Saturday Morning

Well, we had an eventful morning. It began with Ian running at around 1:00am for the Relay for Life. He ran for an hour around a track and saw lots of people and youth from our church. He said it was a lot of fun. He didn't get home till 3:30 because he'd had to go buy water. We'd been out all day yesterday. So, I thought, I'll get up with our early risers and let him sleep in, right? WRONG! They did get up early (of course), and I changed Gabriel's diaper in the semi dawn light. I couldn't really see it, but I knew it was poo as soon as I opened it. I wiped him very well and noticed Nathaniel squatting and grunting. I laid Gabe's diaper aside and asked Nathaniel if he needed a diaper. At this point I saw little globs dropping from Nathaniel's back to the carpet. We rushed to the bathroom shutting Gabe up in the toy room on the way. I cleaned Nathaniel up as best as I could and left him to go clean the carpet. Ian was already awake and spraying the spots. So I hosed Nathaniel off and diapered him. While Ian was cleaning the spots, I picked up Gabriel's diaper that I had left on the ground. As soon as I had it in my hands, a scorpion crawled out of it! I screamed and dropped more poo on the carpet. Ian was about to scold me, and then he saw the scorpion. He made all the kids get off the carpet and sent me to check Gabriel's bottom. It was fine, but his diaper was already wet. We set out on a scorpion hunt and moved every couch away from the wall to vacuum. We found cows, hens, books, duplos, paper, doll toys, a wooden strawberry, and several pieces to Micaela's games. No scorpions. The mystery must continue.... where did it come from? We may never know.