a sweet Lola moment

Every once in  awhile after we put the kids to bed we'll hear Lola come out of her room and sit up at the top of the stairs. Usually we can walk her back in, sing her a song or say a little prayer with her and she is just fine. Well, last night , a few minutes after coming down from tucking them in I heard little Lola's footsteps above. I walked up the stairs and said,

 "Ok Lola, let's go get in bed. And we need to be very quiet because Dylan and Meghan are trying to sleep too."

Walking back in their room Lola says, "I want to sleep in your bed."

And I said, "Well, mommy and daddy need their bed to sleep in, and you have your big girl bed with your quilt and pillow and your Care Bear."

Getting in to her bed she simply says, "No."

"There we go sweetie, let's lay down now....What song do you want me to sing?"

Lola says, "No."

Now, from past experience I've learned that the longer I stay the worse it gets, so I kissed her and said good night and quietly walked out of the room and she was still sitting up in her bed. Over the next little bit I listened for her as I continued what I was doing and I didn't hear anything after awhile so I figured she had gone to sleep. Well, when Allen and I headed up to bed I noticed that the door to Lola and Dylan's room was open...? I mentioned this to Allen because it was dark in the hall and I didn't think it would be good if we stepped on her. But she wasn't in the hall, so Allen checked her bed and she wasn't there either, so I went to our room and noticed a dark shape laying on our bed in the darkness. As I walked to feel if it was her I just smiled and whispered to Allen that she was on our bed fast asleep. Sweet girl. She had snuck in to our room and climbed up on our bed to go to sleep. And she barely stirred as Allen picked her up and took her to her bed. Lola enjoys being two and sometimes a little too much, but there are times when she is just so cute.