Ratatouille

Sunday night at approximately 1:45 a.m., yes you read that right A.M.!!  I got up to go to the bathroom and I could hear Ricky making lots of noise in his room.  I thought it was weird but headed back to bed. About a minute goes by and Rick comes flying into our room with a flash light and says "dad, get up there is a huge mouse in our house!"  So Kent doesn't move, he is sound asleep.  Me on the other hand sits up and say "WHAT?"  Rick again, "mom its a huge mouse come look." It was in his room and when he was trying to get it, it ran under his door and into the living room.  So I stumble to the living room he moves the girls chairs and it scurries across the living room into the bar.  My eyes are now wide open, I say "Rick, THAT IS A RAT NOT A MOUSE!"  We now go into the bar and its behind the dog house. Rick hands me the flashlight and he moves the dog crate.  It runs out behind where I am standing, I get on my tippy toes, yell and jump up and down.  The rat is now chasing me.  My heart is in my chest and I am freaking out!  It runs into the dinning room and darts behind a playpen I have sitting there.  Rick says "MOM, GO WAKE UP DAD,  CAUSE YOU ARE NO HELP, I NEED HIM TO HELP ME,!"  I say "dad is not going to get up, he is sound asleep he will tell me its no big deal.  I tell Rick get a bucket and we will trap it.  So Rick gets a bucket while I hold a flashlight, keeping an eye on the rat from a very safe distance I might add.  Rick moves the playpen it darts out and he gets it with the bucket. Problem is its head is sticking outside of the bucket.  I say "yayy, you are my hero you got it!! BUT I don't thinks its dead."  So Rick lifts the bucket up and slams it back down on the rat.  Now there is a trickle of blood running on my tile floor.  Ricks replies "mom, its dead now!"  Now Rick wants a pair of yellow Kitchen gloves to dispose of it.  I don't own any.  He gets a pair of rubber gloves and I get him a bag to put it in.  Rick says, "mom, don't you want to take a picture of it for your blog?"  Way to look out for your mommy son!  I say oh yes, grab my camera and snap a quick picture and then he disposes of the rat, he even cleans the blood off the tile for me!  My hero!!

Of coarse now I can't sleep.  I envision more friends of the rat running through my house.  I think of them  in bed with my girls or me. So I had every light on and sat at my computer with my feet up and talked about it on FB until almost 4:00 a.m..  Let me tell you how many people are up at that time on FB.  We had over 200 entires on my FB page.  I have not found any droppings or any other rodents running around. So I am hoping he was the only one and we killed him before he could go get his friends like in Ratatouille.