Bed Time Story

Daddy! There’s a monster under my bed!!

Well I should have expected it. For Christmas I had given her the book that I am now asked to read each night.
It had three stories in it, “There is a Monster in the Attic”, “There is a Nightmare in my Closet”, and
“There is an Alligator under my Bed”.

So I got up and went to her room and was prepared to calm her, but as she looked shyly up to me she giggled, she could not keep that smile form her lips as she repeated Daddy, there IS a monster under my bed. Will you get it out, please?

Ok, as I got on my hands and knees, in the light of the Dora night light I ran my arm and hand under her infant’s bed, what’s this? A bone chilling cold, small but unexpected, I grasp it and pulled it out.

She could no longer control her giggling, my three year old got me with her first joke, in my hand was a can of Monster’s Mean Bean, energy drink.