Sleepy babies' midnight stories

The sleeping programme is going really well. We put Izzie to bed earlier and she goes off to sleep then Bax, half an hour later, has a story down stairs then wails and whines a bit then off he trots to bed, sneaks in quietly not the wake Izzie and under the covers and straight to sleep. Just like that. But...

Last night when G took Bax up, Izzie was not asleep. She was standing in her cot looking at them. Bax got into bed and G left them to it.

Well we could hear some chatting and giggling for a while, but we were hungry, so we made a meal and ate it and didn't go up to check on the damage until about 10pm. We snuck into the room and this is what we saw.

No Bax. He must have got out of bed because the little light was on. But we couldn't see him at all. As we moved further into the room, we spotted him. He was fast asleep on the floor, curled up in a tight ball right next to Izzie's portacot, almost tucked under it, and she was lying in the same position inside the cot but squished up against the wall so she was as close to Bax as possible. I almost cried it was so lurv-ely.

And for weeks he has been asking me to read him the bicycle story and I haven't been able to find it, and there he was all curled up in a ball lying ontop of MulgaBill's Bicycle!