The boys & I were playing in the garden the other day when we suddenly spotted Mr Frog watching us from the corner by the paddling pool! We have no idea where he might have come from as none of our neighbours has a pond. It was nice of him to hop by & say hello.
As I mentioned a while ago, the boys are snail mad! And there are plenty to be found on a wet walk home from school. It takes over an hour to walk home sometimes with so many snails to inspect!! We stood outside a house so long looking at the snails one day that the owner of the house came out to see if we were OK!!!
There are so many different varieties of snails too. Stripy ones, yellow ones, orange ones, old ones, common ones, baby ones....
Timmy & Luke had been learning all about snails in nursery school as they had found some snails eggs in the nursery garden. It really grabbed their interest & they have talked about snails a lot! Timmy said to me today, 'Mummy did you know that snails lay eggs out of their shells?' He also informed me that slugs are his favourite animal....
I can't say that I share his love of the slug but I do love this baby snail that Luke is holding! It's sweet! I like that it's tiny body is translucent & you can see it's eye stalks moving in & out! Hee hee!!
This is a slightly bigger snail that Timmy is holding. It's shell was all wobbly!
Well, that concludes my little post about frogs & snails! I am in the middle of making a chocolate wedding cake tonight so perhaps my next post will be entitled 'sugar & spice' who knows! Hope you are all well! ;o)
The boys & I were playing in the garden the other day when we suddenly spotted Mr Frog watching us from the corner by the paddling pool! We have no idea where he might have come from as none of our neighbours has a pond. It was nice of him to hop by & say hello.
As I mentioned a while ago, the boys are snail mad! And there are plenty to be found on a wet walk home from school. It takes over an hour to walk home sometimes with so many snails to inspect!! We stood outside a house so long looking at the snails one day that the owner of the house came out to see if we were OK!!!
There are so many different varieties of snails too. Stripy ones, yellow ones, orange ones, old ones, common ones, baby ones....
Timmy & Luke had been learning all about snails in nursery school as they had found some snails eggs in the nursery garden. It really grabbed their interest & they have talked about snails a lot! Timmy said to me today, 'Mummy did you know that snails lay eggs out of their shells?' He also informed me that slugs are his favourite animal....
I can't say that I share his love of the slug but I do love this baby snail that Luke is holding! It's sweet! I like that it's tiny body is translucent & you can see it's eye stalks moving in & out! Hee hee!!
This is a slightly bigger snail that Timmy is holding. It's shell was all wobbly! 
Well, that concludes my little post about frogs & snails! I am in the middle of making a chocolate wedding cake tonight so perhaps my next post will be entitled 'sugar & spice' who knows! Hope you are all well! ;o) 
2 comments:
I just love the close ups of the snails and frog! They are so clear! Brilliant camera-man-ship!! Amazing too what kids notice that us adults would just walk past and miss eh? xxx p.s look forward to seeing how the bugs from the sculpture trail we all went on came out!!
We're really glad the boys love wildlife so much!
Mum and Dad xx
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