I'm exhausted today.

Let me tell you why.  :)  Yesterday, while Shirley was eating her breakfast, the carbon monoxide detector, which is located directly above her bowls, started chirping to tell us the battery needed to be changed.  It freaked her out!  She literally dropped the food out of her mouth and ran.  Gavin was on our bed watching a little TV while I watched the Today Show and he yelled for me to let me know she had jumped up on the bed.  She was curled up right next to him, shaking.  Of course - we don't have a 9V battery for me to change it.  So, I put her in the backyard and got ready to head to the store to get new batteries.  Well, I couldn't get the dog to come back in the house.  I lured her in with a treat (which was MUCH harder than it usually is and she immediately ran to Gavin's bedroom and jumped on his bed.  I can't believe she can even get up on that bed!  So, I called Leslie (thank goodness for neighbors!) and borrowed a battery just so it wouldn't beep while I went to Target.  The dog literally went right back outside as soon as we got home and didn't come in until Jarrod finished mowing the lawn at like 6:45 that night.  Even then, she went straight into Gavin's room, and even slept in there.  She was traumatized from the chirping yesterday!  


So, fast forward to about 3:15am.  We're awoken by the sound of the carbon monoxide detector going off.  Not the chirping.  The actual alarm sounding.  Jarrod went straight for the detector and I ran into Gavin's room to see if he was ok.  I walked in to find him looking around, and he asked me, "What is that on my bed???"  Shirley panicked and jumped up on his bed!  He put his pillow over his head, trying to block out the alarm.  Jarrod called the fire department, and I wrapped a blanket around Gavin and we sat on the porch until they arrived.  He thought it was pretty neat to see the stars out.  They came and no carbon monoxide was detected.  The determined out detector was malfunctioning and we needed a new one.  So, finally around 4am, I was able to get Gavin back in his bed and we all went back to sleep for a couple hours before morning.


I wish I could have taken a nap when Gavin did today, but I have so much to do still before the consignment sale.  I'm consigning a lot of Gavin's clothes to make room (and money!) for Baby Sister's clothes and the drop-off is Friday.  I'm almost there....