i need a glass of water!!!

tonight we tried to watch a movie with sweet pea after dinner. our typical routine is dinner, bath, brush teeth, read a book, night-night. but tonight we decided to switch it up since it is friday. it didn't work. so half way through the movie i said "ok, let's go read some stories and go night-night." reluctantly she followed me upstairs. we didn't do a bath tonight because we did one last night. so i put her in jammies and laid down with her and read some shel silverstein. i warned her that i was going to read just one more but, of course, at the end she asked to "ree" one more. i said, "ok, but this really is the last one." after that one i stood up, kissed her on the forehead and she interupted with "teeth!" we had forgotten to brush her teeth and we're walking a tight-rope with her teeth. we're careful about sugars, we brush like banchies, and we're crossing everything hoping that she's got some adult teeth somewhere in that head of hers. so i said "ok-real fast we'll brush your teeth but then it's REALLY time for night-night." we brushed teeth and got back in bed. finally i was able to leave the room but pretty soon i heard her banging her sippy cup on the wooden bedrails much like a prisoner clangs their cup on the prison bars. it drives me crazy but i have to go up there and stop her because i don't want her to wake up peanut. ugh...she knows my buttons. so i go up and she's laying in bed holding the empty sippy up in the air. she kills me. i filled up the sippy, kissed her one more time and she finally fell asleep. what did i learn from this? i'd better just stick to the routine or be willing to be played like a fiddle.