Making Excuses

At night, even as you rub your eyes and yawn, you always insist that you are not tired. But the other morning when you decided you didn't want to get out of bed, you kept rubbing your eyes and saying: "Look mommy. See, I'm rubbing my eyes because I'm tired." When I started teasing you about your night-time eye-rubbing excuses as contrasted with your morning insistence that eye-rubbing showed you needed to go back to sleep, you totally got my sarcasm and giggled. The more I mocked, the more you rubbed your eyes and said: "What other excuses do I say?"