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Two and Change and Humbling

Parents talk all the time about how different their kids are from each other.  After reading my gratitude post about Calvin peacefully going to bed and being independent, I thought it appropriate to describe tonight and the past few months.  Tonight, I was in bed working on my computer and Thomas is laying next to me and doing somersaults into me. I walk out and he's upset so John and I talk to him about trying to close his eyes to sleep. He agrees but then after a bit leaves the room. He comes back with a box of toys and starts playing with them. Then he leaves again noting that he pooped his diaper and had to go get Daddy. I wasn't going to argue with that logic. Then after a while he had not returned to bed, and I hear the tiny feet sound, then the sound of moving furniture, and the quiet that can only indicate mischief. I call out, Thomas what are you doing? There is a lightening of the steps that makes me panic. I call out to John to runs over as I run over to...