Gathering Peas.

(3 weeks left, agh!)

 Whilst telling the kids a goodnight story I get to the end where the character Shakira, a hardworking farm girl, enters a music competition where she wins singing/dancing to Waka waka, and the kids of course where dancing all around and happy. Well Leire decides to jump on top of Jon who is lying down. They are both little but it was clear Jon was hurting, a think it took his breath away for a moment. He cries. So after talking him through some slow and steady breaths I get the frozen peas to make him feel better. The kids see those peas often, it comforts them I guess. So for the next 15 or so minutes Jon lies there with the peas on his ribs and I sing nighttime songs like Raindrops on roses. Well at some point Jon rolls over to look or talk to Maia and I hear something that resembles the sounds of falling marbles. Or maybe falling peas. Yes, somehow the bag opened up and the peas fell onto Maia's bed and through the cracks on the wood floor. The light was off but I knew what happened. I tell everyone to freeze and I turn on the light and see a giant pile of small green peas next to Maia. The kids look at it and break into laughter. It was a fairly easy clean up but when I looked through the crack and saw a whole other pile on the ground. Great. So the kids insist on going under and getting them. It's a tight fit and I don't want anything to get moldy under there so at 1220am I let them cogerlos. I hear laughter, head bonking, I see random peas flying out from under, and then about every 4 minutes one of them comes out to give me a handful of peas. I am lying on the bed as both the children and I are laughing out loud. One of those my life is a sitcom moments again, it's been a while. So many minutes  later I am on my hands and knees talking through things with the kids and trying to convince them that putting frozen peas in the pants was a bad idea, and then I hear the parents come in. They look at me strange and look even stranger when they come in and see 3 empty beds and hear muffled uncontrollable laughter. They get a kick out of the situation. Eventually all the peas (so far as I know) are out and the kids are finally in bed. It made me laugh a lot. I like these funny moments with the kids.