Bugs

The other night, when Rex was working late, Ian all the sudden started saying, "I touch it." This means there is a bug and he wants to touch it. He has yet to touch a bug when he says it though. I look over. He is on the couch. At first I didn't see a bug, just some grass or something. But I looked closer and it was not a piece of grass but a praying mantis, just sitting on the back of our couch. So I got a cup. I was planning on trapping the mantis inside and taking it outside. But the mantis wouldn't go inside the cup, so he sat on the outside while we took it outside.

Ian loves to looking at bugs and "touch" them. Most of the time he gets close to touching them and then backs away.

This weekend we were at my parents' house. We were playing outside, when I found a spider on the house. I looked closer because it was big and black. Sure enough, it was a black widow. I told Ian not to touch it and went and got Rex. I told Ian it could bite and hurt. So he said "Hurt" and proceeded to move his truck away from it (which it wasn't that close to). We watched Rex take care of it, which he ended up smashing. So Ian stood by for a few minutes saying "Smashed, ewww." That was very interesting apparently. I eventually distracted him from the spider.