Donny & I decided it would be fun to do a little bug hunt. He loves playing with rolly polly bugs and watching centipedes & we haven't done it in a while. Our backyard was the perfect place to look as it has rained plenty lately and we have lots of yummy mud and dead flowers and leaves for bugs to play in. We quickly found a nice long worm that Donny couldnt wait to get his hands on. We found a bit more than bugs though...
Can you tell what he's holding in the picture above? It's a creepy salamander almost as long as the worm we found. It was very easy to catch because it was sitting completely still and stayed that way most of the afternoon, even when Donny fiddled with him. I was afraid to touch it with my bare hands but I let Donny pick it up...does that make me a bad mom?
Our loot of the day: 1 long earthworm, 1 big salamander, 4 baby salamanders ( they are the little squigglies in the middle of the pan) & 8 rolly pollies.
Donny had a great time with them but I was feeling sorry for the salamanders because they were finally starting to move and making pathetically slow attempts to escape their shallow prison, so I asked him to let them go. He didn't want to "No, I want to play with them Mommy," but I convinced him that they were sad & wanted to go back home so he relented. There's nothing like a good successful bug hunt.
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No, that doesn't make you a bad mom, because I let Samaya do the same once those little bugs start to show..and if you are a bad mon then that make two of us:)
Samaya loves them as well..her favorites are rollie pollies and caterpillars. This time we're going to build a home for the caterpillar hoping that it would go through the whole process into a butterfly..we're looking forward to it. What's funny its that we were talking about it (bugs) today and she can't wait for us to begin our own hunt:). I'll show the picts to Samaya tomorrow.
You're an amazing mom. After we talked about Donny playing with the worm the other day, I read an article about how it's good not to step in and let the kids take risks (it made me feel better letting Apollo do crazy things sometimes).
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