Monkey Business

The girls spent the night and sleeping arrangements became a lot like that brain teaser where you have to get a wolf and a goat and a cabbage across the river, but you can only take one at a time. If you leave the wolf with the goat, it will eat the goat. If you leave the goat with the cabbage, it will eat the cabbage. So how do you get them all across the river on this wolf, goat, cabbage journey that you're on?

That was exactly like bedtime. This was my brain teaser tonight.
You have a set of bunk beds, three cousins and a stuffed monkey, no more than two kids (and one monkey) can sleep in each bed.
Elyse will only sleep with her monkey and Faith.
Faith would like to sleep alone, but will sleep with Elyse.
Annaliese wants to sleep with Elyse's Monkey and Faith.

It was a little nutty. Tears over the monkey. LOT'S of tears over Elyse's Monkey. But I had to tell Annaliese, that everybody knows that a smart monkey doesn't monkey with another monkey's monkey. So she gave it back, climbed out of bed, opened a toy box and low and behold pulled out her own monkey. So young and learning valuable life lessons.

(By the way Elyse was REALLY impressed with how well Annaliese could read. She could hear her from the top bunk.)