Squirrel went Berserk!

Our night seemed to be like any other night in The Meadors household....  Oaks was eating before his bedtime with the lights off in the living room.  Both dogs were sleeping on their beds and Cory was watching tv.  Nothing new.  Nothing exciting.

THEN... I noticed something moving at the corner of the room near the hallway, the light caught it and I thought it was a mouse.  Great.  We have brought the mice to Jonesboro from highway 34.  Then, suddenly, I saw a very bushy tail.  I screamed "There's SOMETHING!" - Cory and Banjo saw the furry creature at the same time.  Cory yells, "A SQUIRREL!!"  Banjo chases it down the hallway, turns it back around and runs it back into the living room/kitchen.  Cory the entire time is trying to keep Banjo away in fear he would kill it.  The squirrel runs next the refrigerator and that was the last time we saw it.

Cory tells me it went back outside, not to worry, blah blah blah blah.  So, I put Oaks to bed and we go to bed for the night.

Around 2:30am that morning Oaks begins to stir around (WILL HE EVER SLEEP??) so I get up to try to calm him down. [Yes, he is still in my room, yes I know he needs to be in his crib.  No, I don't care what you think about it.]  Anyway, I'm soothing Oaks, Cory gets up to use the bathroom.  He flips on the bathroom light in the bedroom and I see movement in the floor.  The squirrel had made it's way into the bedroom.  Cory screams, I scream.....then Oaks screams.  Fantastic, we woke the baby.  Cory chases the squirrel around the room.  Under the bed, in my closet, out my closet, UP MY CURTAINS.  That's when I nearly lost it, there is an animal climbing up my curtains.  Cory finally gets it cornered in the closet, using a t-shirt, he tries to catch it.  He misses, under the door the squirrel goes.  Mind you, Cory is running around his underwear this entire time chasing this squirrel.  I wish I could have videoed it.  Cory shoves dirty clothes from the laundry basket under the door and says let's go back to sleep since who knows where it is now and we will find it tomorrow.  Being sleep deprived, I agreed.

Around 4:30am Oaks wakes up for his feeding.  I have him in bed with us so he can eat and maybe I can catch a few Zzzz's before time for work.  Cory gets up to turn his alarm off on his phone that is on the chest in our room and the squirrel runs right by his feet!  It is back.  Cory starts his chase again.  Up the curtains, down the curtains.  The squirrel was running along my curtain rod, through the metal rings on my curtains.  I'm sitting in bed feeding Oaks trying to figure out how in the world I'm going to move, without unlatching, to avoid this squirrel.  If it would have jumped on the bed I would have pooped my pants.

Finally Cory got closet enough to him to catch him.  He was using a tshirt to act as a barrier between him and the squirrel.  Cory said as soon as he grabbed a hold of him he started biting.  After looking at pictures I got of the squirrel we have come to the conclusion that this was not a baby squirrel in our house but a flying squirrel.  If they thing would have jumped off my curtain rods and glided around my room Cory and I would have both died.

We are the Criswolds.

Eating Fun

Oaks has recently started eating cereal.  Well, rice actually.  It has been called "cereal" by so many people that is what we call it.  Many Moms buy a box of rice cereal and that is the first food they feed their child.  Well, of course I have to do something different worried about all the extras they put into that stuff.  I actually bought brown long grain rice and ground it up myself.  Cooked 1/2 cup of rice to 1 cup of water on low heat.  Then puree the rice once it is soft and mushy using my baby bullet to make Oaks his "cereal."

He loves his rice some days and other days would prefer to nurse or have a bottle.  It really is hit or miss with him.  Watching him sit up either in his Bumbo or his Booster seat is hilarious though.  Such a big boy. 

I typically feed Oaks.  There has been a few times though that Cory has given it a whirl.  I am going to record them one day just so everyone else can hear their conversation.

"Oaks, look at Dad.  Bite"
"Oaks, Oaks, Oaks, look at Dad."
 "You can't have the spoon Oaks."
"Give Dad the spoon Oaks."
"Don't scream at me, you can't feed yourself."
"Shh, shh, shh here take a bite.  Don't get mad."
"Here (puts cereal on the tray), Here feed yourself then."
"Oaks, ugh, you have it all over you.  Do you not want a bite?"
"Ughhh I don't think I can do this.  Oaks, here take a bite."

Needless to say, it is hilarious.  Oaks does like to feed himself with the spoon (Dr. Matthews said he was a child genius) so it makes it difficult of course to get the cereal in his mouth without it covering his hands and face.  We tried fresh avocado this week, it didn't go over well.  We will be moving onto other foods sometime soon, no rush for him to grow up! 

Stay tuned.