Bugs & Slugs

She loves animals. 

But since we don't live in the rainforest, the jungle, a farm or even near a zoo, 

she settles on the bugs, frogs, and worms in our yard. 

 She loves to hold them, talk to them, make elaborate homes for them, and then let them go.

She is cautious around new ones but interested in all of them.

She can catch frogs and butterflies faster than anyone I know.

She can find roly polys under rocks wherever we go.

And she treats them all like they are a warm, fuzzy, kitten.

I have watched Lillianna pass this love along to her cousins and friends.

But her greatest impact has been on her little sister.

Just this week Ellenie sobbed and sobbed when her friend stepped on her new pet, a Daddy Long Legs spider she had been loving on for 10 minutes.

I love this about my girly girl.

My little big girl who insists on wearing a dress each day will get that dress so dirty just to find one worm.

I wonder where this love will take her.