For Safe Keeping...

While I was making dinner last night, Pookie fell and hit his head pretty hard on a door frame.  He had a nice sized goose egg, but was otherwise fine.  Since it was a pretty hard hit and he's so very little still, I decided I should wake him up a time or two in the night, just to make sure he was okay. 

I tucked him into bed about 8:30 and when I was ready for bed at 11, I popped into his room to check on him.  The first thing I noticed was that even though it was chilly, he was laying on his back, spread eagle, completely uncovered.  He'd gone to bed in a shirt and unders, and his unders were a little...fuller...than they normally are. 

I woke him up and after determining that he knew his name and age, I asked him what was going on with his unders.  He said he didn't remember (as he was falling back asleep).  He rolled up onto his side and from the back of his unders I saw an ear.  Yup, a stuffed bunny ear. 

He had put Stuffy (a six inch tall, very floppy bunny), Stuffy's Uncle (a five inch tall stuffed bunny) and Stuffy's blanket (a knit dishcloth that he absconded with as soon as it was off my needles) into his underwear before falling asleep.

This morning I asked him if he remembered why he'd done it.  His response was, "I put them there to keep them safe.  I didn't want monsters or zombies to steal them while I was sleeping." 

I love four year old logic.