Beauty Sleep

Last night Carley decided beauty sleep was more important than dinner. I put her in her seat (because she was hanging on my legs) and finished getting dinner on the table. When I started calling everyone in to come eat I looked over at Carley and she had fallen asleep. My first mistake may have been allowing her to keep her blankie with her. The second was probably not realizing that the hanging on the legs was saying, "I'm tired" instead of "I'm hungry". --It got lost in translation.-- Maybe it was her way of trying to get out of eating my cooking. --Is it that bad?-- Well if it is, her ploy didn't work anyway. When everyone else was done eating I woke her up and fed her. Then it was bed time, but Carley (after her 20 min nap) was ready to play. She didn't end up falling asleep until about 9:30. A full hour and a half after bed time. Beauty sleep is over rated after all.

Creepy Crawlies

Yesterday we found the nastiest bug in my house. It was a 31/2 inch centipede. Riley found it hanging out where we keep the baby toys. I captured it in a Tupperware so the kids could get a good look and I could show people that we were not making up the creepiness. I looked it up and found out that it is venomous. To adults it is like a bee sting and not dangerous unless you are allergic. However for little kids it can be dangerous. That really freaked me out. At first Ryan wanted to keep it as a pet. Then he joined the "SAVE THE CENTIPEDE" campaign and lobbied to have it released. I was totally against it, I wanted it disposed of, but he won and released it back into the wild. It better not come into my house again. It will not be as lucky next time. Those pincher's on the end were about 1/2 inch long. OOH Gross!!