~Day 2• 220: the humor in it all!

Last night was pretty comical. It wasn't at the time.... But looking back, you have to laugh. 

Here's what happened: 

7:30 pm- JJ goes to bed. The girls are still over, waiting for Nick to get back from golfing with Ashton.

9:15 pm- I go to bed.  (early, right?)

12:09 pm- JJ wakes up.  I let him cry for a bit, but he starts to get frantic, so I couldn't leave him.  He wasn't going to go back to sleep.  I change his diaper, try a drink of water, then a bottle. Nothing worked.  He just wanted to be held.  So we sat and rocked for awhile.

oh yeah- and I ran into a scorpion in the kitchen when I was making his bottle.  The thing died pretty quickly.  Just something else to make the night fabulous!

THEN as I was going back to bed, the little puppies I shared a room with decided to go for a midnight walk outside.  Out the doggy door they went.  The schnauzer, Joey, came back in, but the little Yorkie, Edward, didn't.  I gave him a few minutes and was about to leave him, then I started to worry.  Alissa had told us once about a huge owl she saw outside and that she worried about Edward being picked up... so I couldn't let him stay out there.  Outside I went in my skivvies and flip-flops to look for the dog.  I didn't want to be the one who had to tell Alissa and John that an owl ate their dog.  

I went outsde and called for Edward.  He didn't come.  So I kept searching.  The little stink was sitting over on the other side of the yard, basically rolled over so I could rub his tummy.  Oh no.  We didn't give his tummy a rub. 

3:30 am-ish- the smoke detector started beeping and JJ was awake for a little bit.  The ceilings in our houses are pretty high.  Luckily, the one beeping was in the hallway, which is lower to the ground for us vertically challenged people.  I found a stool, was lucky enough to reach the the dumb thing, and barely able to pull out the battery.  Then I rummaged through my sister-in-law's house for a battery (that felt weird) and I found one (sorry 'Sa!).  I proceeded to put the battery in backward because I was too short to see the direction on the detector, so the thing kept beeping.  I couldn't get the battery out so just I disconnected it, tried to get the battery out again, gave up and went to find the other one that started beeping.  This one was in the vaulted ceiling.  I was lucky that it beeped a couple of times, and quit. Back to bed I went.

6:00 am- the little Bug wakes up.  He sits with me for a long time!  I loved it!  Then he had breakfast, played on the floor, and ate my shoes.  Uncle Nick came over for awhile and made JJ's day.

We put JJ in his walker and he proceeded to run into everything, including my shins and toes.  He was having a great time!  We sure enjoyed having him this weekend!  and just because last night was a series of weird happenings, doesn't mean we don't want to have him again.  He is so fun!

And those things pictured in the bottom right picture was our illustrious dinner.  After the long night, and long church meetings, I really didn't feel like cooking.  So we got creative.  Hot dogs and mashed potatoes and salad.  The kids didn't go hungry and I survived a night with a baby--something I haven't done for years.  My 'baby' is 7.  We will 'borrow' JJ anytime!