Alex had an early morning today getting up at 7:30. He didn’t sleep that well through the night so that probably contributed to it. To compound the issue he decided that he really didn’t need a nap today so the usual hour and half in the afternoon that I use just to rejuvenate myself was lost. So when 5:00 o’clock rolled around this afternoon I was just beat. I was having one of those days when you feel you just can’t keep your eyes open for just one more second and at any moment your just going to fall asleep. So here I am on the verge of collapse and Alex is going strong.

I was laying on the floor trying to play cars with him but I’ll admit that I was pretty pathetic. He jumped on my back tried to get me to play horse but I just kept pleading.

[Dad] – “Please, just give me ten minutes, ten minutes to sleep.”

[Alex] – [making a clicking sound with his tongue] ” Lets go!”

[Dad] – “What do you think I am, your horse?”

[Alex] – “Yes. Let’s go”

[Dad] – “No, I can’t go on I’m too tired.”

Alex hoped off me at this point, walked over to the shelf to gets his maracas and then started shaking them in my face.

[Alex] [using a deep maracas voice] “The maracas say it’s time to wake up!”