Mondegreen: the journey continues

I've written before about the mondegreens in our house, and Sweet Jane has just added a new one: teeveeallday.

Let me explain: For the past two weeks, Jane has decided that she wants to sleep only in our bed.

She doesn't usually decide this until somewhere around 11 o'clock at night, just as Vicki and I are ready for bed and deep enough into Samson's sleep that we're not inclined to teach her a lesson by letting her cry in her crib for fear of having two wide-awake and crying kids on our hands.

Clearly Jane is smarter than we are.

That said, having her with us means she no longer wakes up at 6 AM but rather stays asleep until well past 7 (which, for the uninformed, is "sleeping in" in any house with toddlers).

We don't watch a lot of television in our house. I mention this because Jane, after waking, almost immediately points to the remote and says "teeveeallday; teeveeallday."

Presumably she's heard us cutting Samson off after his half-hour of Noggin by saying "Samson: you're not going to watch TV all day." So it makes sense, if you think about it.

I'm thinking that rule might be amended today. Samson is home sick with an ear infection, and Vicki is now on day 4 at home with both kids and no chance of going outside because of four straight days of rain.

So go ahead, Jane. Ask and ye shall receive...