What happens in the dark

I am most certainly going to get killed for this post in about 10 years. Eyes will roll. Words like "C'mon, Mom, really!" will roll out of the mouth. But....Bill and I had such a belly laugh over this one tonight that I'll take the consequences later in order to preserve the memory.

Camille has this oooh-too-cute pair of button down sage green, brown, and cream flowered pajamas that she likes to wear to bed. Tonight, I had a conference call and Bill tucked her in. When I came out in the living room, I could hear her carousing in the dark of her bedroom, so very obviously not at all close to the bliss of silent sleep. Bill reported that she wanted me to go in and say goodnight after my call was over. Off I went.

When I opened the door and the light shined in, I could see her laying in bed with a ten-mile-wide smile spread across her face. "Mom, did I take my jammie top off?"

Yep, sure did. No clothes on from the waist up. We redressed, said our goodnights, and retucked.

Thirty minutes later, Bill and I could still hear the rumpus coming from behind closed doors. Bill headed off to investigate and in a few short seconds, I heard his laughter emerge, "We better go show your mommy this." Out he comes, carrying Camille, completely stark naked. No jammie top. No jammie bottoms. No panties. Ultra-commando. Buff to the bones....and smiling and laughing from ear to ear. She couldn't have been prouder. When he had opened the door, she was just sprawled out in bed, covers nowhere to be found, basking in the breeze.

Guess all of the practice with dressing and undressing independently as of late has paid off--sort of.

Obviously a Kodak moment was not in order and posting it to the blog would have crossed the line, but the thing that made it so funny was just how plain cute her caboose is and how completely thrilled she was to be showing it off. No matter how many cookies this girl ingests, no matter how many Reese's peanut butter cups go down the hatch, this girl still has a 5" span from hip to hip and the boniest, tiniest little bum you ever did see.

Having said that, let's just hope this is a phase.