Sometimes bedtime is the best time of the day. It’s all about laughing in the bathtub, playing peek-a-boo while putting on the jammies, and snuggling and reading books and singing songs before turning out the light.

Unfortunately, tonight was not one of those nights. Tonight Alex refused to get off the potty, refused to sit down in the tub, refused to brush his teeth, and then wanted to read Ice Age 2: The Meltdown YET AGAIN (a movie tie-in for a movie we’ve never seen, a hand-me-down from another family).

So I removed him forcibly from the potty, bathed him standing up, brushed his teeth in the tub, and let him take Ice Age 2 to bed with him to read by himself. He did settle down and read two or three other books with me, but I’ve had enough of “Meltdown” as he calls it. (Meltdown, ha ha.)

He said, “Daddy reads it.” And I told him, “Daddy’s a better man than I.”