Spit....

We found a spit bug today. I have seen many of spit on plants, but the bug has already vacated. This time we caught him. "why is he spitting?" Very good question. So, we looked it up. They are also called froghoppers. They spit to hide themselves from preditors and keep themselves from drying out. We even found out that the childrens author 'Eric Carle' http://www.eric-carle.com/has written about a spittle bug in his book 'the very quiet cricket'. Which is one book I do not own...hint, hint, but will find at the library soon. This tells more if you are interested. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froghopper

paint jobs and worms galore

"I'm paintin my car pretty." "I'm paintin mine blue" "can I have blue?" "No, I'm using it. You can have it when I'm done."....(They are just using water) I have green (Jesse's favorite color). wanna trade green and blue?" "Ummmm.........Okay!" "My car is princess pretty" Such detail.....Anyone need a paintjob?

I found a piece of half rotted cardboard behind the bush. I picked it up to throw it away, but instead found a treasure. Worms....rolly polly bugs, and slugs. Slugs....not so much a treasure, but the other 2 were. I called Connor over to show him what I had uncovered and slowly they all started gathering around. I stepped back to watch and then of course had to run and get my camera. These are not your typical little worms....they were huge....nightcrawler types.
Pretty cool!