Join me in the Gross Out, Freak Out!

This is a post that I had saved from about a month ago that I must have forgotten to post...

One thing I am learning living in the mountains, is that insects are a bit larger and scarier than in Shelbyville.

We walk in one night to lay Nicholas in bed and I see this enormous spider! ON HIS BED!!!! AHHHH!! :/ Of course I yell for Dan, however he is outside on the phone unable to help at the moment. So Zachary, my little warrior begins to plan out how we're going to get rid of this hideous thing. "First", he says as he takes off a shoe, "We can quietly sneak up on it," as he tiptoes up near it, "Then WHAM! We kill it with the shoe." He finishes by saying, "Don't worry mom, I know you don't like spiders, so I can get for you." Awe, my baby!!! He is so sweet!

As heroic as he was, I wouldn't let him near this thing.

We wait patiently for Dan to come in, about 10 minutes later. As Dan nears it, he begins cracking up in laughter.

It's a Grasshopper!!! Look at the picture upside down. Can you see it?

The next day Nicholas and I are having lunch at the kitchen table, when he begins to point up saying, "Spider Man, Spider Man!" I look up and see this...

Of course Dan is in class until 1, so we patiently await his arrival to get rid of this hideous huge mosquito for us!

In case you haven't figured out yet.... I don't do bugs!!