BUGS!

Last week we took Hudson to the Wee Wiggler class at the zoo. It was all about bugs. I was a little disappointed that they only brought out 2 real bugs for the class to look at. I was expecting more hands on kind of stuff. The rest of the class was just playing with toys and reading a book. But I guess with little kids and small bugs you have to be careful! Hudson still had a good time. He's signed up to go again next month to the session on frogs. I think I will send Jamie and him to that one - I HATE frogs!

My son was the only child who thought it was more fun to throw all the paper shreds on the floor instead of playing with the bugs hiding in the paper!

Checking out the Madagascar hissing cockroaches


This one was some kind of centipede - Hudson REALLY wanted to hold it!

BUGS!

Hudson's newest hobby - bug collecting! On Sesame Street the other day it was all about bugs and he really liked it and was saying some of the bug's names like firefly and bee and bug. The next morning we go outside and he runs down the driveway yelling "bug" and picks up this huge - dead (thank goodness!) - bug laying on the ground. Then we found a few more. He has his whole collection out on the front steps and likes to play with them everytime we go outside now. YUCK! Today we played with some live grasshoppers - daddy was home - mommy doesn't touch bugs! - and he enjoyed that. But I think he likes them dead just as much as alive. Which might be why he tried to squeeze the poor grasshopper so hard! :)

His collection - not sure what the green ones are but there were 2 dead ones on the driveway. The one on the left is a rock but he wanted it in his collection anyway. The brown one is a cicada shell. The far right is a rolypoly.

Looking for more bugs.

Call the exterminator!!