My Busy Life

From the entry's title itself, you probably think I'd write about how mommy gives me my night time bath, read me stories and lull me to sleep. You're definitely mistaken because my bedtime routines, or rituals as I'd like to call them, are not that common. We start with me making mom drink her vitamins (yes, she shouldn't forget those). She opens the bottles then I put the pills in her mouth. Then, we proceed with my night time bath. Depending on my mood, I sometimes spill the whole tabo of water on my head or I go inside the pail and splash water around me. I also sometimes hold the faucet's tip and send water sprinkling all over the bathroom (which makes mom mad). Mommy then hands me my toothpasted toothbrush and I suck on it. I do sometimes get it right and brush my front teeth correctly. And during good nights, I indulge mom's request and let her brush my teeth (which is very seldom by the way). After the bath, I run butt-naked on our bedroom letting mom chase me to change me into my pyjamas. After this, I watch more TV and only decide to go to sleep when my favorite shows(Capt. Barbell and Majika) are over. I sometimes tell mommy about my day or ask her trivial questions ("Mommy, may airplane o. Takay ako dyan?") and repeat it a couple of times until I get an answer or nod from her. I go milk-snacking by then and hopefully drift off to sleep. If I hadn't afford to sleep after this, I grab mom's pillow, lie directly in front of the electric fan, tell her to switch it on ("Mommy, lectic fan!") and ask for my dantay ("Bigyan mo kong tanday!"). On bad nights though, I cry when mom attempts to bathe me and brush my teeth so she just splashes some water on my face, hands and feet and starts breastfeeding me while she changes me into my pjs. On the other hand, on better nights, I read bedtime stories and pray with her. I also tell her "Alabu!" a couple of times and cuddle with her before falling to sleep. So, what're your bedtime rituals?

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