tomboy

[Guest]

I live in Louisiana, and for those of you who dont know - Louisiana has a major problem with roaches. Not just those little tiny harmless roaches, Im talking about the huge, nasty roaches that fly at you if you even look in their general direction.... To make sure that these nasty creatures dont find their way into my home, we have the house sprayed about 2x a month. Im a big wimp when it comes to bugs. I cant stand them, especially the roaches. They will make me run screaming like a baby. I said all that so that you could really understand how mortifying yesterday was for me... I was in the kitchen cleaning up after dinner and dd was in her room playing. She usually comes out EVERY 5 minutes or so just to ask me what Im doing or if she can have something. She also talks to herself routinely so if she doesnt come out I can usually tell what she's getting into by listening to her from the hallway. Anyway - I mustve been cleaning for about 20 minutes and I completley forgot that Liv was even there (horrible, I know). When I realized that I hadnt heard or seen her in a while, I tiptoed back to her room - ready to catch her in action. Much to my suprise, she was just playing with her dumptruck on the floor and singing. I started to walk back to the kitchen but I guess she had heard me and she came scooting her dumptruck down the hallway. (I shouldve suspected something b/c the last time she played with her dumptruck it was to transport her poor water-starved goldfish around in the back) Just as she rolled past me I noticed something moving in the back of the truck. Immediatley, I knew what it was but I wasnt sure how it got there. Yup - A roach. My first thought was to get the nasty roach away from my child, so I reached for the truck w/o drawing too much attention to it. Liv turned around and scowled at me. She asked me what I was doing and I told her. Then she proceeded to tell me about "lucy". My kid was not only playing with a roach but she had named it, fed it some scraps she had stuffed in her pocket from dinner, (yes she'd been playing w/"lucy" since wed gotten home hours before) and was getting upset with me for threating its life. I was sooo grossed out I didnt know what to do. Of course I told her the whole thing about bugs needing to live outside and blah blah just so I could get the thing out of my house. The worst thing is she calls them "cutie bugs"........ I wanted girls for a reason.....

[dwtegli]

Ah, Jennie, that is so cute. I have heard of bugs for pets, but that is a new one.

[BrandiJK]

That's a HUGE lesson in sex gender roles, eh? Not always what we expect.

I am petrified of spiders, a true phobia. When first dd was little, I used to have to do that "let's pretend we are not about to pee our pants, shall we?" routine. I'm much better then I once was, but even the toddler knows to go to dad for a spider problem, going to mom won't do any good LOL

My nephews adore bugs (a trait from their mama I might add) and love to bring me harvestors. I never knew too much about bugs before my sil came into my life bedise I didn't like them. Now I know those 'spiders' in my yard are not 'spiders' but insects who pretend to be spiders for safety (harvesters). And my nephews are sweet enough to bring them RIGHT INTO MY FACE to show me these things. And I know better then to act afraid, else those non-spider eight legged looking freaks would be tossed on me in a heart beat.

And I hate roaches too. We don't have the flying ones, and if we did I'd move LOL We get the big old field one though, big enough to make a clicking sound on metal when they scurry across it ::::EEEWWWWWW::::

Well...I guess you get to be informed about bugs too. LOL So, does Lucy have a cage now? My sil, I am sure, could tell you what to feed it to keep it alive and healthy for a good, long time.

[Jolene]

Ewww....I am so grossed out! I HATE bugs of any size, shape and specimen, not to mention the fact that this little baby inside of me is named LUCY!

LOL...I can't even imagine what I would do if I saw a roach, I remember we used to have them in Pennsylvania. I havn't seen them in years and years, although I call all brownish looking things roaches due to my lack of bug knowledge. My husband then says, its not a roach...it's a beetle or whatever it really is.

My kids totally take after me, if they see them they freak! What a bad influence I am.

[PamelaRose]

Heh - My girls have been carting around a Wooly Bear caterpiller they "rescued" outside. Poor thing--it was quite a production for me to convince them that caterpillers are OUTSIDE creatures.

[mandy]

Jennie,

I understand your dd! I used to collect woodlice. I would name each and every one and play 'teachers' with them - they were my class. Funny thing is that now I can't stand them. If one is in the house I get one of the children to pick it up and put it outside, as if they're helping me with a chore. I don't mention the fact that I'm too scaredy to pick them up now!

Mandy x

[Guest]

Jolene - I am the same way about bugs... Lucy is a very pretty name - but only for a baby!!lol
I dont know where dd gets it from. Im supposed to be going camping in a couple of weeks and Im scared to death of being out there in a tent with a bunch of bugs crawling around...eeeeww, makes me cringe....I got her another fish and im hoping that will be enough to keep her occupied for now. My fiance wants to buy her an ant farm... I told him that's fine but its staying at his house.

[Bethers]

That story was too funny. I am terrified of mice. In my last house I owned after I divorced my ex it was around Xmas time. Anyway, I was wrapping presents and by myself and all of a sudden i heard some scratching from the cabinet above the stove. I just froze unable to move as I just knew it. I knew exactly what it was. I was like oh nooooooo. (Of course all my friends had fun making a poem Twas the night before xmas and all through Beth's house there was a creature and it was a mouse) haha very funny I would say. Anyhow, I spent many a nights in bed with a broom, boots on and a long stocking cap on and kept dreaming mice were crawling on me. Ish ish ish. Thank god I moved from that house i can now get some sleep. hahaha

[Proudmama]

That is so funny . My 18 month old DS loves to play outside. He also loves to touch anything that moves. He tried to pick up some sort of spider (I hate spiders). I yelled and he laughed . I did have to laugh today because we were in the backyard and he touched a cob web. He started to shake is hands around in the air and tried to brush himself off. It was so funny. I just told him that he was not supposed to touch those and that was why .

[helen-l-a]

Ewwwwww Yuck!... still at least she didn't try to eat the blessed thing!.. My friends little girl has tried green catapillars, worms and just loves snails! but not sure if she actually ate one or just likes to play with them... so you see it could be much much worse!

I hate anything creepy crawly. When I was in Singapore we found a very large Cockroach in the kitchen one morning!!!! it was huge! We don't get cockroaches anywhere near that big here! Infact I have never been unlucky enough to encounter an English cockroach.... touch wood!

Helenxxx

[Guest]

lol - I bought ds an aquarium a couple weeks ago and put another fish in there for her. Im hoping that will keep her occupied. The last aquarium she had didnt have a lid and one day she decided she wated to "play" with her fish so she took him out of the water and played with him... I found him much too late.. She is so busy I get tired just watching her. The only time she is quiet is when she is sleep and she gets into way too much!!!!

[shearn01]

Ok I hate bugs too as I am hoping AJ doesnt do the slimy,crawly thing EEEEWWWWWWW

[Natalie]

Oh boy!

I started reading that post and got a little way through and thought 'do I really want to read this post? It's not going somewhere I like...' EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW. I HATE bugs and beasties.

I awarded myself 'Mummy Of The Year' award the other week when I managed to brush a money spider off Bethy's head lol. That was bad enough but beasties in a dumper truck - called Lucy??!!! YIKES

Natalie, x

[poutyangel]

Thanx, alot guys now I'm all itchy. That reminds me off 2 years ago in our house there was a mouse. See we live in the country next to a cornfeild so there are around. Alot of people claim they cant get rid of them but I seriously doubt that. We scrubbed and fumigated so much before we moved in I'm surprised we could breathe.

Anyway my 3 year old strolls in and informs me there is a mouse on her curtains. I say oh you are so silly and go on about my business. She is insistant that its there so I finally go in and much to my disgust there is a mouse the size of 50 cent peice on the curtains. I started screaming and needless to say my dh flew out of the shower to see what th h*ll was going on.

So picture this...a large soapy and semi nude man swinging a broom,a 3 yearold running in circles screaming with excitement, and a frantic mother grasping everything the mouse touched rubber gloves and trying to boil it lol.

[AmberWest]

So picture this...a large soapy and semi nude man swinging a broom,a 3 yearold running in circles screaming with excitement, and a frantic mother grasping everything the mouse touched rubber gloves and trying to boil it lol.

LMAO

That's about how it would look in my house too, but substitute 3 dogs and 3 cats for the three year old. And believe me, that's odd considering we have a pet rat Isis. Course, she's family, not some stranger who needs to be back out in that corn field.