The World's Dumbest Mouse!!!

So on Sunday night me and Derek were enjoying our Sunday night ritual, watching the Food Network and snacking, and we heard this weird ruffling noise. The kids were both asleep and all of the windows were shut, so we couldn't figure out what the noise was. We turned off the T.V. and sat down on the floor and listened. Derek went in the hall and I was in the living room. All of the sudden there was this loud scratching noise and thud in the heat vent. I yelled at Derek to come in the room and then the noise wouldn't stop. So I all run into the bathroom because being startled makes me have to pee, and all of the sudden Derek screamed like a girl and I heard many choice cuss words! He was totally freaking out. I was scared to go out of the bathroom becuase I thought that he had let out what ever was in the vent. So I yelled at him and he wouldn't answer, he was still freaking out, so I went out really slowly to make sure he wasn't being attacked or anything. He was standing back by the couch and looking scared to death. So apparently Derek had leaned over the heat vent, with his ear right to the vent, and the noise kept getting closer and closer to his ear until he thought it had jumped out at him. I have never seen him so terrified! So of course, I busted up laughing. He went outside to get his flashlight and he came back to look in the vent, I was still laughing by the way. So he looked in the vent and saw this mouse, it's no bigger than a quarter. So the vents are pretty steep and he would try to take a running leap at the top and then he would fall back down.

Then my weird anxiety attacks started kicking in, so I ran around shutting all of the vents and put books on them so that the stupid thing wouldn't get out. Derek kept making fun of me and laughing at me now, but I kept imagining that stupid mouse on Mouse Hunt that totally killed that house and I didn't want any of that. And then, to top it off, Derek started talking to the stupid mouse and telling me that he was so cute. I told him that he'd better stop making friends with the mouse and better start making plans to get rid of it. So with firm resolve, we decided to buy as many traps as we could the next day.

So this morning, I got up to get ready for work and the stupid thing came up to the bathroom vent to greet me. I greated him with a scream and words that Jenny didn't hear, thankfully, becuase she was asleep. But I was still feeling confident because the vent was shut and i'm thinking geeze this mouse is so stupid thinking that he can jump at this thing and it will open. Well no sooner than I thought it, the mouse took another running leap and landed on the vent thing and opened it up so now he was looking at me inside of the blower thing. I screamed and swore and threw water down the vent and then I tried to open it to let the stupid thing back down. Well I shut the vent so he was still staring at me and I really freaked out. I finally managed to get the stupid thing back down the vent and I almost squished him, but not quite. Grrrrr.....Then I realized I should have just torn open the screen and thrown the vent out the window.

So then I found the heaviest books that I could and put them on the vent, and the stupid thing was still jumping up. So I hurried up out of the bathroom and stuffed a towel under the door and shut it. I wrote a caution note on the door for Derek and left the house. Well, Derek comes home and loves the warning sign. He thought I was crazy. He bought some sticky traps and he put them in the vents and we waited for the mouse to wake up for his nightly romp so now we can hear the stupid thing running back and forth through all of the vents. He is still jumping and not landing in the sticky stuff but we will get him. But mark my words, this mouse is going down....