Even Jesus needs to sleep Louis

A few weeks ago we put Louis to bed at his typical 8:00pm bedtime. Lately he has been turning his light on and playing for awhile, but b/t Brad and I, we usually catch it pretty early and he then goes to sleep without incident. However on this particular night, both Brad and I forgot to run upstairs to be sure the lights were off. Around 9:30pm, I decided to get ready for bed. As I got to the top of the stairs, I saw that Louis’ light was on. I couldn’t believe that he was still up! I was hoping that maybe he played for a little bit and had now fallen asleep with the light on.

I opened the door very quietly but quickly. There was Louis sitting at the foot of his bed reading a book. His eyes were super big – knowing he had been caught. In my not-so-happy voice, I asked him “Louis, what are you doing?”. He quickly lifted his book in the air and said, “Reading my Jesus book mommy”. He had been reading his children’s bible!

I then heard Brad come up the stairs and open the door further. He also asked Louis in his not-so-happy voice, “Dude, what are you doing”. Louis then proceeded to point to his two books he had been reading: his children’s bible and a book on the 50 greatest sports endings in history.

Brad and I were both speechless. What do you say to a 2 year old who is reading and on top of that, reading a bible and a sports book? How do you tell him that what he is doing is wrong? Well, after we got done smiling at our very sweet son and staring at each other with “now what?” eyes, we told Louis that it was very good that he was reading, but now it was late and he needed to go to sleep. He could read this bible and sports book a different day. He more than happily obliged by crawling under the covers and going to sleep. We turned off the lights and they stayed off until the next morning.