Our little Bella is an extreme girly girl, I mean princess dresses and tiaras galore, but she can definitely hang with the boys. She loves to dig in the dirt, play with hot wheels and of course play with, look at, and analyze insects and bugs. Our big project this past spring was to create an organic garden in our backyard, which we did, but all of those fun little insects that our sweet Bella loves so much eat our beautiful and tasty veggies. Really it's just the roly-poly's that are feasting on our goods. But our sweet girl has somewhere along the line decided not to call it a roly-poly but instead a holy-poly. This makes it incredibly hard to get rid of the little creepy crawlers since Bella has dubbed them holy. Oh my child! So we are constantly out in the garden pulling them off our veggies and trying organic remedies to help them to steer clear of our garden. All because our little princess loves her some holy-polies.
She loves insects so much that for Christmas last year her grandma bought her a butterfly and ladybug set. So this summer we thought it was the best time to send away for the butterfly and ladybug larvae. We got the creepy caterpillars and ladybug larvae and Bella watched them in pure fascination for over a week as they turned from ugly little wriggly creatures into beautiful and vibrantly colored butterflies and ladybugs. Once her butterflies emerged from their "kackoon" as Bella called it, we released them. Here are some shots of Bella releasing her precious little insects.
Scooby always has to be in on the action.
So now anytime we see a ladybug or butterfly, no matter where we are, Bella always asks, "Is that my ladybug?" or "Is that my butterfly?" Oh how I wish I could bottle up her little girl cuteness.
