{ Catch Of The Day }

Jake and Drew love playing outside. They would play outside all day long if I would let them. Most of the time they're jumping on the trampoline, riding trikes and scooters or bug catching. So, today when I heard them run in the house screaming their heads off trying to find me, saying that they had to show me something "RIGHT NOW!!!" I wasn't at all surprised. But when I stepped outside and saw THIS right under my feet I was surprised!

A Lizard! What were they thinking!?! Can we just say SICK!!! I was pretty much revolted and jumped back from it because it was moving and I could just picture it escaping from their capture and crawling towards me...EWWWW!!! I'm a wimp if you can't tell. The boys were a little surprised by my reaction. I usually don't react too much because normally it's any kind of little bugs or frogs, which don't phase me. We've even had the frogs go with us on our morning walks in the bug catchers because the boys refuse to leave them behind, but this was too much for me. They stopped smiling after my reaction and said "Does it bite?" I said "No, it's just disgusting!" They smiled again and got all excited and said "I know! We caught him!" AHHH!!! Boys, sometimes I just can't relate. So, Kaylee and I went back inside the house and tried to stay away from their excitement (after I got my pictures).

I'm sad to say that the story didn't end so good. About 15 minutes later they came inside, sad and freaking out because "blah, blah, blah". I couldn't understand a word they were saying, so I went outside to check things out and where the bug catcher used to be was now only a tail. Disgusting, I know. I feel so morbid even blogging about this, but this is part of the things that go on in our day. As you can probably imagine, they had been playing with the lizard under the catcher, moving it around and the lizard was fast and got out from under it and then "bam" the boys slammed the catcher down and got it's tail. I guess the lizard escaped into our garage (great). I told them it was o.k. the lizard wasn't going to die. That made them feel better, but that tail...gross! I don't know if it's still there. I haven't been out since. I'm secretly hoping Casey just took care of it for us when he got home. :)