4's a crowd

This morning in Amarillo, we woke up to a beautiful snow covered morning. Much to all our surprise!
I wish I had taken a pic to share with y'all, but it was a crazy morning, which leads me to today's post.

And to get to this morning, I must share with you last night.

As usual, Mitch and I put the kids in bed at 8 o'clock sharp, bad things, very bad things happen if we wait later, I won't go into details. For those of you not in Amarillo, last night was quite the thunderstorm, it was loud and it was bright with lightening.

Lightening + Thunder = no sleeping children

On 10 minute intervals we had tears and ups and downs out of bed by each child. They were scared, the thunder "won't let me sleep," and "the lightening's too bright..." And this is fine and dandy, but when it goes on for an hour, its a little ridiculous.

Two very tired and cranky parents finally went to bed and drifted off to sleep with no problems at all.

1 o'clock am we were woken up by one of THE loudest cracks of thunder I have ever heard, I laid in bed and counted to 5...that's when I knew and I heard,
"Mommy!"

Both kiddos were scampering down the hall, wanting to get in mommy and daddy's bed. I knew we bought that king size for a reason!
So they jumped in bed and made a mommy sandwich, which when you are 9 months preggo, that is NOT comfortable.

Once I heard all the soft sweet snoozes kids make when sleeping, I rolled out of bed to find more space in Kasey's bed. Only sleep was a distant memory at that point...

Up at five to check the clock, didn't want to over sleep, and then back to bed to try to rest for another hour...

AT 6:45 everyone was up and getting ready for the morning, only then did we open the blinds to realize we had been blanketed in snow. Dillon immediately reached for his snow boots and gloves complete with his jammies, he was going outside to play. Did I mention it felt like 21 degrees outside!
You can imagine his disappointment when I wouldn't let him out to play.

So I loaded up Kasey and went out to the car, tried to dust of 2 inches of snow, and broke the windshield wiper, all while Mitch was in the shower. Drama. But everything ended up great, and I was so thankful for my Tahoe with heated seats this morning.

But it lead me to think...we need a bigger bed!