Wile E. Coyote

What a shock to us...we had just finished eating lunch and were cleaning up the the table when Todd said that there was a coyote in our back yard. I told him that he must be mistaken, but sure enough, I looked out the window and saw a coyote wondering around our play set. Before I could say another word, Elmer Fudd, I mean Todd, had gone upstairs and had come back down with his shot gun in hand! He went outside and, from a pretty good distance away, killed the coyote with one shot. Needless to say, Todd was very proud of himself! He joked about having the thing stuffed but I quickly said no! Here are some pictures of Todd with his "prize" just before he went and disposed of it! I guess that he can give up deer hunting for coyote hunting! We are so proud of our sharp shooter!

On a side note, I had first thought that I wouldn't mention the whole coyote thing to the boys but then decided that I needed to take this opportunity to talk to them about the dangers of wild animals and especially at how, even though coyotes look so much like dogs, they really aren't and can be very harmful to us. I was really directing all of this at Jackson-he absolutely loves animals and I was fearful of the possibility of him seeing another coyote in our yard and going up to pet it! After my little speech I told them that we should be thankful that daddy was here to kill it. Carter looks up at the sky and, without batting an eye, holds his hands up and says "Thank You, Jesus". It was too cute! I couldn't help but giggle a little at how he said it!



Here is a picture of Wile E. Coyote


















Here is a picture of Todd proudly displaying his trophy! Don't laugh but I MADE him wear the gloves that he has on to touch the mangy varmit-I did not want him to get any sort of disease from this critter!