And summer begins...meet frogs!

Ok, so most of you know that I spent the first 3 days of our summer vacation in the hosptital. Not fun, I know! The girls had spent their days and nights here and there while I was in the hosptial, and once I was home they found it unbearable to be couped up in the house with me. Meaning my daughters bailed out on their sick mother....in exchange for playing all day with their little sisters.

Anyway...2 nights ago we drained our swimming pool (mostly). Last night...we are sitting in the living room, and hear this obnoxious noise coming from the backyard. It dawned on me that when we drain the pool, frogs tend to use it as a form of skydiving. I knew there was at least one frog out their, and possibly two. But is was too late and too dark to investigate the situation.

Well, upon the girls awakening this morning...they were out the door to see if the frogs were there. AND yes they were! There were 2 of them in the shallow end of the pool, and one near the deep end. S0 without thought both girls were in the pool picking them up. Saying things such as "aww mommy they are soo cute", and "oh mommy I love them", and "I wish we could keep them until they die" are just some of the things I heard as they were so deeply wrapped up in these nasty kritters. I have no idea where they get their bravery for picking up nasty, bumpy, cold, ugly, and smelly creatures....IT definately did NOT come from moi!!!

Below you will see some of the pictures I took of them during the whole fiasco! Soory the pics are not the best. I used my phone.

According to Madilyn...this is her frog and it is a girl!

According to Morgan...this is her frog and it is a boy...because it expands his throat.

Here the girls are holding them, right after they had found them in the shallow end of the pool.

The girls stayed outside for a while longer...and low and behold Morgan comes running the house screaming, "Mommy Mommy... we made the frogs a habitat! This is the habitat!

WHERE IS THE HABITAT???? In MY cooler!!! What in the name of all things Holy do they think they are doing???

So there they are...in my cooler! GRRR!

The poor frogs, scared to death...starving to death....probably suffocating....being held captive by my crazy children...IN MY COOLER!

This is the girl...I think!

As I was typing this blog...the children managed to get the 3rd frog out of the deep end. And not too long after that...the frog escaped from the cooler! They are convinced that there is another frog in the deep end of the pool drowning!

AAHHHHH....the joys of summer!