HappyMama

  Our neighbor saw a turtle today at the end of our driveway & pointed it out to me.  The boys were thrilled.  We made a cage for him out of chicken wire in the back yard.  I asked my son what name he thought would be good for a turtle, and he responded, “reptile!”  Good classification.  “How about Rep?” I asked.  “That’d be good.”  Okay, now I need to go research how to take care of a turtle.

All our work this evening was worth it when we started catching grasshoppers in our bug-catcher.  Twice, my 2-year-old dropped a big grasshopper right in front of the turtles head and we all watched it get gobbled up.  We were enthalled!  My BS in biology may be worthless, but I do still have the enthusiasm of a toddler when it comes to watching nature…