Last night, as my daughter made her way down to her room to ready for bed, she decided to slither... 

Every night it's something different.  We sometimes hop, or pretend we're a slinky.

As she slid along the living room carpet on her belly, I sat unchanged.  I didn't have high hopes for bedtime.  Ellen actually napped yesterday, so I knew going to bed would be a long time...  I sat in the recliner a little bit longer, trying to muster the energy to begin the bed time dance.

She stopped slithering, to sit up and looked at me with her story telling expression on her face, "Follow me mommy.  This is The path of sparkling rainbows!"


Well geeze, how could I not follow that??? 

[an hour and a half later she was finally asleep in her bed...at the end of the path of sparkling rainbows ]