What started out as a fun sleepover with the twins and Rielee turned into a real nightmare. Harper woke us up at 1:30 crying, and when Papa went to get her he realized he was walking through water and that something was very wrong with the water heater. By the time he got the water shut off it was running out into the living room all the way to the wood stove. We have never been so happy to have been awakened by a light-sleeping, crying child, for if she had not heard the water running, we would have had a real disaster on our hands. As it was we had to rip out the playroom carpet and take up some of the laminate, but very little water had soaked through it so we were pretty lucky there.
Rielee really was an angel last night and helped entertain the twins as we moved furniture and cleaned up the water. They were afraid of the shop vac, so we put them in their highchairs right in front of the TV with Rielee sitting beside them, and as luck would have it, Elmo and Barney are on in the middle of the night! So with Rielee singing along to the songs, they were distracted and pretty happy. I finally called Charb to come and get them at 3:30 when we started pulling up the carpet since it was such a mess and by then they were wanting to run around and their little feet were getting wet, besides the fact that they were exhausted. Harper still had enough energy left to fight getting buckled into her carseat though! After they left, Rielee went back to bed and slept until 9, Charb said the twins did, too. So, after all that, we are very tired but so grateful that it wasn't worse, thanks to Harper!
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