A true love of nature...

So I tried to convince myself to get up last night and write this post. Since I was just laying there thinking about everything I had to say and how I wasnt going to fall asleep anytime soon I might as well put the time to good use. Then the worst thing that could possibly happen to you when you're having one of those "words spilling out of your mind" moments happened... I fell asleep, so quickly in fact that I had dreams about what I was thinking about writing. So... Now I have to try to remember all the details of the quirky and funny story I was wanting to tell you last night. Since we are living on a farm (Ben's dream home... it even has a pond on it) Ben has taken advantage of the rural landscape to show the kids some of the things they just dont get to see as much living in the city. One day he was taking the younger two out for one of their nature walks (Carolina, like her mother, prefers to stay inside) and there were grasshoppers everywhere. They were jumping around so much one of them actually landed on George's hand. They all held very still and got a real good look at it. Finally after they had seen and talked about this cool new bug Ben and George decided it was time to let it go. So George moved his little hand and the grasshopper jumped right off onto the ground. Well I guess Laney wasnt done looking at it quite yet and she ran over to the rock that Mr. Grasshopper had landed on and with all the force she could muster... stomped on him. Yep, thats right... she killed him. LOL Ben said "Laney you dont kill the grasshopper, you set it free." To which she replied "Nope, he's deaded." Then she proceed to run inside to tell me all about the deaded bug outside. "Guess what Mommy!!!! The bug is deaded! I smushed him! He jumped off Georgie and I and I killed him!!!" She was so excited that she had gotten the better of this poor little grasshopper. Not quite the true love of nature moment Ben had intended it to be, but a memorable moment none the less. God, thank you for my beautiful crazy little children...