About two months ago some of my family came to visit us over the weekend and we made some great memories. Our favorite of all, you ask?? The story of the Lizard Man. One of the nights they were here, The girls...Mom, Ashley and I, went to get some food. The guys.. Dad and Brad, stayed home with all the kids. While we were at Panda Express I get a phone call from Brad and things sound pretty crazy on their end. I can hear Hawk wailing in the background. I had no idea what was going on. Brad informs me that he saw Hawk sprint and jump out of the kitchen with a quickness and then start crying hysterically. He then tells me that Hawk is saying something bit him. I get home and Hawk runs up to me... tears streaming down his face, barely able to talk at this point... telling me he got bit by something and his foot hurts really bad. I get down on the ground and start examining his foot. I have been stung by a scorpion before and so I know how painful that can be and I also know you can't really see a hole or any type of puncture wound. At this point I am beginning to think that must be it. I bring him over to the couch and show him different pictures of what I think may have bit him..
The first set of pictures..
Scorpions
He informs me that none of those things bit him... Next up...
Earwigs...
Nope!! That wasn't it either. At this point I get up and go look in the kitchen to see if I can maybe find the thing that bit him. I look everywhere. I even grabbed the broom to see if I could sweep in places I couldn't see and possibly fish it out... NOTHING! So my last option was that maybe it was a lizard?? These are the exact pictures I showed him on Google...
He starts yelling, "THAT'S IT!! THAT'S THE THING THAT BIT ME!!!" I have no idea what lizard he is talking about so I tell him to point to the one that he saw bite him..
He points... to... This one.....
Uummm... son... that couldn't have possibly bit you because that is a fake lizard . It is in fact a man dressed up in a lizard costume. He insisted that was it, so we all just played along. We named him "The Lizard Man" and all the kids from then on were wayyy too scared to even come close to the kitchen. Later that evening, I swept up the kitchen and found an earwig under the sink.. I am pretty positive that is the thing that bit him.. I guess it would actually be a pinch, but to this day Hawk still talks about the Lizard Man in the kitchen and how scary it was...
