Ozzy Says

last night, ozzy woke up at his usual midnight timeslot looking for me, but instead of crying that his usual bad dream about a monster taking mommy away from him made him scared, he said he needed me to stay because he was "too little to sleep by myself."  you're not too little.  you're a big boy now.  i told him.  he shook his head and said, "but, i'm really not.  i really am too little."  dont you wanna be a big boy and do lots of things that big boys do?  "no.  i wanna stay little and i want you to stay with me."
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today at tae kwon do, ozzy earned a green stripe for listening, following directions, and improving his punch technique.  his teacher, Master E, tells the mommies watching to give ozzy a hand for his accomplishment so we clap and cheer.  then he asks ozzy if he'd like to say a speech.  ozzy nods.  so master E tells ozzy to turn around, face the mommies, and say his speech.  ozzy turns, looks over at us, deep breath in, and says as loud as he can:  "speech!" and then stands there looking pretty proud of himself.