we found this toad in our driveway in missouri after my mom's birthday party. grace was so excited... can't you tell... and did not want to let it go! she loves frogs! well, this one peed on her, so she promptly dropped it, only to snatch it back up again and not let go. we have to tell her that the frogs/bugs/worms have to go back to their homes so that they can be with their family. that's the only way she will give them up. while in missouri, papa found several tree frogs and toads for her to play with for a few minutes. she was loving it!
a couple of days before the toad in the driveway, the girls were outside riding their bikes and playing. we had the garage door open, and inside the garage was a little june bug. grace found it and asked if she could hold it. i told her that this was a nice bug and she could. enter child #2 who hates all things creepy crawly. as grace is bending down to pick it up, raegan runs into the garage and steps on it. while raegan proudly announced, 'i killed it!', grace started to cry.
and finally, yesterday i spent the morning mowing the grass (which was about 10 feet long thanks to massive amounts of rain while we were in missouri) and spraying ant hills that popped up in our back yard. i told grace and raegan to stay away from the piles of dirt while they were playing in the back. well, after a snack of mini chocolate muffins, raegan comes running into the house crying, 'get it off, get it off.' she runs to see me and says as she is crying, 'i have an ant on me, it's going to eat me.' upon further investigation, i realize that it is not an ant, but a chocolate muffin crumb stuck to her hand... so, i tell her, 'it's not an ant, it's your muffin!' so she eats it. nice.
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I love these stories. Both girls are so unique and I can relate to Graces love of bugs. I have a few from my childhood my parents and siblings bring up when they want to embarrass me.
You have to put one of the pictures with the little frog in her hair! And Raegan with the frog too. :) Love you all tons!!!
Love the frog!!!!!! You know, we have 2 fire bellied toads here that Nikolas bought....they are super easy to take care of although you do have to feed them baby crickets....Gracie would totally dig them, wait, maybe I will send them to her for her 5th birthday!!!!!
I really wish you lived closer so that our girls could be bug buddies! Who knows, maybe they will go to BYU someday and work in a key chain factory together and get to know each other that way!
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