Every notice how pretty much everybody loves Lady Bugs? We pick them up, we let them crawl all over us, we take pictures of them … Heck, we even make jewelry designed in their image. But man, let some people spot a cockroach, or even one of those rhino beetles; you know the ones with the big horns; and they about have a heart attack. What makes Lady Bugs so much better?

Even with little kids, there are certain bugs that just universally “good”. I know kids that are correctly scared of spiders, bees, and yes even the dreaded cockroach. But, introduce those same kids to a “rolly polly” and they’ll sit and play with the thing for an hour.

Even when I was here last time, we all briefed in advance about the dreaded “camel spider“; which, upon closer examination wasn’t really all that scary. It kind of reminded me of a beetle, with 4 pretty sharp pinchers on it’s front jaws. Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t go around trying to pick one up and play with it … but at the same time, I never quite understood why people get so freaked out either.

Last, but not least, my favorite example of how we treat specific types of bugs in different ways …

Everybody Hates flies. They’re dirty, noisy, and just plain annoying (side note: the flies over here in Iraq are just down right “rude”. They don’t just buzz around your head, they think nothing of landing right on your nose, eyes or even mouth). Okay, back to the story.

But, make them a little bit colorful, extend the tail, make the wings bigger, and suddenly you have a “Dragon” Fly … which just like the lady bug, almost everybody seems to love.

Happy Thursday!

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Well, I had one of those moments the other day …

My step-son Johnathan brought one of his friends in the house, and for some reason their first stop is always over at the crib to look at his new little sister Jaiden.

As they walked away from the crib, they asked “how come whenever they come in the house, she’s never awake?”

Well, me wanting to be the knowledgeable and informative dad, proceed to tell them …

“She’s only a couple of days old, pretty much all she does is eat poop and sleep.”

Now, I’m pretty sure Jeff wasn’t serious, but his timing sure was pretty good. He immediately scrunched up his face, looked straight at me, and in a dead serious tone of voice said …

“Ewwww … she eats poop????”

lol, ugh, kids.

So that was my lesson in punctuation. From now on, I know that when describing a typical day for my 5 day old daughter, I will be sure to clearly states that she Eats (comma) Poops & Sleeps.

Keep havin FuN!
Todd

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It’s going to be a girl !!!

Her name will be Jayden Taylor Morris.

Here are some of her first pictures:

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