Oh The BUGS!

{the largest cricket I have ever seen}

When sending Scoobs out to play, it is not uncommon for my last words to be -- 'No catching crickets!'
Why?  Because it's gross.
But I quickly learned to broaden my scope -- after saying no crickets he promptly brought me a cockroach & suddenly crickets looked dreamy.

These are the bugs & birds {yes birds} he has managed to 'catch' in the last week.
Yes, one week has yielded all these specimen:


The caterpillar...


which I now think turns into this 'leaf bug'
Guess Horton wasn't lying about these guys


Unfortunately the catching of this 'leaf bug' left him down 1 leg.
He caught him in our garage after soccer practice & I have to say the thing was a leaping leaf bug & scared the dickens out of me.  Not Scoobs.  He was on it in a flash.  But without that leaping leg, he only lasted until the next morning & was dead by lunch time.  Heartbreak hotel.

And...the bird.  I have no idea how this came about, but it is gross.

He is also my chief black widow spotter.  He knows just what they look like & to NOT TOUCH.  Thank heavens.  Last week he found one under their slide complete with a web & egg sac.  Can you tell we haven't been outside in months?  I didn't see it at first & just thought he was messing with me.  He promptly took his chubby little hands on each side of my head & got it positioned just right so I could see the little fella for myself.

Needless to say, the bug guy was here asap.

And somehow Scoobs was at a friends when all the spraying went down. He came home to dead crickets in front of the door & promptly asked if the bug man had come.  Upon learning he had missed him, he fell to a fit on the floor.

Maybe we have found his future career.