Nature

Julia was sick over the weekend but we had a few fun things happen. One day Andy went outside and found a cicada hanging upside down in a shoe of his, coming out of it's shell. Very cool.

Monday he took Brendan to the garden and they found a baby paint turtle in the lake. They brought it home to show Julia and me and then took it back to the lake to be with it's mother. Since the kids wanted to keep it.

Finally, Brendan declared that he has a baby and that it's named "Taste." Taste turned out to be in the form of a seltzer bottle that was in our recycling bin. Unlike Julia when she was "pregnant" and taking such good care of her babies, Brendan ran around with Taste, banging Taste against the ground, the flagstone on the patio, anything really and yelling "TASTE!!!"