Chloe has gotten all of my kids obsessed with lady bugs. She spends her entire recess time at school hunting and collecting them. Which also means she comes home with dirt in all her crevices and a lunch pail full of ziploc bag lady bug houses. Throwing away sandwich baggies full of dirt, grass, pebbles, and dead lady bugs has become part of my daily routine. When Chloe got in trouble at school for collecting the insects we figured we needed to do something about it. She got into trouble because there came a day when her mom didn't give her any ziploc bags in her lunch. Ha ha. Outsmarted her I thought. Nope, Chloe still collected the bugs. She stuffed them up her jacket arms to keep them safe. Too bad it was a hot day and when she walked into class she just had to take off her jacket. Out flew about 20 lady bugs. This made the kids go wild I bet. Oops.
Doug and I both remembered a couple years ago while hiking up Ice House Canyon we saw literally thousands of lady bugs. We thought it must have been this time of year. So we planned a family trip. One day after school we went to Ice House Canyon to hunt lady bugs that we could keep alive. We persuaded Chloe top quit collecting them at school since they were dead by the time she got home anyway. We let her know we'd get her ones that would stay alive in her room (for a few days--oh, we may have forgotten to tell her the "few days" part). Doug made a nice lady bug home in a water bottle. It had air holes, dirt, grass, and a few pebbles. Chloe was happy with it.
Hiking up Ice House Canyon was super fun. The kids felt so adventurous and free. We ended up not seeing thousands of lady bugs but we did find about 20 to keep. Preston had his Davey Crockett hat on and he and Derek took turns wearing it. Two boys with a coon hat equals one big imaginative play period. 
I loved seeing their little imaginations go wild. Running and jumping around in the woods is the best for little boys.
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