Random conversations

My evening yesterday consisted of many bazaar conversations with the little ones..

B-man came to me and said "Hey mom, just so you know, if you ever see a hippo and think its bleeding, its probably just hot"

Me-with baffled look on my face- "why is that?"

B-man- "hippos sweat red, so sometimes people think they are bleeding"

Me- "ok buddy, thanks. If I see a hippo anytime soon I will be sure to not get concerned"

B-man- "your welcome, I just didnt want you to be worried"

Me- "to be honest, if I ever saw a hippo, I would probably be running away, I wouldnt be so concerned as to whether they were bleeding or not"

B-man- "you shouldnt run, it will chase you"

this carried on with scenarios on how I should react to a "bleeding hippo"....

AJ spent the day counting how many times he ate with a tooth missing.. then from about 4:00 pm on, started with the what ifs...

what if the tooth fairy has a tiny fairy body and a big scary face?
what if I wake up when she comes to take my tooth?
what if my light in the night lights up and scares her away?
what if my brother is up and she doesnt come?
what if I wake up and she is just looking at me?

then we went into...
are fairies real?
what does the tooth fairy do if nobody lost a tooth?
what does her house look like?
does the tooth fairy ever sleep since she is going to hong kong china when we are awake and then has to come to us when we sleep?
why does the tooth fairy like teeth?
what does the tooth fairy look like?
doesnt the tooth fairy want another job?
do people hire fairies?
are there other faires that arent tooth fairies?

By 8:00 I needed ear plugs.

Both kids went to sleep great, we did have to put the tooth in a ziploc bag and rest it on the ladder of the bunk beds so that the tooth fairy wouldnt come near AJs pillow, or him for that matter.

AJ woke up at 9:30, and then again at 10:15 and said he was done sleeping and the tooth fairy still hadnt come yet. Once he was asleep the tooth fairy come to visit and both mom and dad went to bed.

We were woken up at 2:20 to B-man, just coming to tell us the tooth fairy came.. soon followed by AJ whom he had to wake up to share the good news. Both kids were in our room talking about the dollar bill ($5) that the tooth fairy brought and I sent them back to bed.

They both woke up again at 5:15 only to replay the last part because they were both still half asleep, so seeing that the tooth fairy had actually came was a surprise to them again.... OYE!!

Have I mentioned that they are on summer vacation and have been up before 6:00am all week!?!?!?

How does one teach a child to sleep in???