One of "Life's Little Moments" AND A Memory I Just Remembered And Wanted To Document all in one!

This morning at about 1:30 AM, I woke up because I had to go potty. This is what I found:

Which got me to thinking:

You know, it's always been an adventure at night in this house! These boys are always sneaking around the house doin' stuff when they should be tucked all snug in their bed. And what do Robert and I know? We're sleeping!

We woke up to Isaiah freaking out one time because Brendan had thrown Isaiah's shoe down the heating ducting. Pulled the cover right off the floor of their bedroom and threw the shoe down it.

So, flash forward 15 minutes to Robert half awake in the freezing basement in his boxers and whichever pair of shoes was lucky enough to be closest at 3AM pulling apart ducting to find a stupid shoe! Isaiah HAD to have it back right then, or he had vowed to cry at the vent until morning!

Now flash forward 30 minutes of Robert NOT being able to find the shoe in the ducting! So I ask the babies, "You're sure the shoe went down the hole?" They both repeatedly assured me the shoe went down the hole. After about 15 minutes of me asking the same question over and over again, and them both whining and crying and pointing down the hole, I say, "It's down the hole Robert, keep looking," only to hear Brendan's excited little pick-me-to-be-your-favorite-Mom.-I-just-did-something-really-good voice behind me say, "Oh here it his! I-A-ah's who! Here it his Momma." Which, of course, can only mean one thing: The. Shoe. Isn't. Down. The. Dang. Hole.

Let's just say, my husband was less than excited. After all, he didn't have to get up in two hours to go to work or anything. Oh wait, yes he DID have to get up in two hours to go to work! That's right, now I remember!

And since we are on the subject, I also remember Robert came straight home from work that day and screwed four inch screws into the sub flooring on both sides of that heater vent! He was mumbling something under his breath. I don't remember exactly. Something like, "Let's see you get through that at 3 AM you li'l.. hmm..mmm." Oh yeah, and he had to duct tape the ducting back together too.

That, of course, fulfilled my life long dream of seeing someone actually use Duct Tape for what it is meant for. I have seen it used to do everything- including building a bomb by MacGuiver- so everything BUT putting ducting together. I thought it was kind of cool. What? It made Robert crack a smile.