Ant Invasion!

So our house has sooo sooo many ants everywhere! I can not leave any kind of food out for more than a couple of hours or they are right there by the thousands. I have had to throw away a few things cause they have snuck into my cupboards and gotten into my food they have been all around the syrup lid they seriously get into everything! At first I could keep them out with the peppermint but now I think they are too use to it. So Jace was driving his cars on the floor in the kitchen when I hear him start crying and say bite bite bug. So I run over and he is holding his foot and he say bite bug (he calls ants spiders flies and insect really a bug) again and sure enough they were all over the floor where he was. And I seriously just got done cleaning the kitchen. So I took his car and smashed a few. Jace got excited and grab his car and started driving over all of them trying to kill them ha