Bugs and Frogs

I am having bloggers block. All I can think about are frogs and bugs...so that is what I am posting about.

We have been touching a lot of bugs, and frogs, around here this week. Oscar is on a bug kick, so searching for bugs is what has been occupying a lot of our afternoons. He is really good at spotting the little creatures! One morning while at the park he found 5 spiders. We stored them in an empty water bottle until we got home, and then added them to a larger tupperware full of other bugs. Rollie pollies, stink beetles, centipedes, millipedes, worms, we have been handling and watching all of these and more.

On Tuesday night we took a bike ride over to our friends the Roper's house to search for frogs. They seem to have a lot of them over in their neighborhood, and the boys have been SO excited about it. The first place we looked was the hose box in the front of their house, and lucky for us we found two froggies!

It has been four days since we brought them home to our make-shift terrarium (an old plastic animal cracker container). On day one we nearly lost the bigger of the two, but after much staring at the grass and a precious prayer from Oscar, the frog was found! Sadly though, two days ago the littlest frog hopped away from us when we were not watching, and we have not able to find him again. To be honest, he is probably better off. It has been surprisingly hard to find and catch enough small bugs for them to eat. Especially because the boys would rather play with the bugs we find, than feed them to the frogs. I even bought some crickets the size of pin-heads for them. Unfortunately not very many of them remained in the frogs house. Oscar just could not keep his hands off of them. So I doubt the frogs had much of a chance to get full on crickets.

I am hoping I can talk Oscar into letting the little green guy go. As much fun as it is to keep them, they really are much better off in nature. Frogs, like many things, are meant to be free.