POST by FRAN: Nasty Nights & Nits

Rene, Jonny & Beycker celebrate being Nit-free

There are nine rooms in our whole house, with eighteen people sleeping in seventeen beds, some rooms are shared and some have only one person in them. All eighteen of us have ONE thing in common and hats, hugs and hair all shared that ONE thing...

‘CHOMP, CHOMP, CHOMP’ I can imagine them in Yader’s jungle-like hair! CHOMPING their way through, down to his scalp and swinging as they scream “ahhaaaaaaaaaaa” like Jorge of the Jungle (parental note: can you see the Latino flavour making it's way?). I think you know what I’m talking about, little critters... NITS! I didn’t ask for them, I don’t need them, I don’t want them!

Raf giving the nits their marching orders

Nits are probably the most non-wanted insects in the world, they make your head itch and they lay eggs in your hair! We all want to get rid of them and we say, “why do nits even exist?” And if you were Eliazer you’d probably say “I DUNNO!” You have to try dodging them when they get too close, and when they hit your house you need to get out the weapons! Yes, it is time to extinguish the itchy, little bugs!

But it didn’t start like this, we had no idea... We were all...Normal... Without an infestation! Our days were normal days; school work, pick up kids, tricking class, etc... We walked around without any annoyance at all, no itching - well I wasn’t itching, but Rene was. So that’s where it started, with Rene.

Rene always wears a blue and white hat that everyone uses whenever they want and absolutely EVERYONE uses it! Bit by bit the itching passed on from person to person but it didn’t leave, it stayed - those nits just wanted to move in!

First Rene, then Eliazer, then Yader, then Beycker... until they got all the way to Rafi! EVERYONE in the house had them. What was once normal became ‘scratch, scratch, SCRACH!!!!’ and that SCHRATCHING came from everybody's heads.

Yader shows his enthusiasm at the death of all Capital Edge nits

Now catching them is very, very easy. But getting rid of them is like playing Green Sleeves for the very first time on a keyboard, you can try but you won't really succeed. Mum posted on her facebook wall “I need ten creative and successful ways to get rid on nits and PRONTO!”

People came up with a lot of funny things but Mum picked Olive Oil, Vaseline and Off-Insect Repellant. We all then had to cover our hair with a stylish, supermarket plastic bag. So on Tuesday afternoon she started... with me, then Lorenzy... Around 6:30 she finished with herself. She did fourteen out of the eighteen people that live in our house!

We had planned to go out but not with our heads covered in voluminous plastic and with oil running down our backs - we decided to pass. So Dad, Eliazer and Yader went out to the store and got some fizzy drinks and ice cream so we could had a little party at our house.

Fran making the most out of Nit-Night

The boys started a game that you had to walk around in circles on your hands and who ever went further won; Beycker won because all he does is walk on his hands.

We all stunk like tropical insect repellant and we had to sleep in the lovely plastic bag, and that evolved into the worst night sleep ever! All I could hear was a crackling noise in my ear! Eventually my eyes slid shut and I drifted off to sleep. The plague of nits slowly left our rather large family and soon we will be nit free!!!

The Nit-Busters