lollypop lollypop, oh lolly-lolly-lolly lollypop!

by teresa

Last night we left for Kai's game about 30 minutes before Lauren had to leave to cheer for a volleyball game. Which meant she would be responsible for closing up the house and putting the dog out (or in the garage).
Well we pulled up and the front door was wide open (around 7:15pm) and all the lights were on. We walked in and saw a trail of lollypop wrappers leading from the front door....down the hall and around the corner into the living room. When we reached the living room Shorty went running out and hid in the kitchen. The entire room was covered with candy wrappers. Ben had left his pumpkin on the coffee table (about 2 feet tall) and Lauren had left Shorty HOME ALONE! The pumkin was too heavy to tip over or pick up....so Shorty must have stretched up on his hind legs (his inch long hind legs) and reached inside that pumpkin with all his might and taken out all that candy piece by piece. I should have taken a picture...but our first reaction was to clean it up before it stained. There must have been thirty chewed up lollypop sticks stuck to the carpet (you could tell what his favorites were), and empty bags of peanut M&Ms. The rest of the candy was just strewn about here and there.....wet from being inside his mouth. When we called out Shorty's name he took off for the stairs. Chris chased him down and we put him in time out (garage) for the rest of the evening. I'm shocked the dog isn't sick from all that chocolate and sugar.
When I spoke to Lauren about it this morning she was like ,"oh, so it's my fault Ben left his pumpkin out on the table?" Then she just grumped back up to her room.

Grrrrr!

I think I will have a chore list for her when she gets home from school today. hee hee