Every night for the past three weeks, Annie has come out of her bedroom saying she’s thinking of monsters. We’ve done and said everything to get her back in bed. Tonight was the first night we agreed to lay down the law and not coddle her.

And when we did, she said, “I just want someone to hug me while I fall asleep.”

Insert me balling. So of course I did.

This is the moment I told her I’d lay down with her.

Ryan joked and said, “Annie you’re going to stay four forever, I don’t have time for this.”

It’s all so fleeting.