Now, you may be wondering, "What does this have to do with window screens?" As I mentioned before, once she gets an idea in her head, there is no stopping it until she sees it through. I was upstairs enjoying a quiet evening of recorded Dancing With the Stars (another guilty pleasure) and chatting on the phone with Stacey, when I heard a knock at the door. Matt, answered it, and I didn't think anything else of it, until about 45 minutes later when Matt appeared at my office door, looking slightly out of breath and really pissed off. When I asked what was up, he not so calmly asked how it was possible I didn't hear him yelling and peeling out of the drive in my car. Again, I go back to Dancing and an entertaining conversation with one of my best friends. As it turns out, it was our neighbor at the door with a bit of troubling news.
It seems that our little Roxie, not interested in being calm and watching movies with Matt, had decided to look for adventure in the great outdoors. As we were not opening the door for her, she took the liberty of jumping out our front window. Screen be damned, she was getting out of this house. When our neighbor reported said escape (and thank goodness someone saw her, because we never heard the escape) Matt sprang into action, jumping in the car to go track her down. As he drove the neighborhood yelling her name anther friendly home owner, stopped Matt and reported that our pup was now in her backyard. Luckily they recognized Matt and Roxie as belonging together after seeing them out on one of their many afternoon walks.
As Matt stealthfully entered the yard trying to catch her off guard so he could capture our convict before she bolted again, we learned why she had picked this particular yard. In a community of over 300 homes, Roxie had found the one house in the neighborhood where the children of the home had spilled Skittles all over the backyard. My single minded puppy was on a mission to eat every last one before Matt captured her and secured her in the car to bring her home once again. As he told me this story of escape and return, he was clearly upset, but I couldn't help but want to smile a little. I still had the image of her trapped in a Skittles bag fresh in my mind from earlier in the day. While she may not be the worlds best behaved pup, she certainly does entertain and keep us on our toes.
While adding a baby to the mix a few short months, may still scare the Skittles out of us, at least we know that we are prepared for just about anything life throws our way. If living with Roxie for the past two years has taught me anything it is, that being adorable really does go a long way in mommy being able to laugh at the most ridiculous and infuriating situations with out actually following through on the death threats I want to make daily. I think this little one of ours teamed with this crazy young pup is going to be fodder for all sorts of stories we will be telling for years to come, that is if I survive them. LOL
