One of the reasons to look forward to bedtime

It's milk, but I'm prepping him to love coffee just the same.

I love the nighttime routine we have with Owen. It usually goes something like this:

• Tubby Time
• Short Playtime/Cleanup Party while "the brothers" get their tubby.
• Small cup of Cheerios (or other cereal) and Milk/Sesame Party
• "Brush Teef"
• Read 2 books/turn on sound machine/nightlight
• Prayers
• Hugs and kisses and I tuck Owen in with what ever animals he wants and we say goodnight.

Owen has been getting good at saying his prayers. He is very thankful for a lot of things, especially all of his stuffed animals. He now knows the whole prayer (which we have kind of made up on the go), even though we still have to say it together.

"Dear God, Thank you for my Mommy and my Daddy, my brothers: Parker and Jack, GaGa and Pops, Sissy, Uncle Lea, Doos, MawMaw and PawPaw, Aunt Kell, Nana, Baxter, Scooter/Skeeter, Mike the Tiger, Douglas, Edgar, Gorilla, all my elephants, all my family, all my friends, my health, my house, all my toys, all my books, and everything else. Amen."

It is one of the best parts of my day.