Do you remember when grape koolaid was like gold in our home? This has been the first week since the grape koolaid started flowing that any of us have actually felt better. So last Thursday I decided that I needed medical intervention and went to the drs. While attempting to rest, the boys decided that their "stuffed friends" were sick too and needed to rest. Too cute!!!

So after thinking of how cute my boys were being, I came out to the kitchen to make more grape koolaid. Imagine my surprise when I looked into my sink of soapy water and found this "friend" just lounging on the cheese slicer.  Yes, it's a lizard - a brown one. So visualize the scene with me ~ I'm sick and in desperate need of grape koolaid. And now I have a lizard deciding to take a relaxing bubble bath in my sink, in my house. Did I mention I was sick yet? So I call my mother-in-law - Science Professor Mama Jean. She says that the boys need to be "men" and help their momma. Well I do agree. But can you imagine the chaos if they attempted to get the lizard and well, didn't get it outside but dropped it inside the house? Did I mention I was sick and in need of grape koolaid?

So as I am on the phone with Professor Mama Jean, I look over at our beautiful caterpillars. Um, what did I see, while I am sick and in need of grape koolaid? We had an escapee!!!!  Oh no -- so now I am sick, need grape koolaid, have a bubble bathing cheese slicer lounging lizard in my soapy water and now I have an escaped caterpillar.  

So this Mama has had ENOUGH OF SCIENCE.  Science is meant to stay outside the house and OUTSIDE THE HOUSE IS WHERE IT'S GOING!!!!  So the little men to the rescue.  I give the catepillar jar to the boys with instructions on where to take it and LEAVE IT. And they did a great job!!!

Then I found some cheesecloth that has previously been used to cover the caterpillars jar -- apparently useless cheesecloth as one of them escaped!! I showed the bubble bathing cheese slicer lounging lizard to the boys. They were amazed and explained what I was going to do. I told them that when I get the lizard into the cup they needed to be very quick and take the cup, with said bubble bathing cheese slicer lounging lizard outside and as far away from the house as possible. It took me two tries, but I was able to pick up the bubble bathing cheese slicer lounging lizard and get him/her into the cup. The boys were great about taking the lizard into the yard. Then they watched the lizard scurry back towards the house. Ugh!!! 

So the moral of the story is -- keep SCIENCE outside!!!!

Now for today's science lesson. The gentleman that comes to do our lawn used the blower and apparently blew a grasshopper into a "writing spiders" web. When I actually looked at this spider, she is HUGE. I don't know that she really needed that grasshopper. Ya know what I mean?? LOL

And here we had to call on our "Science Professor" -- aka Mama Jean. We found these caterpillars in a huge azalea bush. Hency Mama Jean said they are Azalea Moth Caterpillars. The guy that does our yard is also a homeschool dad so he understands "doing science when you can'. He graciously cut two of the branches so I could bring two little guys/gals inside to watch. Hopefully they won't meet their demise while in our care. LOL

Caleb so desperately wants a butterfly to land on his finger. And he gets so very frustrated when they won't. This is a butterfly that was having fun entertaining us. Aren't God's creations beautiful?

Is that the Geico Gecko? Nope, that is just a little fella who has decided that he wants to be part of the family. However, I don't remember inviting him inside. I like them when they are OUTSIDE. Apparently he came in a few weeks ago -- okay, go ahead and gasp, I did. I saw him one morning on this same blind but lower. I knew it would be useless to attempt to catch him, but I did try. He ended up in the closet that is in our office where I also keep our "quiet-time activity" and curriculum cabinets. So I am rather cautious now when I open either cabinet. On Sunday before we left for a drive around town, I noticed our little Geice Gecko friend just chillin'. If he thinks we are going to be changing auto insurance just because he's here....he needs to think again. LOL  Doesn't he just look too cute??? Unfortunately, I can't tell you where he is right at this minute. I haven't seen him since he was on the blind. I know that Dixie Grits, aka the dog, hasn't eaten him as she hasn't gotten sick. But I also don't think she could catch him - hence our problem. I am just a little afraid -- okay down right scared at times, that I am going to have an unwelcomed visitor in my bedroom and bed. Ah the joys of God's creations....but they need to stay outside. LOL

And this is a moth, I assume, that decided to hang out by our back door. He was there one morning when I left for work. He was still there the next morning too. I actually wasn't sure he was alive, but then he left us. I am not sure that I've ever seen one that big before.