Burgled by a bedroom bandit

Remember, for a moment, the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

Coles Notes Version: Little girl burglarizes a home in the forest, eats some porridge, breaks a chair, falls asleep in baby bear’s comfortable bed and jumps from a window when she is found out.

In retrospect, not much of a fairy tale, with not much of a point either.

But Goldilocks and the Three Bears came immediately to mind a few nights ago when Hot Wife and I ambled on up from the basement after some exercise and some crap television indulgence.

But first, some backstory.

The Daughter Formerly Known as The Latest Addition has had a tough week, spending three days at home with dad while her little body worked to fight the symptoms of a stubborn ear infection and possible pneumonia.

On this night, two days into The DFKATLA’s recuperation, we nestled our children in their respective beds as always we do, then disappeared to the basement to go about our business.

Two hours later, just as I flicked on the light switch in our room, I noticed in the corner of my eye a faint shade of pink where I knew there had been no pink two hours prior.

We had been burgled by a bedroom bandit.

It was The Daughter Formerly Known as The Latest Addition, sleeping peacefully in her little pink nightie, propped up on Hot Wife’s pillows, tucked in as if we had put her there in the first place.

This had never happened before; we love our kids to pieces but they know that ours is a bed that accommodates only mom and dad.

The DFKATLA didn’t flinch when the lights came on, nor with Hot Wife and I perched over her like a pair of burglarized bears in a crappy fairy tale.

That’s about as close to Goldilocks and the Three Bears that our story came.

Thankfully, we did not wake The DFKATLA, nor did we spook her into jumping from our second story bedroom window.

Instead, I scooped her up in my arms and carried her back to bed, where just as she hit the mattress she came to life again, just long enough to roll over and say 'thanks dad'.

Burglarized? Yes, we were.

She snuck into our bed, The Daughter Formerly Known as The Latest Addition did, and the moment we saw her there, peacefully nestled among our pillows and blankets, she stole our hearts and took our breath away.