Beetles and butterfly eggs

The weather has been fantastic (well a little rain would be good for the garden) and we've been having a blast outside. Oh the weekend we went to the open house at the public works yard, third year in a row we've been and it gets better every year. Yesterday when at the park with friends the soccer field sprinklers can come...oh my what fun! The kids entertained themselves for what felt like forever, i guess there's nothing like running around the park in your underwear. We've also been taking our art outside and Isobel thinks its hilarious she can carry her paint brush around the yard. I think we might have a budding graffiti artist on our hands :)

We've been patiently waiting and watching for our swallow tail eggs for the last few weeks. And Wesley finally found one on the dill yesterday!! we were both pretty excited. So we'll be watching and waiting for our little caterpillars to hatch.

Someone forgot to put their banana in the compost last night (won't name any names). So this morning when i came downstairs and picked it up off the floor a little black beetle hopped off of it. While we were checking it out we discovered it was like the click beetle in the Eric Carle book. If we put him on his back he'd hop about two inches in the air and land on his feet. The kids thought it was hilarious. We later put him in a can, took him for a walk to playgroup and set him free on the 'thrumpcap' ( by a tree) on the walk home.