last night we put the kids to bed. after about 20 minutes of being in his bed, john comes running into our room with a lightening mcqueen pillow. “did you know that my pillow lights up?” daddy and i looked at each other. i am pretty sure that the pillow is just a pillow, but maybe it glows in the dark. we tell john to turn off the light in our room. then john hands daddy the pillow and says “you gotta squeeze it real hard.” daddy plays along and squeezes the pillow and nothing happens. so we send him to bed (he also turned our light back on and turned the fan on too).

about five minutes later, he comes running into our room again. this time h has his “johnny blanket” with him. “my blanket lights up too!” this time we didn’t even humor him, we just sent him back to bed. daddy turns to me and says “is he awake?” unfortunately john talks and sometimes walks in his sleep (gets that from me). nope, not this time. our little guy was wide awake.

daddy and i discussed the possibilities of what he was seeing. we only came up with a few: glare from the neighbor’s porch light, headlights or the hallway light. i went to check on the kids a few minutes later. i found john still awake. again he tried to tell me that the pillow lights up. as he was describing it, he sat up and there was a spark of static electricity. he said “see i told you it lights up!”