Thursday, October 29, 2015

Eggs!


 There were a few weeks where my kitchen counter had a few jars of random eggs waiting to hatch on it. As I was cleaning the boys closet one day, I found two lizard eggs hiding in their shirts. Randomness from living here, right?! As I showed the boys the eggs, Elliot decided that he wanted to break one open right then and see what was inside. So we dropped one onto the tile and peeked inside to see. Sorry, I know its a little gross, but just chalk it up to science. :) Sure enough there was a tiny slimy lizard wrapped up inside but he didnt survive long but I have to admit it was a little cool seeing it in there. We put the second egg in a jar and decided to wait and see what happens with him.


This is what the eggs look like

first crack



Elliot removing the shell

The lizard still in its sack

If you look closely you can see the tail wrapped up around the head

poor little guy

The second egg in its new home

While we waited for the lizard to hatch, we started seeing these huge moths all around our yard. They were sluggish and clung really tightly to where they were.  We thought they were cool at first, but them we started seeing them more and more and then we got grossed out. I started thinking that maybe the reason they were so sluggish was they were at the end of their lives and about to drop a ton of eggs somewhere and they were extra heave. The kids smashed one one day and, lo and behold, inside there were hundreds of eggs. We thought it would be a good addition to our lizard egg, so we trapped one one day and waited for it to lay its eggs. After that, we jared them up and waited.

This was its alarmed state after we blew on it

The kids opening our trap

success!!



Going to join lizard egg in the kitchen

One day after school Keenan came running out of the kitchen excitedly yelling that our lizard had hatched!! Pretty incredible that he fit in that little egg!! The other egg was one that Elliot found in our living room behind a game. It never did hatch, just got kinda mushy and eventually stuck to the bottom of the jar. :)

Then a few days later, these little guys made their appearance! Sadly, they only lived a few hours even though I put in new leaves in there for them to eat. 


The boys thought it was pretty cool though to watch them for a bit!
 Now our counter is empty and we will have to hunt for new things to watch or take apart. Life with kids! :)


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