Lainey has a new obsession: roly-poly bugs. Walker likes them too but I'm too afraid that he'll eat one so I try to steer his attention elsewhere!
Things we have learned thus far about roly-poly bugs:
1. They often take "naps" while lying on their backs with their legs sticking straight up in the air. Lainey has only once referred to one as "dead" and it completely shocked me because I'm not sure we've ever talked about that. I asked her if the little curled-up, stiff, unmoving roly-poly that we found on the sidewalk was taking a nap, and she said, "No. He might be dead." Well, okay then.
2. We find them on the ground and sometimes they've "comed apart." (This applies to other bugs, too.)
3. Roly-polys can be most often be found on sidewalks, and you're most likely to find one mid-morning. Usually, if you wait till lunchtime, you'll be too late and you won't see any.
4. If you were to collect a bunch of them, say 10 or so, and place them in a nice bucket/container complete with some rocks and grass and weeds, it is not a guarantee that they will stay awake and play. They will most likely take naps. Eternal naps.
5. Just because you leave a roly-poly somewhere it doesn't mean he'll be there when you return in a few hours.
6. Roly-polys curl into little balls when they're scared.
7. They have names.
8. They enjoy being placed in the grass so that they can "be with their family."
My mom thinks it might be genetic. I was a big fan of roly-polys when I was a child.
Rose petals make great beds for roly-polys.
This small roly-poly had an unfortunate accident shortly after this picture was taken. One minute, Lainey is holding his little curled-up self in the palm of her hand. And the next minute, she is announcing that he "broke." Yes, Lainey broke him in half. Gross. We were sad and put him to rest in the grass and then decided to go inside and wash our hands. But not before we found another roly-poly and made another bed for him out of a rose petal. Where I'm sure he still is, even as we speak... :)
2 comments:
Nora has recently become fascinated with roly-polies too! Only she won't touch them. She makes me poke them, and then when they curl into a ball she says, "just like an armadillo!" Maybe L and N can go roly-poly hunting together sometime soon. :)
LOVE it!! Nathan's really enjoying them too!! :) Can't wait til he starts talking more to get a little more of a glimps into his little world and see what he thinks about things!! :) Lainey's hysterical! :)
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