Just Buggy

A couple of weeks ago the girls were playing outside in the front lawn when all of a sudden they were yelling for me to come quickly! Realizing that their yells weren't cry's of desperation but excitement, I walked "quickly" to the front door. When I went outside, they were both on their hands and knees on the porch looking very intently at something--a huge, green praying mantis. Needless to say, we caught her and put her in Marisa's bug box. This worked out very cool because we had just started school so it was the perfect opportunity to get them into the learning frame of mind. We kept her for a few days, fed her moths, which is always entertaining, talked about what makes an insect and insect and of course the one question that my girls always want to know about anything, "Is it a boy or a girl?" So I explained to them that this one was a girl: the girls are bigger than the boys and that's about all you'll find this time of year because the girls eat the boys after they have babies-no need to elaborate, not yet anyways(not looking forward to those talks, hmmm.......) Of course then they want to know , "why?" At this point I could come up with many reasons(just joking, well sort of- LOL) but I chose to defer and told them that is the way God made them, just like the black widow spider-speaking of which, I'm being invaded!!!

Like I said we only kept her for a few days and then let her go because she was a good bug that ate lots of bad bugs.

I had to get a few pictures though.

good camouflage.

Their arms are so cool.

Apparently I need to clarify something that Bryan has brought to my attention as I was posting this. I am not implying that it is okay for wives to bite their husbands heads off-I'm sure that the opportunity to do this has presented itself numerous times and some of us I'm sure have snapped -point being , husbands aren't you thankful that God didn't make us like the praying mantis or the black widow?