WARNING: Those of you who know me personally will be quite shocked by this post. LOL!!! It appears that homeschooling will cure arachnophobia, ophidiophobia, and insectophobia! Who knew??
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| Okay…this is living on our front porch, and I have not killed it. This is quite unusual for me since I am not known for being a fan of things that are creepy-crawly! |
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| Whew! Is he creepy or what? |
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| Sister was trying to get a dead moth to stick to the enormous spider web so that she could, “Watch him eat it!” I’m sorry to say that it did not work…. |
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AND…. Yes, we now have a pet snake! AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
I know I’ve either lost my mind or have reached some sort of breakthrough! LOL |
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| He is a hog-nose snake and is very “harmless”, so I am told. |
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| His name is Chester and he lives in a little cage…. with a lid….. on our porch…. OUTSIDE (for now)! |
Since we had a live specimen on hand, I thought we’d do some nature journaling for science.
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| Brother’s page. |
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| Sister’s page. |
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| Mom’s page (yes, I decided to start my own journal to help encourage the kids and set a good example….actually I love doing it! It’s really fun.) |
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| While we were outside drawing Chester the snake this praying mantis was watching us from above. |
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| Also creepy….but very interesting. They can turn their heads! It is very cool… in a weird sort of way. |
Conner Academy
Hehe! Spiders, insects, and spiders! Oh my! You’re a brave Mom!
2BoysMama
You are definitely braver than I am, I couldn’t not have a snake anywhere near the house although my children would love it. Looks fun though.
Amanda
Lots of creepy things…just in time for Halloween, I guess 🙂
Oh, and since it will be rather cold tonight, we now have the snake INSIDE the house Ahhhhh!!!! LOL!!
Melissa
I am so into insects, bugs, spiders, etc. The preying mantis has me jealous, I’ve never seen one around our home (at least not any huge green ones – we have some insects that I think are some form of mantis).
Cool snake.