I get nervous when it's too quiet

As some of you know, we've had the worst time getting Liam to sleep on his own. Those sleepless days were dark, I have to admit. Most of the issues have been resolved, but for the last year or so, one of us has had to stay with him until he fell asleep. Recently, he's been okay with us leaving him to play quietly in his bed by himself until he drifts off. This affords his parents some down-time before we ourselves collapse, so we're grateful.

However, it's a system that is not without its kinks. The other night while Todd was studying for a final and I was taking care of both kids solo, I got a little careless and inadvertently left Liam alone with pens. About an hour past his bedtime, he called me up to show me this:



The worst part was that he tried to hide the evidence by using soggy toilet paper to clean up the ink on his sheets. Still, what a cutie! Thea loved coloring on her hands and arms, too, when she was about that age.