I could not believe it! I grabbed my camera and had to take pictures. I also grabbed a tape measure because I had to know how long he was! He measured just over 3 inches and his tail was still curled a little! I threw a bobby pin next to him so you can see how big he is.
Then I decided to have a little fun with him. I poked him, tapped him, he ran and I poked him some more. The kids laughed, I was having a great time until he ran down the drain! Ugh... Can he run back up the drain? I turned on the piping hot water and let it run - thinking it would burn him. After a few minutes I turned it off and stepped on the drain cover to close it. Then it hits me... He could climb out of ANY drain in the house!!! David is laughing at me, Christina is crying and saying she hates living here and I am frozen with fear! I have closed all the drains in the bathrooms, then I realize there is another hole at the top of the sink he could get out of. Now what?? David just keeps laughing and telling me I should have just killed him. So, here I am, I don't want to go to bed because our bed is currently just a mattress on the floor (our rental furniture was taken away Wednesday and we are without a few things, so our mattress is just on the floor!) I am so freaked out I can't go to bed. I know I won't sleep! Too bad I don't have a couch to sleep on or I would. I told Michael I was going to sleep in his bed, he is the only one with a mattress off the floor. So, I guess at some point I will get use to these scorpions, Nah... who am I kidding, I don't think I ever will! They are just creepy!!
Just one question... Does anyone know, do they crawl on carpet? We have some shag carpet that is the EXACT color of the darn things. David and I have convinced ourselves that they don't crawl on the carpet because it is too 'hard' for them to get thru all the shag, not worth the effort in our opinion. We thought maybe they prefer tile or wood floors, or walls and baseboards? Is this true? Please say yes!!! I don't think I will ever get sleep if they like carpet!!!
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Yeah, that is NASTY! I was running the bath water for the girls when I saw a giant spider. I had already put the plug in so he wouldn't just go down the drain. I was freaking out, I called Brian (who was at work) so he could hear if the thing bit/ate me. I eventually got it in a jar with minial screaching from me and the girls. But, then Sabrina was freaked out of the bathtub for a week after that! I don't envy the scorpians. I will take giant yucky spiders over them any day!
UGH! Scorpions freak me out too! Come move next door to me! We have been here for over 5 years and have not seen any! Of course we have had our share of black widows (all outside)...so I guess you have to pick your poison. Hopefully he went down the drain and came out at the neighbor's house!
Oh man! you should have asked candi when she stopped by. She could have told you. I will have to ask her about the carpet thing. just remember to vacuum often! Love from all of us.
We were so lucky when we bought our house here. We have yet to see a scorpion in almost 2 years. I'd like to keep it that way.
scary!! hi this is Don Campbell I just happened to be stumbling around the blogisphere and look who i find. You have a very lovely family. No really i ran into sarah on facebook and she told me how i could say hello. hope life has been good for you guys. I dont mean to intrude but i wanted to quickly say hi and just so you know, in our house my wife(rae)does the scorpion/spider/anything creepy killing. if you want me and Rae have a blog that we set up for birthmoms to view our profile and nose around so check it out if you want. you guys have a merry christmas. Don Campbell
Hey, my girlfriend lives in vegas and she only gets the babies, rarely! When we visited last year, it freaked the kids out, too!
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