Well it was bound to happen, I am outnumbered by 3 in this household. Right after we moved into the new house Christian found a praying mantis, we put it in a mason jar and had plans to get it a larger cage. Unfortunately the bottle fell in a drive way and the praying mantis survived and flew away before we could recapture it. Christian was devastated and cried pretty hard about it. A couple mornings later we found another one in our garage, we couldn't believe our luck! We got proper housing for it and read up online about them. All other bugs caught before now had a very short lifespan and we were hoping to keep this one alive! Well we have done a good job because she has been with us since the beginning of August and she is thriving. She has laid two egg sacks! The boys love watching her capture bugs and eat them while their legs are still wiggling, it is cool but gross all at the same time :)
While at the sand dunes with the Robertson's, Raymond and Dan caught the kids lizards. The boys did not want to part with them so we said what the heck their free right? Well let me tell you getting a lizard habitat set up is not cheap. Christian named his lizard Daniel Otto, after his Dad and himself, naturally. Evan thought long and hard about what he wanted to name his and settled on Snowball.
The first time the lizards molted Evan was very concerned that they would die. After I explained it to him he became very concerned that he would molt! Don't worry I set him straight :)
Unfortunately Snowball just passed away a week or so ago, the boys were pretty sad. So now Daniel the lizards gets all the crickets to himself and seems to be doing well, fingers crossed!
