Yesterday morning we woke up and came out to the living room, and I opened the blinds for the back door and there were baby grasshoppers EVERYWHERE (on the INSIDE). Of course I was wondering were in the world they came from and HOW did they get in the house???
Ethan’s kindergarten class has been talking about bugs lately, so I thought that I might as well catch some and send them to school with him. He was so excited to show them off to all his friends and his teacher, but she sent them home with him because she didn’t know how to feed them. So when Kyle took the kids to PetSmart last night he picked up a couple critter keepers (I have no idea what they are actually called), to keep the baby grasshoppers in. And since he got two Ethan claimed one for his grasshoppers that he took to school, and Jeremy claimed the other one and asked me to catch some more grasshoppers for his critter keeper. So here are my boys with their bugs:
You can’t really see the bugs in the keepers since they are baby grasshoppers and are quite small (if you look on the top of Jeremy’s keeper there are a couple of black specks, those are some of the bugs). But the kids are thoroughly enjoying watching them and giving them fresh grass and leaves. Ethan keeps trying to catch more and gets so excited when he actually does catch one. I keep trying to catch more, when I see them on the back window or on the floor by the back window. After all I don’t need them loose in the house. 😉