Crazy thing happened the other night...I don't even know where to begin the story but it started like that:

We recently have moved to a new house, a treehouse in fact, with a lot of open air screens connecting us even more with surrounding nature. You hear everything; the crickets, the frogs, the birds and most of all the howler monkeys. For the most part, we are used to the jungle sounds and are asleep by 6.30pm. 

It was the third night in the new house, Zosia woke up screaming like she was being bitten by a snake or another jungle creature. It was pitch black. Leo started screaming which woke me up and I panicked. I woke up Matt telling him a snake or something was attacking Zosia. In instinct seeing a little monkey "Leo" eating Zosia he let out his own terrifying  screams. Wailing his lungs out he desperately tried to separate the kids, thinking one of them is eating the other. All while the kids screamed and clung to each other.  I scream, we all scream, definitely not ice cream! We have never screamed like this before. No one wanted to waste time turning on the lights. We were living a jungle nightmare. We screamed like our children will die soon.

Finally I had the courage to turn on the lights. There was no snake. I saw no monkey. What I saw was too scared children hugging each other, afraid of their father to start ripping them apart again.

Zosia broke the silence first: "What happened?"

Seriously??? You tell us "What happened!" we reacted. 

We find out she had a bad dream about something crawling on her and woke up shrieking.

Jeez, no one could fall asleep after that. Our hearts were pounding. I might have had a mini heart attack along the way. We were loosing our children to a jungle monster for Christ Sake.

In the morning we had a good chuckle with the neighbors, who heard it all last night. They thought we were being robbed, later realized we probably just saw a big spider or fell down the hole in the floor, neither being true. 

This story still makes us laugh, maybe for the shear of craziness that happened or just the thought of Matt ripping the poor kids apart.