Gabe’s first lie?

So, as usual, I’m trying to put Gabe to bed and he doesn’t want to go down.   Usually this involves him crying and squirming, and me singing and reading, until he gives in.   But this time, something unusual happened.   All of a sudden he got quiet and cheerful and pointed to his diaper changing table.    He squeeked out his interrogative “mm?” sound, and pointed to his diaper.

“Well,” I thought, “he’s dirty and wants a diaper change before going to bed.   Good boy.”   So, I turned on the light and went to work.   But no such luck.   I popped him open and … totally clean.    He was lying!    In order to avoid going to bed, he totally tricked his old man into the one thing he knew would make me turn on the lights…

Oh my, this is the first of a long history of lies that Gabe is going to perpetrate over me.