Kids are so smart

Last night I was babysitting Katie. I gave her a bath, fed her, brushed her hair, and wanted to get her to bed. We layed on the bed and read like 10 books. When I was on the last one, I said, "now, Katie, this is the last book we're going to read, and then we're gonna go to sleep, okay". She looked at me and I wasn't sure what she understood. We read The Very Busy Spider, and then, about 3 minutes later, as I turned to the last page, her eyes got wide and she shook her head and tried to run off. I was so surprised that she understood exactly what I had said. That made me laugh. I put her to bed anyway, and told her a somewhat thrown together story of Alice in Wonderland, as I remembered it. By the time Alice fell into the rabbit hole, she was sound asleep.