Bugs

When we were playing at the sand box the other day, Annabeth spotted something on the wall, and said, "Look Mommy, a snail!" I looked, and there was a caterpillar. We have a lot of them all over the stucco walls on the outside of the house in the spring, and Annabeth has been having fun watching them crawl up the walls (she now calls them caterpillars):


Annabeth has also been noticing the big black beetles that we've been calling stink bugs. When we spotted one the other day, she said, "Run away, run away...no stink us, Mr. Stink Bug, no stink us!" She was quite upset. I think Grandma Maria has been telling her to stay away from those bugs so they don't stink. She was much calmer, just observing him, when I took this picture: