Showing posts with label Bugs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bugs. Show all posts

Saturday, May 09, 2009

Bugs, Bugs, and More Bugs

I’m not a bug person. I don’t mind them outside, but inside the house...they really bother me. I’m starting to wonder why I said I would move to Uganda. : ) We have ants everywhere. And really big ones. Rachel was showing Isaac how to step on them the other day, but Isaac realized that sometimes he would miss, so now he just uses his fingers to squash them. yuk! Today he brought me one in bed.

There are also spiders. Thankfully I haven’t seen any big ones yet! But we do have those jumping spiders...which for me are just as bad. I had a traumatic experience with one back in high school (remember that mom?!).

Today I picked up the bath mat in the bathroom to hang it up to dry, and look what i found.



Yes millipedes. I don’t know why these creep me out as much as they do, but they do. and it really grossed me out b/c i could have easily stepped on them. I had seen two by our front door before but Jesse was around to get them out, this time he was not. So I had to muster up some courage and try to get them on a piece of paper so i could throw them out. By the time I had found a big enough piece of paper one had already crawled under Isaac’s car seat (which was just sitting on the floor). I moved the car seat, but as I did I accidentally cut the sucker in half! Both halves were still moving. That’s just wrong! Needless to say, I finally got them both out of my house, and we now make sure we pick up the bath mat as soon as we are done taking a shower.

We’ve had one more bug bother the Rudy household... the stomach bug. Poor Levi had a temp for about 24 hours and started throwing up. I then got it the next day. Thankfully I am feeling better today. Just really weak, but at least it’s not malaria. Hopefully no one else comes down with anything!

There is one good thing....


at least we have him to help us out! (just in case you can't tell it's a lizard, i tried to get a closer picture but that just scared him away)