Deep Thoughts Bedtime

Aaron and I were watching some post-kids'-bedtime TV when Sebastian walked into the living room.  We knew he wasn't asleep for the previous half hour and he does this quite often, so no surprises there.  Mostly, he comes out after Audrey has given up on throwing toys at him.  She can fall asleep mid-throw.  I've seen it happen.


Sometimes he's bored, sometimes he's scared, sometimes he's reminding us that GASP! "We forgot to go to Chuck E Cheese's!"  Each time, his earnestness is half-heartedly entertained and he is swiftly escorted back to his sleeping quarters where he strategizes with his stuffed dragon for the next attempt, which is rebuffed.

Tonight, he took more of a Jack Handy/Sid the Science Kid approach.  He came out with both hands outstretched as if asking the universe a question, walking swiftly in a circle around the living room: 

"Mom! Dad! When can it be daytime and night time at the SAME TIME?"

Then he leaned his little hip against the doorway with eyes bulging from their sockets, taking in the room after dropping this amazingly deep insight.  For he knew he had done it.  This was going to be different.  

No half-hearted entertaining, no rebuffing, no escort, just two parents with identically furrowed brows and eyes darting back and forth.  Whaaaa...?

We did collect ourselves enough to ask.  Sebastian told us that it was light outside his window and dark in the back yard and insisted that, since it was daytime from his window, it couldn't be bedtime for him.  Good point, we'll have the streetlamp's lightbulb removed in the morning after we escort you back to your bed right now. 

Good NIGHT.

(PS, I really hope this becomes a thing so I can create a good compilation of Deep Thoughts to Distract Your Parents from Bedtime)