Frog Blog 4 - The Final Chapter!

The frogs are gone. What a fun journey it was to have them in our home. I decided last weekend that we would have to get rid of the frogs soon or they would all die of starvation. We just couldn't keep up with their eating. We found that at Petco they sold flightless fruit flies. So we had bought some of those, but with 25 little hungry frogs, they just don't last long. We decided that we could head straight out to the cabin after school on Wednesday, because it was early release and the kids got out of school at 1:35. Brandon could not take off of work, so I asked my friend April if she and her two children would like to come with. She said yes, despite the fact that rain was predicted. Well, for the first time in a long time, the weatherman was dead on. Rain, it did. Lots! So here we are, out at the river; mud, rocks and baby frogs everywhere that we stepped. Anna was trying to catch them all and put them in the grass to be safe. Abby, who is almost 3, just wanted to "hold" them. Well, baby frogs are really fragile. It's a good thing that frogs lay a lot of eggs, since there are predators as loving as three year olds around. We found out that Abby has the same misconception as Anna does about rain boots. They are not for collecting water in, but rather keeping it out. After hiding under the shelter of the trees for a little while, the rain let up enough for us to find a good spot for our frogs. One of our frogs became especially large, so we were able to name him. Anna had named the first tadpole out of the water, Nemo. Since this one was the biggest, it had to have been the first, so it must have been Nemo. ( She's pretty good at reasoning. ) We were able to name one other frog, as he looked a little different from the others. His name was Cyclops. Yep, poor guys only had one eye, although it was not in the middle of his head. After the frogs were all out of the jar, we headed back up to the cabin to make S'mores, in the oven. The kids ran around and played, then we headed back home. Such a wonderful experience.

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