My toddler sleeps in bed with us. Everyone gets more sleep this way.

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I'm just about to drift into sleep when I hear, "Mama! The bee!" I turn to my 2-year-old son, Kirby, in the bed next to me. He had been almost asleep, too. There is no bee. Days ago, he saw a bee in the pool, and he can't stop talking about it. My husband looks at me from the other side of the bed, and we both crack up.