Bella and the Bug

My kids love their critters! They are constantly hunting for worms, which they name wormmy every time. They love to poke at all the slugs and make them curl up. We have a cup of five growing Caterpillars in the kitchen which we check every morning. We have a snake we see on our walks, and the kids always want to touch it. Isaac always seems to find the same big green frog in the back yard and will pack him around all day until I start to feel sorry for it and make him put it back in the grass. But Bella took bug loving too a whole new level when she found the biggest beetle ever and insisted it was her pet and packed it around all day! Her favorite part was it would shine purple in the sun. She loved petting it and watching it crawl around in her hand. She even brought in inside so it could watch her eat lunch. She was really sad when I made her put it back outside so she could take her nap without the beetle. I was glad to see it go.