Kids, where are you sleeping?

The other night I got home from a meeting around 10:00. I came in the house to find Jay asleep in the family room watching TV, with his death grip on the remote. I have to note for this story we have been sleeping in the basement for a couple of days because of how warm it's been. Plus there has been a lot of tornado watches so we figured we'll be cooler in the basement and safer! So I stroll down the stairs to check on my sleeping kids... No kids in the guest room where their bed was set up.

So I hike up the stairs to their bedroom to tuck them into their own beds.... No kids.

I start turning on lights everywhere, checking under their bed (where I have found them before), I check in our bed-(where they turn up too many times) No Kids.

I check in the "comfy white chair" (which is where they to sneak to when they don't want to fall asleep in their beds)...No KIDS!

At this point my crazy mind starts thinking, while Jay's been sleeping someone came in our house and stole our kids!! I run around turning on and off lights in search of them. Seriously where could they be??

I go in the basement for one last look before I call the police about my stolen children and as I look all around the couch in the basement, I notice movement. The kids have set up a small fort, which I didn't think could fit two kids, but they had managed to not only set up the fort but set up their beds inside it too. There they were fast asleep.

The next morning I encourage them to make a bigger fort, because I had to do some moving around the night before so Janie's feet weren't in Aaron's face ALL night. I helped a little but the kids came up with some VERY creative things, like how to hang their flashlights, thanks to our oversized MIckey Mouse and Janie's tennis shoes.



After we "added on" to the first fort, much more roomie!



See how the shoe is tied to Mickey? The rest of the lace is in the tent with a flashlight tied to it, like a hanging light bulb, kids did it on their own!! Smarties!!