A few weeks ago we discovered rolly pollies in our front yard. I don't know what I was thinking when I told Scarlett that they tickled when they walked on your hand because that was the start of the rolly polly craze. She became obsessed with picking them up every time we went outside and well, since she discovered rolly pollies, we were outside A LOT!
There was a Dora episode where she used a magnifying glass to look at the bugs and before long we had a magnifying glass for her to check out the rolly pollies and the ants and any other bug that we might have come across.
I have since had pest control come by and spray our yards for ants because we had tons of them and I know it was because of all the rolly pollies living in our yard. I guess I didn't realize that it would also kill off the rolly pollies. Scarlett now searches hard to find at least one rolly polly, but to no avail. One day as we were outside a bird was in the yard and she saw him eat something and I told her the bird ate the rolly polly. What was I thinking? She was immediately upset and started to cry because the bird ate the rolly polly (which I know it did). As any great mother would do, I tried to convince her that the bird did not eat the rolly polly and that it ate an ant just to calm her down.
I know, I know. Crazy. I have since discovered that we can go the park and play with the rolly pollies there and she's happy. Good grief!
Video at end - compliments of "Aunt Shell" aka Michelle. Not only was Scarlett excited about the rolly pollies, but the ants, too. Even I make a debut in the video.
