The Lizard

This morning, Liz was helping Lily get ready while I got Mia ready. Lily proceeded to tell her a story about a little lizard that was playing on her umbrella and how it scratched her finger. She went into a lot of detail with this story. Now, Lily has a great imagination, but this seemed a little odd. Liz brought her into me, and Lily told me the same story. To be honest, I didn't pay much attention because Mia is a squirmy little thing on the changing table, and I thought Lily had seen a little lizard through the window on the deck. Thankfully, Liz was paying closer attention. She asked Lily to show her where the lizard was. A minute later I hear "Allison, she's right!" Sure enough, in the girls' playroom near the toy kitchen (just a few toys down from the umbrella Lily mentioned) was a lizard that was probably about 3 or 4 inches long. GROSS!!!

Liz and I just stared at it for a minute not really sure what to do. Liz then grabbed a towel from the kitchen, and I got one of Lily's smaller storage boxes. We stared at it some more trying to figure out what to do next. We decided we would trap it under the storage box until Ryan came home from getting his hair cut, and he could take it back outside. Lily sat on the back of the couch ("so I can watch better" in her words) while Mia walked around behind us thankfully oblivious to the lizard. Liz swatted at the little guy so he would run towards my storage box trap. Funny thing though...lizards are really fast! He ran right past us both (I'm sure the yelping and jumping around frightened him pretty good) and under the couch. Great, now what? Liz thought to get the broom and push him out which seemed like a great idea but he ran out the front of the couch instead of the side where I was. I tried to chase him a few steps across the room but again, lizards are really fast (and we have a ton of toys in there). He made it behind the chair. We moved the chair and he was standing against the wall (with his color having changed which was kind of cool). So, what did we do?

We stared at him again. We realized that if we watched him, he didn't move; this is a little freaky because that means he was watching us too. Liz decided she would be brave (seriously, I would never have volunteered for this) and pick up lizard with her towel. I went and unlocked the door so she could take him outside. "I'll keep the girls out of the way." We were just about to do this when we decided maybe Ryan's hair cut was almost over and he could come back and do this. We called and our hero came and saved the day. He was able to use the towel to trap the lizard into the storage box and take him outside. Yea for Ryan!!!

By the way, Lily does appear to have a very tiny scratch on her finger, but I'm honestly not sure if it's from this lizard; I think he would have left more damage than that. But, we put antibiotic cream and a Hello Kitty band-aid on it to help it heal. What a way to start the morning!