Slugs & Puddles, Just Your Average Monday Morning

We had a pretty wet weekend here in San Antonio, and the forecast looked like it was supposed to be clear by this morning so I had tentatively planned on us going to the park this morning. But it was still really wet & dreary by the time we finished breakfast, so I decided to scrap our plans. Truthfully, I was kind of dreading another day cooped up in the house after we spent the majority of the weekend at home, but it turned out to be the BEST day! I let the girls throw on rain boots over their PJ's to go jump in puddles after we cleaned up breakfast, and as soon as we made it out the door we discovered these two little guys on our driveway!

As much as I detest bugs and gross creatures, our girls are really into them. They got bug jars from their BooBoo & Pop-Pop recently, and those bug jars get used ALL.THE.TIME. They also have a nature bag that they are constantly adding little treasures to.  Anywho, all of that to say, I try really hard not to impart my grossed out feelings on them and to let them decide for themselves what is gross & cool. ;)  And just to be clear, we have vastly different ideas about that, ha! After checking out the slugs, we finally made our way to the puddles!

After puddle-jumping, we came inside for dry clothes, a little Sofia the First, lunch, and then headed off to the library to check out books on slugs! Much to our surprise, there was quite the collection! We got a great non-fiction slug book that Shelby has already read at least three times cover to cover and the cutest fiction book titled Slugs in Love. If you have a kid who is into slugs or if you happen to see one soon, I'd highly recommend it! ;)  As you can imagine, there was quite a bit of slug conversation at our dinner table tonight. ;)  Shelby couldn't wait to tell Daddy all about them!

Even though I thought the slugs were pretty gross, I must admit that I learned quite a bit from our research today, and I certainly can't deny the fact that having two little girls who are equally into princesses & dressing up as they are into investigating slugs is pretty fun! :)