Please remind me that this doesn't last forever

Perpetual Motion Boy's (formerly Lap Boy) list of favorites:

Pulling out all the books from the bookshelves and yanking at the pages before walking over them
Dumping all the kitchen cupboards for which there is no latch
Staying up until midnight
Not napping unless it's on mom's lap, and if so, only for 15 minutes
Pulling hair, preferably close to the scalp
Dumping clothing drawers
Dumping the laundry basket and sucking on smelly socks
Climbing onto mom's bed (he can't get off safely because he doesn't believe in gravity)
Sleeping ONLY in mom's bed, not his own
Waking up multiple times a night
Unplugging the phone
Unrolling the toilet paper

Luckily, he also

smiles
sings
dances
looks very cute in the brief moments he is asleep

I feel like it's taking years to clean my house--maybe because every time I put one thing away, twenty things are dumped out behind me? At least I have no stairs. (That was a big drawback to our vacation--I spent the whole time pulling him off of them.)

I would roll into a ball and rock back and forth, but I can hear the sound of things being dumped in the next room...

Perpetual Motion Boy...

...is asleep!! And it's only 10:15!!

Little Sweetie is asleep, too!!

Of course, they are still both in my room. But I can get up and move around and NO ONE IS SCREAMING! (Oh. Except for me and my all-caps. Sorry.)

It is too late to write anything or clean anything, but maybe I can sneak some sherbet and find a book to read. Or you know, actually have a conversation with my husband (who spent the day a) at work, b) shopping to replace the milk that someone put--unopened--in the recycling container overnight, and c) at scouts (he is cubmaster).

Sleep, kids, sleep!!!