Car song

On the other night I hauled Tanay to his room during his bedtime. Often he knows that he is tired and he should sleep but denies it so his train of fun keeps chugging. He says he doesn't like nights and that he likes only daytime. That is because all the fun is soon about to get over. Don't we on a Sunday afternoon? We often say...oh the weekend is over though we have few hours left.
oh well! Now we all were very tired after the birthday party and treading the paved streets of sesame with few rides here and there. I presumed that Tanay would snooze soon and decided to skip the story reading and sing a lullaby. Its been long that he slept to a song! It used to be "Chanda Re", so I started humming it for him and he said: "No not that one-I want the car song" and started bobbing his head. He somehow prematurely discovered the songs of "Rock On" when swapping songs on the cd player in the car. Now when in car for comparatively longer runs, he asks us to put 'Rock On' in Mommy's car. Same story for MJ's thriller in Esh's Infiniti. He has joined the head nodding society too soon for his age. And in the bedtime those ridiculous nods for the 'car song' will sure not help him catch the Zs. Somehow I managed to read "Papa-Please Get The Moon For Me" and "Yertle the Turtle". Believe me, the turtle was making me fall asleep. Tanay's peepers went red but he would shut them off. He was in daze but not ready to sleep. He wanted me to read a third book. I figured the problem, turned off the bed side light.I repeated 10 times the last two lines from "Yertle the turtle" and held his hands tight under the covers. Esh and I both think holding his limbs gives him a kind of assurance, helps him feel safe to ease off into dreamland. And Finally he was asleep. Phew!