When we brought our second daughter home from the hospital, her four older brothers were showing her as much love and attention as you might expect.  Meanwhile my first daughter, then 2 years old, softly declared “I’m here” from behind everyone.  I looked over toward her to see her sitting alone clearly disappointed in the lack of attention.  Whenever I think about that I end up laughing.

Submitted by: Ellen

When my son Chad was about 4 years old he would sleep-walk every now and then.  One night my husband and I awoke to him screaming and crying his heart out.  Turns out he had walked down the hallway in the pitch-black and ran his head into the stone wall.  So the lights came on, we spent about 10 minutes calming him down, making sure he didn’t have a concussion or anything, and eventually got him back in bed and asleep.

The next morning, while everyone ate breakfast, Chad said “I don’t know what I did, but my head sure hurts.”  Turns out he was asleep the whole time.

Submitted by: Esther