Daily Lesson

Last night was a little different than any other night. Akoy woke up around 2:30 for more milk or juice. Usually its around 6, but for sake of him going back to sleep, I gave in. See, if he has a few ounces of milk in the middle of the night he will sleep until 8:30-10ish instead of waking up before 7. In my book, it's worth it to get up and refill his sippy cup. He is in a lot better of a mood if he gets at least 12 hours of sleep.

Last night as his milk was warming up {yes, I'm still nice like that} I realized we hadn't started the dishwasher, so I started it at 2:30 in the morning. That way, I would have in ready to unload in the morning. I went back to bed. 

Akoy woke up crying at 4 but I just let him go back to sleep. Bryson heard him crying again at 5 and woke me up. Immediately I smelt smoke. Something was on fire. I ran out to the kitchen/family room area and nothing but more smell. I held Akoy's doorknob and it wasn't hot. I ran and got my bathrobe to look in the hallway. nothing. Bryson looked outside, nothing. I looked in Akoy's room, nothing but then I was stuck getting him more juice so he would go back to sleep. It was worth it though, I had to make sure his room was safe. He's been sleeping with a humidifier at night for a cough. Luckily Akoy was so happy to get juice {instead of milk} he went back to sleep immediately. 

I was running out of options, we couldn't just go back to sleep, I smelt smoke. I didn't want to call the matenice guy so early with out knowing what was going on. Finally I decided to look in the dishwasher. That was the only thing that changed since the last time I was awake. 

Sure enough, we found the problem! When Akoy's sippy cups say, 'top rack only' it means it! 2 cups had been on the bottom rack and the water blew them off the pin and then they fell below. When it came time to heat dry the dishes, they melted. One was halfway gone and the other was melted onto the coil. Once I took it off, water shot out. Great! But at least we found it and could go back to sleep with out worrying. (except for the fact that I had an adrenaline run, trying to figure out if our house was burning down!) 

Funny thing is, Akoy turned the switch to air dry yesterday, and I almost just left it because we had the time to air dry it over night. Instead I just switched it to make sure. Should have, would have, could have! 

Note to self/daily lesson, listen to the label if they say 'top shelf only'!

The victims of today's lesson:

I tried to put it back on, like it was last night but it wouldn't snap back into place. 

Hey, this just might work for a good topic for my talk next week... Listening to labels/warnings. Everything happens for a reason ;) Or maybe just because we all have stupid moments. Either way, I am extremely glad nothing serious happen, and there really wasn't a fire. I can sacrifice two sippy cups any day, especially for the safety of my family!  :)