A Pet...of sorts...

I scooped up a praying mantis from the garage window... I figured we would sketch it for our nature notebooks... Next thing we know, the boys are on the dining room table... Watching it eat the beetles and crickets they caught for it... "Look, Eliza!! It's eating the HEAD!!"... I never knew that Eli was squeamish (very satisfied grin)... A Sissy-Girl after all... To add to the "how funny this is" ...Max's ears are very red and swollen from gnat bites... and he's running around having people spell "beetles" and "crickets" for his list...A writer in the making... He just needed something exciting enough to share!!