The kids discovered rolly polly bugs on the floor in the kitchen. These are easily their favorite bugs. Imagine finding them in the house! They were thrilled. Grace had one crawling round and round her arm at the kitchen table. Yes I’m fine with this as long as they don’t put their bugs on me.
Little Jason walked in and immediately the search began for his own rolly polly. He picked one up. I eyed it suspiciously and told him that when they are hard and don’t roll up they are dead, just in case. He didn’t say anything, but continued to play with it.
A few minutes later Faith sat down to eat breakfast. She asked Little Jason if he had found a rolly polly yet. “Yeah (big sigh) but it’s dead.”
My sister and I used to play with those things all the time when we were little. We even tried to keep them as pets. Gross!!!! Lol!
tater bugs I loveeeee tater bugs.. still do to this day..
Interesting… I’m not sure what we call those in South Africa, actually.
Here we are mainly overrun with ants. No matter what you do, with stone floors and about a foot of sand underneath, somehow there are always a few ants running around.
My kids used to be scared of them, so I always tell them “the ant is going to play,” or “he’s looking for his mommy.”
We’ve used exterminators, but that stuff is really toxic (you have to leave your house for 6-8 hours, and there is this horrible powder all over), and not worth it for a few ants.
You write the funniest things. I used to pick bugs up. I guess as we grow up most of us wouldn’t touch one.
I still love those lil roll-up bugs 🙂