Scaredy Cats

Ok I totally blame myself.  Noah and Julian clearly inherited my fear of spiders.

I was sitting on the living room floor, sorting though seriously old files to organize the cabinet.  Spring Winter cleaning?  Since it's the weekend and the beginning of a holiday break I told the boys they could have a slumber party in Noah's room.  Of course they stay up much later than normal flipping though books, talking, playing, wrestling, asking for milk, getting up to use the bathroom or to tattle on each other for some ridiculous reason (Noah told me to move over!).  But then Julian comes out to tell me he saw a spider.  I was about to tell him to go back to bed before he gets in trouble when I thought to myself, hmmm...I would be pretty upset if I saw a spider in my room, asked for help but got in trouble instead.  Also, the last time he told me that he saw a spider in his room (he was kind of in a panic about it) he was serious - there was a big ol' spider making his merry way all over the walls in Julian's room.  So I got up to check it out.

At first I thought he was pulling my leg.  I didn't see a spider.  But then there it was...clear as day.  It was totally camouflaged on the wood headboard and directly above Julian's pillow.  Well you know me and spiders.  What did I do? Called in for reinforcements.  Leo came in to smoosh the spider, but as usual, missed.  He checked the tissue and I clearly saw it was EMPTY!  We both looked around the bed, down the side, under the pillows, shook the blanket, etc, etc.  Unfortunately the boys were watching this whole thing unfold.  We told them that daddy got the spider (he swears he "clipped" it so it would probably crawl under the bed and die soon always - yuck).  Julian was attempting to take over Noah's side of the bed and refused to cross the invisible half way line to his side where the spider was.  Noah was eyeing the bed suspiciously from a distance and never climbed back in.  I could see that my attempts to convince them all was fine and dandy were in vain.

Here is where they ended up.  Cramped together in Julian's toddler size bed.  But they were happy, felt safe and went to sleep within 10 minutes of laying down.

Also, if anyone still needs to get me a Christmas present I have a suggestion.  I think it's high time I got a back up for Leo my bug-killer .  Behold the Lentek BV01 Rechargeable Cordless Handheld Bug Vaccum in all it's spider sucking glory.