Frogs and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails....

...that's what little boys are made of.

Okay, so we don't have frogs or a puppy, but we have a little boy and we have snails! Cade is all boy now and loves to be "side!" as he calls outside. It has been raining and raining and raining in Budapest. I think it has rained at some point every day of the two and half weeks that we have been back. The rain brings out the snails. Budapest has snails like I have never seen. They are all different colors and giant. One day, we found one the size of a golf ball. No exaggeration. I felt like I should take it to the zoo or something! Anyway, a snail hunt is a good post rain activity, and not just for the boy! You can be decked out in pink and hunt for snails, you know!

        Big sis leads the way                                                

                                                                            Success!

                            Cade has a good eye for snails...he gets so excited and yells, "nail, nail!"

                              A few of the friends in our bucket....we ended up with about 20.
When they were finished, Chelsea took them out one by one and placed them back into the bushes.

Snails don't gross me out and I was fine with them being collected. But, we also stumbled upon these guys in the yard.  Today was the first day I have seen them....what are they? Slugs? They were everywhere..seriously gave me the heebie jeebies! They are gross!!!

I love having a yard (or garden as Europeans refer to it) for the kids to play in. We have so many plants and trees and bushes and little creatures. It is a great way to talk with the kids about all the things that God made, and that He said they were all good.  Even the slugs!