Waking Sleeping Beauty

We've been teaching our 16 month old daughter, Molly, how to close her eyes when she prays. It's pretty cute. She'll close them for about 2 seconds, and then peek open one eye, just to make sure everyone still has their eyes closed...

These days its SO hard to try get a kiss out of her. I think, she thinks that it's a game... So we say, "Molly, go give mama (or daddy) a kiss" and she runs the other way grunting, "he he he".


So to get around this cute little problem we pretend to be sleeping (like sleeping beauty). We lye there with our eyes closed, "asleep", and Molly has to wake us up with a kiss. It's a cute game we play and is quite fulfilling as a parent.

We were in Church the other day, and we both had our eyes closed when all of the sudden out of no where, Molly lays one on me. It was the biggest, slobbery-est, juiciest kiss ever, right in the middle of Church. So I whisper in her ear, "Molly we are praying now, remember how to pray, close your eyes like daddy".

I closed my eyes again, and a couple seconds later, another juicy slobbery kiss... I said, "Thanks Molly, that was nice. Now lets pray." I kept my eyes open from that point on and that was the end of that game.

After Church, when I washed all the slobber off my face, I said, "OK Molly, give daddy a kiss". And she ran the other way... grunting, "he he he". I guess I'll settle for waking sleeping beauty.