"Cat-a-per!!"

Yes, that's caterpillar for all of you out there that don't have a 2 year old. While we were playing outside yesterday, Audrey found a caterpillar on one of their toys. I wasn't looking at her, but just heard her say "wow cat-a-per"! She was a little scared of it at first and quickly put the toy down but after seeing Andrew hold it, I guess she decided that it couldn't be that scary (if Andrew was doing it!!). I ran to get the camera and Andrew found another one. I tried to get a picture of them both looking at the camera, but there was no way Audrey would take her eyes off of it while it was crawling around on her arm. They both loved holding them. I was surprised by how gentle Audrey was and was expecting at any moment for it to get squashed, but she seemed to get the idea that you have to be really careful. And I'm always surprised when Andrew is willing to let any bug crawl around on him after seeing the way he acts around flys and spiders. Although, I can't really talk. I HATE bugs and am always really freaked out by them. I do remember running out of my parents living room screaming one day, after a pest control company commercial came on it looked like a roach was crawling on the tv screen. To be totally honest, I couldn't even stand to hold the caterpillars and had to use a stick to get the poor little guys off of the ground and into the kids hands. So I guess I know where Andrew gets it from. Andrew found his bug catcher and put them in it for the afternoon. Hopefully they weren't took shaken up when he released them a couple hours later.