I guess it would have been therapeutic and cathartic to have shared with people about the night that my father in law babysat for us and I was so shocked when I called home and he told me that the kids went right to bed and he hadn’t heard anymore out of them.<\/p>\n
When I got home I found that Riley hadn’t gone right to sleep but instead had rearranged her room.\u00a0 This was quite some feat for a 2 year old!\u00a0 But, the surprises did not stop there!!<\/p>\n
When I went in to check on Noah I found my bright eyed and bushy tailed kid in bed.\u00a0 With some dirt.\u00a0 A lot of dirt.\u00a0 He was crying because he didn’t want his truck to get run over.\u00a0 In the end I finally figured out that he had gone downstairs, out the front door, and across the street to play in the dirt.<\/p>\n
He had brought some back in the house and then gone out for more.\u00a0 He even got to see the red lights on cars that passed him.\u00a0 And he built this really cool volcano out of the mulch around the tree in the front yard too!\u00a0 But, I didn’t share that one.<\/p>\n
I just made a mental note to fire the babysitter.\u00a0 Although, I will tell you it is not very satisfying to mentally fire someone who works for free!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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