Roly-Poly invasion

We moved to our home here in Virginia mid July and finally decided to cut the grass. It was a major jungle out there in our tiny backyard. Since we left our mower at our house in Georgia (with the hopes that our tenants would keep up with the yard) we had to borrow one from a nice neighbor. Problem was it didn't have a bag and so we had to rake and pick up the piles and piles of months of uncut grass. While Aaron mowed the bugs ran for their lives. We did not realize just how many roly-poly's were living in that jungle. They came by the hundreds onto our concrete patio. Our kids went to collecting. They loved it since they really haven't ever seen many of them before. They tried to see how many they could collect. There were so many that you couldn't hardly step without stepping on one and once an area was cleared and all the the rolies put in a bowl more would come.



Jonas thought it was the coolest thing ever that they turned into a ball.



Noah was happy to point to the bugs until someone came to collect. He did NOT want to touch one.




The whole thing was gross.

Aaron then thought it would be funny to put some black sprinkles into Noah's bottle and tell the kids they were some of the roly poly's. It was pretty bad. Emma kept saying "but they have a family!" and turns out they didn't find it funny at all. Don't worry once the kids had their fun all the Roly Poly"s were set free.