"Mommy, I want a chocolate chip pancake"

<- Exibit "A": Nathan's latest pre-school creation. It seems to be a kite with streamers and shapes glued on.  Nathan definitely held the glue in his hands for about 13 seconds while telling the teacher "I do it" before he gave up to run off and play with cars.  At which time the teacher had to figure out how to make it look like he actually helped by gluing on the shapes a bit crooked.  They like us to be impressed, but not too impressed, or we would think he didn't make it.  Sine the refrigerator is already full with Nathan creations, I thought a we could start decorating the bedrooms.  Anyway, back to exibit "A" later. 

Fast forward to 2:57am this morning.  I had been soundly sleeping for at least 15 minutes since the last time Josh's snoring woke me up and I had to elbow him in the ribs to wake him up so he would stop and I could fall asleep again.  When all of a sudden the noise of his pager vibrating on the wooden night stand and then ridiculous beeping make us both jump.  He knows one of his patients is due, but seems shocked anyway, maybe because it was only 3:00am.  Luckily, she is only 1 cm dilated, so I figure we have plenty of time to sleep before he has to go in.  Wrong....3:37am, the pager.....yes again.  This patient has gone from 1 cm to 5 cms in less than an hour!  Who does that??? This woman must be some super baby-spitting-out robot or something...or maybe she has just had 14 children already.  Non-the-less, Doctor Josh is on his way in. 

Now, you think this wouldn't affect me too much, except for the fact that the brilliant people who designed this house, put the two other bedrooms directly over the garage.  (I know we are brilliant to purchase said house)  At any rate, I know the sound of the garage door is going to wake up Nathan.  So as Josh opens the garage door I lay there as still as I can, because for some reason I think that If I'M quiet enough, the door won't wake up Nathan.

It's 4:00am and I think we're home free!  Nathan slept through the crazy pager, Josh tripping over the night stand and screaming some profanity as he bumped his knee, and the garage door. I also managed to keep the dog quiet though the whole thing.  A feat since when one of us leaves, he obviously doesn't realize that one of us just left, so he starts barking to welcome us home.  Nice!  I have 2 more hours of sleep!  Oh, and the heat is coming on, great, I'll be nice and cozy until Nathan comes in at 6:00am climbs into bed and kicks me in the head a few times until I get up to make him a chocolate chip pancake.

Uh oh, what's that noise??  Something tumbling around in Nathan's room.  It sounds kind of like paper dragging across the wall.  Wait, it is paper dragging across the wall!  It's exibit "A"!  Super smart Mommy hung the kite over the heat vent and the heat that just came on is making the kite dance, and loud enough that Nathan is sure to wake up.  CRAP!  He's up.  It's all over. Three kicks in the head and I hear "Mommy, I want a chocolate chip pancake".  It's only 4:15am.