{7pm Thursday night}
Crisis! Addie saw lizard on lamp in bedroom. I couldn't catch so we are snuggled in chair in living room. told her she didn't have to go back in room until you caught lizard. tiny and green.
our entire table got a good laugh.
and while clearly this was indeed not a crisis; in three-year-old-world, it was!
by the time we got home, Addie was sound asleep in her bed.
crisis averted?
{7am Friday morning}
mommy/daddy, there was a lizard on my lamp in my room.
yes, i'm sure he's gone back outside to live with his family...
{fast forward about 36 hours}
i go to grab a bow for addie's hair as we're leaving the house...
...and there he is! perched on the warm lamp again.
i try to grab him, and he jumps to the wall and crawls up to the crown molding.
paul stands on the stool and tries to grab it, and it jumps to the roman shade.
i see it and try to grab it, but it jumps from the shade to the blinds to the dresser to the floor and quickly runs...
...behind her bed!
(now try picturing that!)
assuring addie that he is headed back to his family, we leave.
{Later that night}
Addie's all ready for bed; and as i go to help her in bed, i think to myself:
am i really going to put her in a bed that we are almost certain a lizard is hiding behind?
and i move her giraffe and pillow and there he is!
asleep, as still as he can be, under her pillow!
i tell addie to get daddy quickly. huh she says? go get daddy fast! hurry!
no time
i cup my hands over it and it slides out. i cover it again with one hand and scoop it up, tail sticking out as he wriggles in my hand.
my thought: do lizards bite? if so, do they hurt?
we run out the front door with Addie in tow, and i gently lay my hand down and let him jump out.
finally...crisis over!
lizard returned to his family...outside!
let's just hope he doesnt decide to come back in to bask on Addie's lamp!
i'm not sure i can catch another one anytime soon!
my only regret? i didn't get a picture of it ;-)
