A Bug's Life 2

Calum insisted on looking for the bug again yesterday. He looked in the spot he had last seen it but it wasn't there. Our little guy is determined though so he kept looking. Persistence paid off because not 5 minutes later he found one.

He was so excited, pointing at it and saying "Bug! Bad Bug!" Why it was bad I'll never know. We watched it for a few minutes then I wanted to show him how it curled up when it felt threatened so we blew on it. It rolled around on the floor for awhile then just stayed curled up. I took pity on the poor thing as Calum was starting to poke at it so we put it outside.

Every five minutes we had to check to see if it had moved. After 20 minutes of it not moving I was worried that it was dead so we took it back inside and after 5 minutes of warming up it was moving again. Big mistake! Calum happily played with the bug again. I was using the video camera to record him when it happened. He had gotten up to pick up something then came and sat back in the general area the bug had been. He sat on that poor little bug. I'm sorry to say that the poor thing got squashed. Calum didn't realize so I just picked it up and said it wanted to go back outside and threw the little thing away.

I'm beginning to understand the parents that sneak out to buy new goldfish before the kids wake up and realize that their fish had died. I'm on the lookout for a bug. Preferably one that cannot be easily squashed.

Happy long weekend everyone. Dakota has a parade today for Air Cadets. Desiree is working but is happy because she gets paid for time and a half. I'm still trying to wrap up the database project for my Band. I've got a few documents left to code then edits to the database and my final draft on the manual. I hope to have it wrapped up by the end of the weekend. I'll actually be sorry to see it go. It's been a lot of fun. My next couple of weeks look to be busy as I really get into the research an my most recent project and try to finish some other things by the end of December.