The things Pete misses

As of today, Pete has now been out of town for 1/3 of the last month (yes, I'm calculating).  And the poor guy misses out on a lot of things when he's gone.  So I decided to make a...

 "Top 10 list of The Things He's Missed Just in the Last 3 Days"

10. Hearing the kids create a "zip line" in the living room -- and try it out repeatedly, always ending with a crash

9.  Finding that someone threaded a leather belt into the humidifier vent -- while it was on, somehow.


8. Getting to wake up several times a night with random children who are sleep-walking, crying from a bad dream, needing to go to the bathroom, cold, wanting to come in our bed, can't fall asleep, and/or are coughing.

7. Getting to have an hour-long argument beginning at 6:15 in the morning about whether or not the sun is actually up.

6. Trying to explain what imaginary numbers are in  math

5. Dealing with the fact that the neighbor kid punched our kid in the mouth, and now our kid is complaining that his molar keeps hurting him.

4. Getting to hear someone ask you questions like this all day long: "Which kind of little primate do you like better, Mom?  The ring-tailed lemur or tarshears (sp?) ?" or "How many kinds of falcons are there, Mom?"

3. Having conversations like this:

"Mom, do you know what the biggest snake in the world is?"
"No."
"It's the anaconda!  You know that.  It can be longer than my room!"
"Well, I hope we don't run into one of those."
"Yeah, but do you know what kind of snake you DO want to run into?  The zebra snake, because it's realllly pretty. It looks like a zebra!"
"Oh."

2. Or overhearing (even as I am typing this):

"Miles, what are you doing?  What are you cleaning?  What spilled??"
[Silence for way too long]
"Oh, he just got really dirty outside and so now he got the floor all dirty and he's trying to clean it up."
"Mo-om, this won't clean!"

1. Walking into a room and finding scenes like this a lot:

(Yes, those are legs sticking out on the right)


So, come on home, Pete!  This house definitely needs another person on staff.  I mean, your family misses you.