Hermit crab

Megan has been somewhat fascinated with hermit crabs ever since her 2nd grade teacher had them in her classroom. So, Megan decided she wanted to buy a hermit crab. I told her sure, not thinking she was really serious. But after explaining how much it would cost to buy a cage, and sand, and all that, she still wanted to, and what do you know, she actually has tons of money. So she could afford it. Well I couldn't go back on my word. So Megan bought a hermit crab.
She paid for everything--including a book about how to take care of it--with her own money.
I'm so proud of her. She is very responsible and will do a good job taking care of it. Sadly, we've determined that it's molting right now. It has burroughed down where you can't see it. It will probably stay like that for 3 weeks. That is a bummer. Anyway, it's a tiny little one and Megan named it Bubbles. When it is done molting it will need a new shell so we had to go buy an assortment of shells for it to try on when it gets done. We'll put pictures of it up next week.
Hermit crabs are cute when they have shells on them. When they don't have shells they look like a cross between a cockroach and a slug. It's a little creepy.

Washing Dishes

What's up Colonel Sanders?

Shark goes to church

Corey dressed up his shark for church--of course the shark did not come with us.

Singing in the Rain

It rained really hard for a long time when hurricane Hannah passed by us. Corey and the neighbor girl stayed out there for hours--literally. It was really fun. Unfortunately our basement got some water in it. But everything is cleaned and dry now.

Our Pet Spiders

These are the two pet spiders we had for about 2 weeks. The first one is named Prince Charming because he was the bigger one. He had a very cool looking web. He would hang smack dabb in the middle of his web waiting for food. Then sometimes he would hide down on a bag of soil at the bottom. That's my finger next to him so you can see how big he is. The last picture is Cinderella. She hung just outside our kitchen window so we watched her alot. (Had she been on the inside we would have squashed her--actually, no, she was too big-- she would have left a gooey mess. So I don't know what we would have done.) Anyway, we watched her catch lots of bugs and suck them dead. It was a little eery. But it was cool. My finger in that picture is about 3 inches closer to the camera than the spider because I'm on the opposite side of the window. So she was a little bigger than she looks. Sadly, they both dissappeared last week and left their webs abandoned. Oh well. We thought they were pretty cool.