Crawfish Find

Before all the rains of late - by the I hope everyone is doing fine - we got out and played in pond that formed in our backyard from the previous rains, while mom started the garden boxes.  At any rate, while we were out the Thaddeus discovered a crawfish!.....

Now, I have to tell you that i am terrified of these things, they were in our backyard as a kid and I always considered a scary/gross as spiders.  And to eat one, as so many around these parts do, absolutely not!  I think of it as eating anything else you might find in your backyard - ants, spiders, beetles, etc.  Gross....
(This being said i will say that although i think of crawfish this way, I do enjoy some good lobster or crab with butter to dip it in. Mmmm, yumm, wish i had some now ;) )

Okay, back to the story with the boys, so Thaddeus runs inside to get a butterfly net that Mimi and Papaw had just given to all the boys for Easter the day before and comes out and catches the thing in his net. To cute to see my little man crawfish catching!

Then, i got a bucket for them and put some of the 'pond' water in it for the thing and we put it in there for all to look at it. Thaddeus, Tristen, and even Ethan found this very cool. 

 They wanted to keep it inside when we came in, but Absolutley Not! ;)