Knee Mats

It was 4:15am. I thought I had heard something. My ears perked up and listened intently. Sure enough. I heard the, "Mom-A!" That means it's Nathan. I stagger into his room to find him still up in his loft bed. It's a good thing he's cute, because I was not thrilled at being awoken in the middle of the night, morning, whatever. Plus, I had been right in the middle of a dream, so the dream-hangover made the house seem somewhat creepy.
"Yes, Nathan?"
He looks over his railings, rests his chin, and looks down at me, so that all I can see is his slender little pink face in the moonlight.
"Um, Mommy? You know my knee mats are?"
"Your knee mats?"
"Yes, my knee mats."
"What are knee mats?"
"Um..." Something about strollers and owies on his knees and something about little balls.
I was beginning to think that maybe he had dreamt about this mysterious new invention and woke up thinking it was real. Thankfully I realized a minute or two later what he was talking about.
"Do you mean your knee pads?"
"Yes! You get dem, peeze?"
Nathan had been quite a boy yesterday crawling through bushes and flying out of strollers, so his knees and... well, just about every piece of him had some sort of scrape on it. I told him they were in the car, so we'd get them for him later.
At this point I still can't quite open my eyes up all the way due to sleepiness. I decided to seize the opportunity of him being awake.
"Why don't you go to the bathroom while you're awake?"
"Oh yes!" He crawls out of his bed, scampers out the door wearing only his little whitie tighties, when he turns around and pipes out that he's going to wash out his undies.
Sigh. Why does he need to wash out his undies? Why do I ask myself questions when I already know the answers? Sure enough, I ripped apart the sheet and mattress cover, put a dry boy back to bed, and I crawled into bed again. I was asleep about an hour later.
As morning dawns, and evening breaks. Sigh. Why does morning have to come so soon. And who bought those stupid knee mats for the boy in the first place? Oh, yeah, another question of which I already know the answer.