Conspiring against me

BOTH Grandmothers gave my children flashlights for Christmas.

Apparently, they want me to have conversations like this:

Boy 1: "Mom! I can't sleep because JJ keeps turning on his flashlight!"

Me: "JJ do I need to take the flashlight away?"

Boy 2: "No."

Me: "OK. Then you need to leave it off. If you turn it on again tonight I will put it away."

Boy 2: "But what if I really need it? Like I can turn it on if I have to go to the bathroom, right?"

Me: "Fine. You can turn it on if you really need to go to the bathroom."

Boy 2: "And when I need to make shadow puppets?"

Me: "No! No one needs to make shadow puppets! Leave the flashlight off and go to sleep."

Husband pointed out that I shouldn't have let them sleep with the flashlights in the first place. But he was out of town, and by that point I didn't care what they had with them as long as they were quiet and in bed.