Like I said it happened just the other night. We were all at home alone and we had just got done with my bath and mommy told me that it was time to go to bed. Well I told her that I wasn’t tired and wanted to stay up with her and daddy. But mommy said that she and daddy were tired and wanted to go to bed, so she told me to march straight up to my room. I knew she meant business cause she called me a young lady. She only calls me a young lady when one of two things happen. One when I am really good and the other when I am really bad and headed for trouble. I knew I was headed for trouble not going to bed when she wants me to, so I went up to my room.
I laid there for a long time and still didn’t feel sleepy, but I knew mommy and daddy would come and check on me so I laid there really still like. Then I heard them come up the stairs, and sure enough they checked on me, but I had my eyes closed so they could see that I was asleep. But I wasn’t asleep, I was just pretending. I heard mommy tell daddy that she couldn’t believe that God had given her such a precious gift, when most of the time she wanted to strangle me. Then daddy said to her “don’t forget that I had something to do with it too.” What he meant by that I really don’t want to know. Then mommy told daddy “do you want to go practice for another one?” I don’t know what she meant by that one either, but if it means that I get a brother or a sister out of the deal, then I’m all for it. I didn’t hear anything after that cause they closed the door and went to their own room. I waited a little while to make sure mommy and daddy made it to their room, but I still wasn’t sleepy, so I crawled out of bed, and tiptoed over to their room to see if they were asleep. I don’t have permission to go into mommy and daddy’s room by myself, so I just stood there by the door listening. I didn’t hear them talking or anything like that, but what I did hear sounded like mommy and daddy were jumping up and down on their bed. I almost knocked on the door to see if I could jump on their bed too, but I had better things to do.
Awhile back I wasn’t feeling too well and got sick on my sheets, so Marie had to wash the sheets and change my bed. While she was doing that, daddy brought me down to the living room with him to drink some 7-up and to rest on the couch with him. Daddy helped me get better that night because mommy had to go to Atlanta for a writer’s convention. When I was down in the living room with daddy, we laid on the couch and daddy put a tape in the VCR and we watched a movie. Well he watched to movie, I fell back asleep. I thought that was pretty cool, so tonight I thought, I could watch a movie all by myself without having anybody help me. So the first thing I did was to pick out a movie that I wanted to watch. Then I went over to the TV and turned it on and made sure that the volume was turned down way low so mommy and daddy wouldn’t hear it and send me back off to bed. Then I turned the TV to channel 3 and then put the tape into the VCR, and it started right away.
It’s a really cool movie….Its called 101 Dalmatians. I’m watching it because mommy and daddy agreed to baby-sit for a baby Dalmatian named Spot. He belongs to our neighbors the Weatherton’s and they went on a vacation over the weekend and since Spot and 4th get along so well, mommy and daddy agreed to watch him. We keep him in his kennel in the kitchen, but I thought that he might like the movie too, so I drug his kennel into the living room with me. I hope 4th doesn’t get jealous, but he is probably up there jumping up and down on mommy and daddy’s bed too, so I’m not so worried. Like I said I was sitting there watching the movie and was really getting into it. But I kept thinking about those burglars Horace and Jasper and hoping that they wouldn’t come and get Spot, cause the Weatherton’s would not be happy if they came to get him and he wasn’t here. So I had to think of something to stop the burglars from coming to get Spot.
I thought long and hard on what to do to stop them, and then I remembered mommy saying that liquid soap was really slippery cause she had to clean some up one day while she made bubbles for me. So I went to the kitchen to the dishwashing soap from under the sink and poured some out at the bottom of the stairs right next to where I was laying down, cause I didn’t want them to get me either. I thought that if the burglars came in from the back way and saw the light on in the living room they might try to find him in the kitchen, so I poured more soap near the kitchen. Then I thought they just might try to come through the front door so I poured the rest of the soap near the front door. Feeling better that I had stopped the burglars from getting to Spot, I curled back under the covers and eventually fell asleep.
