A mouse in the house!

Have you ever had this happen? You think you see something, but then maybe it is your eyes playing tricks on you? Well, a few Saturdays ago, I came into the family room and out of the corner of my eye I saw a mouse run into our book self. When I told Dan to come check, I thought, maybe it was just my imagination! Yes, I know...I had a pet rat and a hamster as a child. I also love snakes. MICE are different! They are fast and they are small and they are in places I don't want them (my house). I was TERRIFIED! We cleared the books and peaked...cleaned...peaked, but nothing! A couple days later we start hearing mice scratching in the book shelf. For several nights Dan and I would hear this and I am thinking, "where could it be?" With a curious toddler and a very adventurous 4 year old, we can't exactly put mice traps or poison around the house. My mother suggested putting a sticky trap under the bed in the room behind the bookshelf. I did just that and the very next day, there was a little baby mouse stuck to it. I have to tell you. I was terrified to even check the trap. I made my adventurous 4 year old Melanie come with me and look first. She said, "yes mommy there is a little baby mouse and I want to keep him." OK, so these traps don't kill the mice right? Melanie wanted it off. I was scared she would go into the room when I wasn't paying attention and try to get it off the trap. Well, I wasn't going to touch it! After calling around to all the pest control companies and finding out it was going to cost $50 to just take a "caught mouse" to the trash can, I called my brother John. He was getting home from a business trip and stopped by on his way home. He had to bring his 3 year old son with him who thought it was the coolest thing ever! Melanie still asks where the mouse is. We just say it is gone. Don't know how to explain that we simply threw it in the trash can. I put another trap out just in case our friend had a family....nothing yet. I have Melanie check it everyday!