Maddie: And scratch my back.
Me: {scratching back} Okay, now what do you want to dream about tonight.
Maddie: Kids I don't know. First girls, then boys. {This is a new thing -- she wants me to list names of girls and boys she doesn't know so she can dream about them.}
Me: Okay. {List girl names.} Now boys.
Maddie: No, two more girls.
Me: {Two more girl names, then boy names.} Okay, good night.
Maddie: Three more boy names.
Me: No Maddie, go to sleep.
Maddie: Okay. Oh, Mommy?
Me: Yes, Maddie?
Maddie: I have poop in my Pull-up.
{And scene.}