The worms...

this week the girls and i had some fun digging in the backyard for worms. somehow they got the idea that they needed a pet and a worm would do the job! luckily, it didn't take me too long to find a couple of juicy fat ones. raegan quickly named her's harold (12 dancing princesses) and sarah's became dora. they spent the afternoon playing with them and taking their worms on rides in the stroller. it was a ver eventful afternoon. the girls were way too chicken to actually touch their new little pets, but i told them that if they wanted to keep them, they needed to learn how to hold them. probably not the best idea on my part! by this point, raegan's worm had become tom'n ("like tom'n jerry, mom"). poor little tom'n and dora unfortunately suffered tragic deaths at the hands of their very loving owners. while sarah was on the phone telling her daddy all about her new pet, i realized that she was squishing and rolling him between her fingers! the funny part was that she had no idea that it had done him any harm and so she continued to push that little mass of 'once-worm' all over the house in her stroller!