The Ledge

One note from yesterday that lead to some excitement in the Mentzer house last evening. When I came home with Isabelle from running errands Josh and BJ (Josh's best friend who spent the last 55 hours straight with Josh) were up to something. They were laughing and kind of looking by the stairs. After repeated attempts to get a response to "is everything ok guys?" all I could get was a "yeah, yeah..its good". Fast forward to late last night. I'm folding laundry and the dog is frantically going back and forth from me in the living room to the front door. Then she has her nose buried under the table in the entry. I finally answer her plea for help thinking she has a tennis ball stuck under the table. I look by it..nothing..I look under it only to gasp as I see a large shadow on the floor, against the wall under the bottom shelf. I of course yell for Josh and announce the largest bug I have ever seen is under the table. He lays down, reaches to grab it and laughs as he says "its a TOAD". He throws it in the garage (which I correct him and demand he get it out of the garage and take it outside) and continues laughing.

The kicker to the entire thing was when I said "oh, this is what you and BJ were doing this afternoon....you snuck a toad you found outside into the house?" "Yeah, we brought it to my room and were playing with it and then lost it". I asked how you lose a toad with two of you playing with it. "Well, we were throwing it up on the ledge and somehow we lost track of it". This folks is the ledge....above our front door. How it got down I can only guess one leap to the carpeted steps and a few hops to under the table. PETA folks rest assured it now lives happily in our bushes...free to roam and hop for cover when the dog is out. You have to give it to good old fashion creativity and fun.