Wiggles

One night we are outside and for some reason the kids were already in their pajamas (I can’t remember why) and Mallory started running and chasing moths and catching them.  She caught a white paper thin one and begged to keep it!  I thought it was really cute and said okay and got a jar and then I begged Jesse to pound holes in the lid for her.  He goes out to the garage to pound holes and comes back with a huge massive moth!  Which was just fantastic in Mallory’s eyes.

Here she is with her moth the first night.

The next day she ran and got her moth and she picked up the jar and it wiggled its head back and forth at her.  She thought it was fantastic!  She showed me and it did it again.  So she called him Wiggles.

She took Wiggles everywhere with her.  Outside he came with us to play.

They picked fresh grass and dropped it down the holes.  They even dripped water down the holes for Wiggles.

Pretty soon wiggles jar started to steam up and I had to have her take him back inside.  Wiggles wasn’t a fan of the sun.

Such a pretty girl she is!

Day 3… Max babysat wiggles while she was at school.

Mallory came home from school and immediately went to check on Wiggles.  Wiggles wasn’t looking so good.  He hadn’t moved in a long time.

The deal was when we let her keep Wiggles was that she had to let Wiggles go on Thursday night because we were going camping on Friday and who was going to take care of Wiggles while she was camping.  (There was no offer of bringing Wiggles with us in the camper.) 

She did have tears when she had to let him go – but she did it!!  Such a brave big girl!

I thought for sure that she would chase down another moth and want to keep it, but she hasn’t… yet!