Frog Blog

So, I have given in to peer pressure and decided to start a blog. I've tried before without success, but Brandon is out on a bike ride with all of the kids, so no one will accidentally turn the computer off this time! I've always thought that you had to be a pretty interesting person to be a blogger, but searching the web for examples, I have found you do not. So my first blog will be about our summer science experiment.

We went out to our family's cabin the first weekend in August. My sister and her family were with us, along with my mom and dad. We had such fun together. The kids especially enjoyed catching tadpoles! Then one little comment from my mom, "Why don't you take some home." Kristine and David (sis and BIL) have a pond in there backyard for the little guys to grow up in, so it'd be fine for them. But the cousins couldn't take some home without us keeping some as well. So into soda bottles the little buggers went for the long car ride home. Luckily we had a 10 gallon tank in the backyard used to kill...I mean, house bugs we found in the backyard. So I quickly emptied the poor dead bugs out into the garden and filled the tank with rocks and water, preparing the graves for these poor little tadpoles. We poured the tadpoles into the tank and said goodnight, praying one of the 35 would survive. The next morning the kids rushed out to see them and against all odds, none were dead. So I researched what they ate, started feeding them frozen lettuce and only one has died. The other night we were about to give them a new piece of lettuce when we notticed some of them had grown legs!

I have to admit that I was just as excited as the kids to see this. We have enjoyed feeding the tadpole their lettuce and fish food and can't wait to see what happens next. We're raising tadpoles! Am I the coolest mom or what? Don't answer that!
-Pam-