It all started Sunday night after the birthday party guests had left. Carson had the remote and was channel surfing. He hadn't been flipping through channels for long when he stumbled upon a show that caught his attention. His first exposure to this show was at Disney's Tower of Terror, but until he found it on Sunday, he hadn't really watched any episodes. That would not be the case after Sunday. He discovered that the sci-fi channel was running a Twilight Zone 24-hour marathon. He was fascinated by the show.
Carson continued to be sucked in to the Twilight Zone all day Monday. Every chance he had, he would turn the TV to the sci-fi channel and watch. But what his dad and I didn't realize was just how much Carson was taking in and internalizing. His mind was spinning and thinking. We should have paid more attention and realized how this child's mind works. If we had, we would have cut him off. It would have saved us from the rest of this story if we had.
As I said, all day Monday Carson was watching as much Twilight Zone as he could. I spent much of the day in a Benadryl-induced coma, so I was a little oblivious to his new obsession. Finally, at 10:30 last night, Dave told Carson enough and that he needed to go to bed. Reluctantly, Carson headed to bed, but not until he had made sure the rest of the episodes were set up to be DVR'd. Dave and I headed to be shortly thereafter--probably around 11 p.m. We checked on the kids as we always do and turned out the lights.
Around 11:30, 11:40, the phone rings. Dave jumps to answer it and no one is there. A little weird, but we think nothing of it. About 15 minutes later, the doorbell rings--twice. Again, Dave gets up. This time to see who is at the door. I stand at the top of the stairs and ask who is at the door. Dave says no one is there. Now, I'm starting to get a little annoyed because I really just want to go to sleep. Next thing, the phone rings again. Dave picks up the extension in the kitchen and I get the extension in the bedroom. We can hear something on the other end, but nothing definite. Dave decides to go check to make sure the basement is locked. I see him come back and grab a golf club.
There is some noise and confusion. A "You almost got hit with this," and a distinct chuckle. Up from the basement comes Carson followed by David.
Carson is grounded from watching any more episodes of Twilight Zone.
2 comments:
I see you had forgotten about the fake snake and the real ice cubes in bed - and he was only little then! It will come in handy later that Carson is an "annecdotal" child - I speak from experience.
oh I would have killed him!
Yes Thursday run sounds good! Here is the plan I was just texting Jess R about...we are meeting at mission and cv and running to barker and back...eight miles. On Saturday we are running the Liberty Lake Loop, so we have to do a long run on Thurs. If that doesn't work for you, I will be running four miles on Monday morning at 7:30 cv and mission.
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