This morning I woke up to the smoke alarm going off. I jumped out of bed and grabbed my glasses (of all things.) We rushed the children out the front door and to the mail boxes (our designated meeting spot.) Timothy said he thought the fire was in the oven. He left us outside and went back in to check on things. Sure enough there was a fire in the oven. Here's how we figure it happened.
Timothy and the children had been up for about an hour and were letting me sleep in because I wasn't feeling well. Timothy had made muffins for breakfast and got them into the oven. Then, he went to change Hyrum's diaper. While he was changing him Brigham must have grabbed a measuring cup and an empty box of pepto bismal and opened the oven and tossed them in. Then they caught on fire and set the smoke detector off. (We found white melted plastic and half a burned pepto box in the oven after it cooled down.) Brigham said he threw a measuring cup in there. He also said that he would never do that again. (I hope he keeps his word.)
Oh how we love these rascals! I think he felt it was due time for a family fire drill to make sure everyone knew what they were doing! Sounds like it worked.
ReplyDeleteOh, the joys of toddlers! This will be one of those stories that you tell Brigham's children someday. I'm glad you are all safe, and your "adventure" was quickly over. Your little ones are adorable.
ReplyDeleteHoly cow! What a crazy odd thing for him to do! I'm so glad you are safe and nobody was hurt. That glass incident was probably all the excitement you needed for a year. Crazy kids!
ReplyDeletewell, at least you had a fire plan. we don't.
ReplyDeleteBut, this has been happening to a lot of people I know. In fact just yesterday at play group the boys of the house put toys in the oven and then our host was making cupcakes and well - no more toys. and I read two blogs today with similar stories too. How odd. Sometimes I think kids plan it together.
Oh my, kiddos what can we do with them, what would we do without them. Your story did make me chuckle. : ( Sorry!!! I'm glad that everything was o.k. I'm sorry you didn't get to sleep in after all : (
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