"Bear Stays Up"

This is the book that the kids chose for Jason to read for a bedtime story last night.  In this story, the bear's friends try to keep him up in anticipation of Christmas, determined to not let him miss out by sleeping.  But because it's winter, bears tend to like to sleep.  This is also the case for a Daddy that stayed up late and then woke up early and had his first day back at work.  By 7:30pm he was pretty much toast, but being a loving daddy, he cuddled up with the kids to read the book.  I think he realized how tired he was when the words he was reading no longer came out as words, but rather mumbling.  The kids looked at me puzzled at what he was saying and I laughed and commented that Daddy bear was the one falling asleep, and not the bear in the book and that we'd have to try to keep him awake so he could finish the book.  Needless to say, he was laughing so much after we caught him that he had no trouble staying up to finish it.