What happens when a toddler gives up napping...

[rivka]

Just minutes before this picture was taken, Michael observed, "She's looking awfully sleepy."

"Yeah," I said. "But we can't skip her bath tonight. She's filthy."

She was leaning back in her booster seat, sippy cup spout in her mouth. From time to time, she took a lazy little sip. Her eyes kept rolling up and then focusing again. Then she fell fast, fast asleep.

It was a precarious position, so I helped her lower herself to the table. I tried to imagine waking her up and making her take a bath. Michael and I looked at each other, and then shrugged. We unbuckled her from the chair, eased her out of her jeans, and slipped on a pair of pajama bottoms. She stirred briefly and went back to sleep. She slept as I carried her up two flights of stairs. I put her in the crib. "Mommy," she said once. Then nothing. It was 6:20pm.

And now, for something completely different: a little picture I like to call 'After the human sacrifice.'



Anyone feel like photoshopping a still-beating human heart into her hands?

Comments

[journeywoman.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHA!

[meglimir.livejournal.com]

#1 - awww!
#2 - LOL

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

Ohmigod :):):):):). I fell out of my chair!!

Anyone feel like photoshopping a still-beating human heart into her hands?

With this crowd, be careful what you ask for! ;-)

Somewhere in the boxes and boxes of photographs I have a set of photos of Danny, at about that age, fast asleep in a bowl of Spaghetti-Os (I know, they put an apostrophe between the O and the s, but I just can't bring myself to do it.) The last time we looked at them he was 12 or so, and made me promise *never* to show them to any of his girlfriends :).

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, that second one's going to be something for posterity.

(The first one is just darling.)

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

HiLArious. Oh, my god.

-J

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Oh that second photo!

(And people think _I'm_ weird for wanting a t-shirt that says "I left my heart in Tenochtitlan"!)

[minnaleigh.livejournal.com]

First picture- SO CUTE!

Second picture- will probably cause one of my 'Bad Seed' nightmares. Creepy, evil-looking child! *hides under bed*

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

We're lying here in bed together, giggling. :)

[kcobweb.livejournal.com]

I'm just amazed you got her upstairs and into bed without incident. Elena has only fallen asleep a few times in circumstances like that - but when she wakes up (on her way to bed, or whatever) she is an absolute terror and resists sleep all the more steadfastly.

[lerryn.livejournal.com]

On the second picture, the heart can probably be arranged. The beating part may be harder, but aladriana has some animation software that might do it.

[naomikritzer]

Picture #1: Awwwwwwwww, my parents have that same photo, only of my sister. I think they also have it of my brother. I was more the "I've gotten a second wind, and now I will NEVER SLEEP AGAIN!" type, even as a toddler.

Picture #2: OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG ROFL

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

"Anyone feel like photoshopping a still-beating human heart into her hands?"

It's the vaguely sinister tools in the background that makes the photo.

B

[saoba.livejournal.com]

Picture the first- "No nap! No nap!! No naaaaa- thud." A now college aged young person of my acquaintance once fell asleep while shrieking 'no nap' and running away from adults trying to corral him. Mid-step, mid-shriek, gone.

Picture the second- needs the photo-shop you requested and some scary freaky chanting for a sound track. Love the reed devil-eyes.

here you go!

[llnaughty.livejournal.com]

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

This is OT.

I am writing a thing on torture. I want to use the examples of how poorly people estimate risk,and I recall you did a post, but my google-fu has failed me.

Can you send me the link?

TK