Roller Skate Socks

The other night Mike and I chased, wrestled, scrubbed, wrestled some more, and eventually got the girls somewhat ready for bed. After bath time, Emmy always tells me I'm her "partner" and Mike snatches Brin up. We play them man-to-man at that point otherwise the bed time routine would go from 30 minutes to 60. We spend quite a bit of time negotiating with naked children about how quickly they need to get dressed and go to sleep.

Once Mike can catch Brin, and dress her, he takes her into the other room to cuddle on the couch for their normal routine. She takes down a bed time drink, and they watch Family Guy until the drink is gone. Emmy and I brush teeth and crawl into her big girl bed to read books. Once Brin hears it's book time, she comes sprinting in toddler style with her arms waving around and sippy cup hanging half out of her mouth. She climbs into Emmy's new princess bed and puts me in a headlock or pulls my ponytail while I'm trying to read. It's "loves, mama". 

When we're all done reading books, Mike takes Brin in for her turn brushing teeth. Emmy messes around in her room, stalling. I start cleaning up dinner. Brin comes running out, with Mike behind her. We exchange nom-noms, and Mike starts watching the end of Family Guy. I'm hollering for Emmy to come "give loves" and we hear her little feet pounding as she comes running from her room. 

I see her flash past in her hot pink princess pajamas as she's heading for Mike. Then THUD. She's down! Where did she go?! I see Mike looking down with a half amused, half concerned look on his face. "You OK?" he asks. I walk around to the other side of the island and Emmy is laying flat on her back. She was running so fast that once her feet left the carpet and hit the wood floors it was all over. 

She looks up at him, with a pained and surprised giggle, replies "I must've put on my roller skate socks!"