Reading to Sleep...

This kid of mine! Almost 11pm and I hear him call out, "I want one more goodnight!" I go in to sternly tell him he needs to be SLEEPING. He gets teary. I hug him and tell him I'm sorry I made him sad. He says, through forced-back tears, "You didn't make me sad. If I could just read I'd be better..." I asked him to explain-- and he said, again trying to fight tears, "I want to read.... But dad said I had to stop at 9:firty." I remembered that Joe had implemented this rule recently to keep him from staying up like this... But it was clearly backfiring tonight. He was restless and wakeful and just wanted permission to read so he could get sleepy eventually. But he was obeying his daddy and not reading past 9:30. And was so sad about it. Breaks my heart. I told him he could go ahead and read tonight and he made me go ask Joe's permission first. So I did and he immediately grabbed Calvin &Hobbes and is happily reading. At 11pm. This kid of mine...... Crazy.