what happens when joey puts the kids to bed

so tonight i asked joey to put the kids to bed.  and somehow, i am now alone and joey and my kids are sleeping in the loft in the shed!  not sure what happened there.  i was working on christmas cards and hear some talk of camping and next thing i know there is a fire in our back yard and the kids are running around in their pjs squealing and screaming how this is going to be the best camp out ever!   Luke wanted to run over and invite the neighbors to come and toast marshmallows.  He opened our door and said, "oh it's too dark.  i'm scared."  I said, "yeah you don't need to go." (i'm thinking it's late anyway and that seemed a little crazy) then he paused, closed his eyes and said with resolve "be brave. be brave. there is no such thing as monsters."  and took off out the door. :)  And they were still up so they joined us for a few minutes.

    

 Amanda said as she was leaving "thank you for having us"  and Luke not wanting them to leave yelled "we're still having you!" 

to bed in a shed

    

 

this would not be a good night for them to start sleepwalking

so today luke came home from preschool and sang me a song he had learned about christmas.  one that i've never heard before.  he sang it all day.  it was exciting to me to hear him sing something i didn't know.   it just makes him so his own little person.  it used to be that basically everything he knew was something joey or i taught him.  it's kinda fun.  

so here are a few videos from tonight:

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good night you crazy kids.  hope you get some sleep.