Monday morning story

O.K., so here is how our Monday morning started in the Eighmey household this week...

Caroline woke me up at the crack of dawn. Actually, it was predawn! I woke Bryce up at about 7:15am to get ready for school. I had already set his school uniform, socks, undies, belt~ all on his bed, toothbrush was out and ready, etc... I took Caroline back downstairs so Bryce could get moving at his own pace (he is not a morning person for the first 5 minutes or so, so we usually steer clear). I was just sitting down on the couch to feed Miss Priss a bottle, when I heard a scream from upstairs followed by, 'Mom, come up here QUICK! Mom, hurry. You've got to come up here'. Sensing the panic in his voice I ran up the stairs with Caroline in tow. Here is the scene when I got into his room~ Bryce standing in ONLY his socks and his AQUATIC (yes, that's right, his aquatic) frog is in the corner of his room, just sitting there. I scan over to his tank and the lid is almost all the way on (we didn't know this thing could JUMP out of there so we left it about 1/2" open to put his food in). Jason was supposed to use his special drill bit to put holes in the lid before he left on his TDY but it didn't happen, we got busy. So, back to Monday morning. Bryce is standing there, in only socks so already I'm trying not to laugh because this scene is already way too crazy, and yelling at me in tears to pick up the frog and put it back in its tank. Well, that little slimy thing really creeps me out and unbeknown to Bryce, I'm actually kind of frightened of it. (Jason can attest to this... He's laughed as he's seen me struggle through cleaning its tank!) So, I'm yelling back at Bryce to just pick it up and pop it back in the tank. He's crying and saying he can't. Now Caroline is frightened by all the loud noise and is crying, too. Great! So, I grab Bryce's right arm and tell him he's just got to do it, because I for sure can't, I've got the baby (lucky I did have her because I truly don't think I could have touched that little guy!). He reluctantly lets me push his arm down by the frog who now is starting to jump away. Bryce finally gets a hold of it and puts it back into his tank. Holy smokes! What an ordeal for a Monday morning! Upon further looking at the frog, once he was safely back in his tank and swimming about, we could see he had a little red patch on his belly. Aw, I think the little guy got a carpet burn. Needless to say, I can't wait for Jason to get home from his TDY tonight so he can fix the lid!