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The last weeks we’ve noticed, that Keagan’s getting more independent by the day. He wants to go to daycare all by himself and we had to negotiate for quite a while with him, so we were at least allowed to walk ahead and then help him cross the street and then let him walk the rest of the way all by him-self (while following him inconspicuously of course). We’re not allowed to help him dress anymore and even zippers and buttons, that used to be his worst enemies, he masters well. He pours the drinks at the dinner table etc.

But now I think he exaggerated a bit. One morning I told him that I’m just too tired to get up at dawn (how can one be so excited about dawn, it’s not even morning, just about 2 photons more than in the middle of the night, but I digress) and I asked him to go downstairs and play for half an hour on his own. I was fast asleep, when he came upstairs to tell me that two men had been waiting in front of the door, that they just wanted to fix something in the cellar, so he had unlocked the door and shown them the cellar. This woke me up with a start and I went downstairs in my pyjamas to check what these mysterious men were up to. There was no-one in the basement. So I asked Keagan if this was just a story or if there had been really men in the cellar. He couldn’t tell me, I was very close to going upstairs again and file the whole incident under overactive imagination, when it came to my mind to check in front of the door. And there for sure two handymen were waiting outside, not daring to enter the house but also not daring to ring the doorbell because Keagan had told them that I was asleep and not to be disturbed and when they had asked him if his Dad was in, he had answered to the negative, and truthfully told them that his Daddy was in the office. Of course they  didn’t know that it had been the grandfather, who had ordered them to come by in this ungodly hour, but had forgotten all about them. And since Keagan didn’t volunteer the information, Granddad could snore an extra 20 minutes while I didn’t feel tired at all anymore.