Ratatouille

Ratatouille is a great movie that we have recently been watching. What a weird coincidence this is. The other morning I was in the bedroom when I heard Jackson say "What in the world was that?" I hollered through the wall asking what he was talking about when Coach hollered back at me "It was a huge rat!" I thought to myself yeah right but  kept hearing the boys in the living room talking about it. So I poked my head around the wall and said, "No really, what was it?" The boys excitedly said "Momma we saw a rat!" Not good. (Insert big frowny face here.)

I would like to interrupt this story to explain that yes, since we moved into a new house we should not have any rats, mice or critters but as it was so bluntly pointed out to me when we started building this house by my straight to the point husband, "it's not if the critters come, but when they come." You see we live in a big ol open hay field that apparently all the critters thought we built the new house for them not us. I digress.

Well after the rat sighting the boys wanted to know what his name was. The first thing I thought of was Ratatouille, well because we just watched the movie the night before. They thought it was cool so that's what we named the rat. Jackson wanted to know why he had come to our house and of course because he was Ratatouille I told him he had come over to cook us supper. (I'm soo bad I know) Well that satisfied him and me both and we went on about our day.

I did go to the store and buy some sticky traps. Please don't judge us because we had a rat in our house or because I bought sticky traps to catch the rat. Please remember I am technically a city girl so all of these country critters are new to me and I debated on what the proper way to catch /dispose of the animal was and at the time of purchase the sticky traps were the best idea. 

I strategically placed the traps in the areas I thought would be a rat's path. I kid you not within an hour we caught that bad boy. I walked into the laundry room and happened to look in the area where I put the trap and it was gone! (Insert heart rapidly beating here) I saw a tail! Eww, eww, eww!  I high stepped it back into the living room and asked Coach to help me with something. Of course, he had to have an explanation before he jumped to my rescue. Luckily, he was man enough to take it outside. When he came back in I asked him what it looked like and where he had put it? He said "what do you mean, I threw it in the yard." I said "what do you mean you threw it in the yard! Won't a snake come in the yard and eat it? If it does then it will know the mouse came in our house, then we will have a snake in the house! Was it still alive?!" Coach said "yeah, it was still alive I didn't feel like messing with it tonight." Oh, so gross, I was creeped out all night! Apparently, it wasn't a huge rat like we had thought. This time it was just a mouse.

Let me interrupt to add this lovely piece of info. That night I had cooked a bowl of ramen noodles. I didn't finish them and we just set the bowl outside on the porch rail by our garbage can to throw away later.

The next morning I got up and went outside to see if the mouse was still there. Well the sticky trap was empty! What?! So weird. As I was walking back inside I noticed the bowl of noodles was empty. I thought nothing of it and asked Coach if he had dumped the noodles in the garbage he said he hadn't touched the noodles. Gross again! Whatever ate the ramen noodles probably ate the mouse. Yuck.  Well that's not all of the story it gets better. Later that day I was outside on the porch painting some furniture when Everett was at the bottom of the porch stairs pitching a royal fit. I got up to see what was wrong and saw that he had stepped on the sticky trap. It was stuck to his boot! I'm sorry but that was funny to watch, he couldn't shake it off of his boot as hard as he tried he was stuck and he couldn't stand it. I'm just happy he didn't touch it with his hands. I had totally forgotten to throw the trap away. I'm still grossed out.

I don't know if I should have shared that little story or not but it was just soo funny to me I thought maybe somebody could relate. I may remove it later so nothing is held against me for posting this. So enjoy it while it's up.