The end of the innocence.

I get CJ up once a night to pee. I don't HAVE to do this, but I do it because his brain and bladder haven't quite figured it out yet. He'd just die if he knew I just said that. We make NO BIG DEAL about it at all around here, but he doesn't like people to know, and when he heard that his best friend still needs to be woken up at night, the relief washed over his face like you wouldn't believe.
Anyways, I said that so that you'll get why I was with him at 11:30at night.
He doesn't much like to get hugs or kisses from me anymore. He will snuggle up to me when we're watching Wheel of Fortune, and he loves for me to tickle his back, but other than that, no contact is just fine by him. I knew this time was coming. It's why I'm kissing Josh's face off now. I know the end is near.
Cept at night. When I wake him up and he's barely concious, he's very, very snuggley and cuddly and tells me how much he loves me and it's the best ever. I'll probably still be waking him up when he's 15 just to get that part of CJ again.
The other part of this is that CJ and Josh play like crazy at bedtime since they share a room. Josh HATES sleeping on the top bunk, and most of the time sleeps in the bottom bed, which is bigger, with CJ. When they are too rowdy I put Josh on the top and it works to get them to go to bed faster.
The other night they were up too late, and I had Josh go up there. He hates it, but I had warned him that if they were up past 8:30, that's what would happen. At 9:10pm, CJ came up, looking as cute as he can, to ask nicely if Josh can please sleep in his bed, as Josh hadn't stopped crying quietly yet and he'd like to go to sleep. So I let him.
When I went down later to get CJ up to pee, they were curled up into eachother in the cutest way. I teared up instantly because that too will stop soon enough. Soon they will be older and too cool and no matter how much they love eachother and how good of pals they are, they will not unintentionally, even, curl up facing eachother. It was adorable.
Time goes way too fast.