Rodent Cronicles #1

I'm going to have to start from the beginning.

It all started about a week ago. Well, I have to start with a side note first. When Jack has a poop and the garage door is shut, we usually just throw them on the floor in the garage and next time the door is open, we put them in the trash. No big deal. right? It started to be a big deal last week. I stepped out into the garage to find one of the diapers had a hole chewed through it and there is diaper debree scattered all around it.

Crap, we have a rodent.

Now finding that rodent is not easy. We honestly didn't put a whole lot of effort into it at first other then not throwing the diapers down on the ground anymore.

That all changed yesterday. Saturday (the day before yesterday if you are counting), we decided to load the kids in the car and drive up to Waco to go to the zoo (thanks for the idea Lyndsee! I'll post pictures later). So, we go to the zoo, had a fabulous time. When we are getting into the car, Jack needed a diaper change. We changed him in the back of the car, but there was no trash can near by, so we just left it in the back to throw away at home. Don't worry, it wasn't stinky. haha! And wouldn't you believe it, I forgot to throw it out when we got home.

Fast forward to Sunday, yesterday. While at church, I remembered that I needed to take in the tableclothes that I brought home to wash. I run out to the van to get them, pull open the back and what do you think I saw?? The diaper was still there, but it was chewed up with debree all over it. You know what that means?

THE RODENT IS LIVING SOMEWHERE IN MY VAN!!!!

I gathered the tableclothes and went back in. Found Stuart and told him that he needed to take the van, right then, to clean it out and find the rat, mouse, rodent....whatever the heck it is. I didn't want to put me or my kids back in there knowing that there was something in there. YUCK! So, dear thing that he is, Stuart went and cleaned out the van. Found lots of droppings everywhere, but no rodent.

Came home and yes, on a Sunday he went to the store to get some mouse traps. He had just been down to his dads shop where his dad had to replace tons of wiring by the battery because a mouse had gotten in the engine and chewed the wires down. Stuart didn't want that to happen. He gets home with some traps and bait. He puts one on the battery, one in the back of the van and 2 on the floor of the gargage. We were going rodent hunting and we were going to catch ourselves a mouse (or whatever it is.)

Fast Forward to this morning. Stuart goes out to check the traps. The two were still in the garage, untouched. Pops open the hood, the one on the battery is still there. Opens the back to check back there, nothing. By nothing I mean nothing. No rodent. No rodent trap!!! The trap that he stuck back there was missing!!!

He took apart the car. Took out all the carseats and the seats that come out. He has looked EVERYWHERE and he can NOT find the rodent or the missing mouse trap. It has simply just vanished! There were fresh dropping in the van, so we know that he was in there (although you'd think the missing trap would have given it away).

So ends the Rodent Cronicles #1. We find ourselves with a missing rodent and a missing mouse trap with no signs of where it could have gone. It gives me the creeps to know that i'll be driving around with something in my van. YUCK.

Stay tuned for Rodent Cronicles #2.