Practicing

The other night we left in the late afternoon to do a few errands with the kids. On the short 15 minute drive to the first stop, Lyman fell asleep. He woke up when we got him out of the car and stayed awake the rest of the evening. But we told him on the way home that maybe we should all (and by "all" we meant only the kids of course) go to bed early that night because "we" were all tired.

Lyman protested saying that he wasn't tired at all. But then I reminded him that he fell asleep in the car on the way to the first errand. He promptly said, "I wasn't sleeping, I was practicing sleeping so that I don't forget how to sleep." We both shot a look at each other in the front of the car with a chuckle under our breath. He is so clever but we are bigger - "we" went to bed early that night.