New pets

We've had a few new pets join our family lately. The girls have been enjoying their bug catching. E has gotten into and decided she would like to have her own collection, too.
However one of the girls found a preying mantis near our house and it was instantly adopted by E who named it "Beauty" and has been very diligent about catching flies to feed it. She is looking forward to it growing so she can add it to her bug collection.

Obviously Mg has no fears! The praying mantis climbed all over the gigling girls!
And E had to take her new pet on a ride (it's in a box with a white lid on the back of our neighbors tricycle!)
Later we found a second, much larger praying mantis which E is also feeding that will go into M's bug collection (who would have thought that with me having 4 girls I would be doing all of this!!!). Oh well, it's fun and we've enjoyed the summer project! Little A is growing up so fast! She loves to walk behind this little car but she really loves to get a ride on it from her big sister (who is such a fantastic big sister!!!)

A few days ago some friends came over for dinner - they are both excited and knowledgable about the entomology world so they brought her collection over and enjoyed our girls collection and we had a fun nature hike together, where we got our 3rd newest pet - a nice black beetle. I'm assured he won't bite, stink or anything else so M is taking great care of "Crawly" as he was named and is later excited to add it to her collection. Mg walks everywhere outside with it and gives it rides on her scooter and such. What a life!