Our Fish Tale

Wednesday nights I am at class from 6:00 pm until around 11:00 pm so Derek gets the kids all to himself. I got home on Wednesday and found him watching TV trying to decompress which I can relate to so well. He told me the story of the night and I thought it was good enough to share. Derek had gone upstairs to give Ginger a bath since one of her favorite things is to roll in the dirt in the backyard. One of the kids came up and told him that Ava had gotten into the pepper and that it was all over the place. So he went and checked it out and sure enough she had dumped the entire container of pepper all over her, the floor, it was even on the couch. He went to take off her shirt not realizing it had one button in the back and so it got stuck on her head which made the pepper go in her eyes. Poor thing, she instantly started to scream. Derek then saw that it was time to go pick up Jerrod from scouts so he loaded up a screaming baby in the car and once he got to the church ran in and told Jerrod he had 10 seconds to get to the car. As soon as they got home, he rinsed Ava's eyes out and gave her a bath. She was fine. He then went to vacuum up all of the pepper off of the floor and looked over at our fish tank to see one fish floating at the top belly up and two at the very bottom looking very dead. Ava had fed them some of the pepper too. Knowing that the kids would be devastated to lose their precious fish he hurried and transferred them to fresh water and tried to flush the pepper out of their gills. Pretty soon, they came back to life!!!! He saved our fish! They are swimming around perfectly fine. Crazy!!!