Don't Worry Grandma...

I think that Cole is my bug boy...
If there is a bug within a block he will find it, collect it, and find a home for it.
This is his newest find.
Yes folks these are grasshoppers.

He found them in the field at home in Kiowa.
We have had a rainy summer. I"m wonderin if this is why they are soo big.
Lots of grass to eat.
Toby likes them, "bug, bug...," he points and giggles.
I don't mind grasshoppers to much as long as I don't have to touch them or they don't touch me. Not my favorite, but today we went to grandma Debbie's and I think that she likes them even less than me.

Cole promptly brought the cage in takes one of them out, and begins to swing the green specimen by one leg above the table and all the food. (really good food, I might add)

"Look what I found, isn't he big?"
Grandma Debbie starts to scream, "Get him out of here, out of here now..."
Cole swings him a couple more times for good measure.
"Don't worry he won't hurt you, grandma."

The three grasshoppers spent the remainder of the afternoon outside on the deck until it began to rain.
I watched Cole sneak the bugs in the house and take them up to Grandma Debbie"s bedroom.

"You will be safe up here and get dry," he tells the bugs walking up the stairs.

Toby kept telling Debbie...
"Bugs, bugs" as he pointed up the stairs.
"No Toby the bugs are outside," Grandma patiently told him.

Until she went upstairs and tripped over the box.

"COLE!!!"

"What's the matter Grandma?"

"Bug, Bug.Bug..." Toby continued.

I love my bug boy...