I love how Sami goes to sleep when Sami wants to go to sleep. At about 10:50 we both got a bit frustrated trying to put him to sleep, and so spent half and hour driving around Takoma Park and Silver Spring trying to get him to sleep. I sat with him in the back seat of the car and he just sat there calmly and stared at me with those big eyes. Finally, the little eyelids got heavy and he was asleep. As soon as we got home and took him out of his carseat, he woke up screaming. As we predicted, he didn’t go to sleep until around midnight, just as he wanted.

“Ana ureed wa enta tureed, wa sami yaf’aal ma yureed” - Hani said, making fun of the Arabic expression, “I want, you want, and God does what He wants,” substituting Sami’s name for God’s.

OK, now it’s 2:30 AM and I am going to sleep!