What is that smell???

Okay so this isn't a post about the kids since they were all in bed (well, almost all of them) when this event happened a few weeks ago. But for those animal lovers that watch our blog - you'll love this one.
So we were putting the kids to bed and often when the kids are in bed, Spence and I and our little Lennox walk outside on our porch and just sit for a minute or we walk out our helper for the night. We don't usually have helpers during the day much anymore but I love to have 3 people at night so the babies all get cuddles and loves for awhile before bed. Anyway, so this night...

Lennox started barking at the window like he had seen something and Spence looked out and saw a little black thing walking across our front lawn (which he thought was our neighbors dog)and so he opened the door and walked out with Lennox while I was putting Jax down. Lennox raced down the steps on our side and Spence chased after him because we don't let him go down the steps without us since he'd run after anything that was nice to him :) Lennox was barking like crazy! Jax was having a rough night falling asleep so I walked out of his room and put him in the swing so I could go see what in the world Lennox was so upset about and then.. I smelt it!

I walked out on our porch and yelled, "SKUNK!" to Spence and I could see him standing way down on our side steps and yelled, "GET HIM - there's a skunk!" And yes, indeed - there was. Spence grabbed Lennox and walked back upstairs with him and said, "are you sure?" (He couldn't really smell it like I could because crazily enough, skunk smell when you are close up just smells like burnt rubber)

Long story short, our little Lennox got sprayed after he had cornered the skunk into one of our bushes. Poor boy! I raced to find an online "cure" for the smell because by now, it was all through our house - yep! that fast. So into the bath he went...

We found a mixture of hydrogen peroxide, dish soap and baking soda and it worked like a charm! The smell totally went away that night. Except, the funny thing is even now when his feet get wet, there is a faint scent of skunk to remind us of this very stressful, amusing night.