Carter was super happy yesterday. His Uncle Tom called him in the afternoon to let him know he'd be stopping by later in the day to drop off the Stag Beetle he'd found on his front porch all the way in Sugar Tit, KY that morning. He didn't know it was a Stag Beetle, Carter and I did some research later on google and that's what we determined the bug was.
Tom told Carter he had to take Grandpa to his sailing club first. After hanging up the phone, Carter had a fit - I hate Grandpa's boats and I HATE SAILING!!! He informed me that we could not go to the pool or anywhere else until the bug was delivered.
Lucky for us, Tom must have realized the torture he was putting a four year old boy through as not 20 minutes after he called, the door bell rang and it was the bug delivery man himself. Carter was over the top excited and bug was truly horrendous looking! It was HUGE - it's about as big as an adult's thumb.
When it arrived, it was very much alive. It eats rotten fruit, so after we put it in the bug habitat we have, we went to the pool, came home and fed it some mango and cantelope. It looked dead then, but we didn't say anything.
Well, first thing this morning, Carter rushed out onto the deck (You didn't think I'd let it in the house, did you??). He came back sobbing his little heart out that the bug was dead. After some cuddles and empathy from me, we decided that it was still a cool bug and something to definitely bring to camp today to show his friends.
He wanted to make sure that everyone knew it was dead and wouldn't hurt them, so he got out a label and wrote "Won't Pinch" on it. He did it all by himself - "I'm a big boy, Mom, I can write this myself!" (well, I had to help him with the spelling - but woo hoo!!! As he'll rarely write anything for me much less on his own initiative, I had to post it here:
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