Amphibians

Joe's gift to Stephen this year was a little newt from PetSmart. Here's an elated Steve looking into a tank at the store. Ironically, he was most interested in the 13-cent feeder goldfish... but we thought an amphibian would be more fun.

Here's "George," as Stephen named him, in a tempory holding tank.(The first two we bough leaked.)

I let Stephen hold George briefly on the way home.

We only meant to house one amphibian, but a funny thing happened on the way home from a visit to our friends, Jacki and Mike. Grey Tree frogs are common in these parts... and we saw a number of them along the walk way to our friends' house as we left late one night. On the way home, the boys drifted off to sleep, but all of a sudden I heard Rockam shuffling in his car seat as if he was startled. The swishing noises eventually subsided and all was quiet until we got home.

When we finally brought Rockam inside he was out cold in his car seat. On top of his fuzzy little head sat the tiny tree frog pictured above. Stephen named him "Agg-Ack Agg-Ack" after the sound that he things frogs make. We kept him for a few days... but I was finding it difficult to capture and feed him sufficient numbers of bugs. One morning Agg-Ack was sitting on my knife block, and I decided he needed to be returned to the wild! Cute little fella though!