CATERPILLARS ARE EVERYWHERE- I’ve killed 2 already
Here in DC, it’s caterpillar season.
We have a small tree in our backyard that those small white moths chose to infest with 18 caterpillar nests (I just counted). Don’t know if the tree will make it, but that’s another post for another day. Ahh, nature.
Caterpillars are EVERYWHERE. They are on our house, our deck, our screened-in porch, the front steps, the sidewalk, the grass and the streets.
You have to watch where you step… I learned this the hard way.
My son told me to watch where I was stepping a few days ago. I thought I was…
My son: Mommy, watch where you’re stepping.
Me: I am honey.
My son: Mommy, lift up your foot.
I saw a squished caterpillar with a black ball of goo protruding from it’s nether regions.
My son: That’s not good.
Me: ( Thinking about what I’m going to say)
My son: That will go back in, won’t it? (pointing to the black ball of goo)
Me: (Pause) Yes, it will. I’ll just put it over here in the garden to heal (I know I’m lying to my child- YIKES!)
My son: (looking at me like he’s not sure to take the leap of faith that whatever Mommy says is true)
That was a few days ago. And since then he has told everyone to make sure they watch where they step because “Mommy stepped on one, but it was okay”.
Last night was the topper. My husband and I sat down with my son after dinner on our front steps to wave to the ice-cream man (my son didn’t want any ice-cream, but he wanted to wave to the truck- gotta love kids).
We went inside and started to get ready for bedtime. I got up from our couch that
WE JUST RE-COVERED 2 WEEKS AGO because of the too-numerous-to-keep-track-of
diaper, vomit, mucus, and food mishaps.
My husband looked at me with alarm. I looked down. A dead caterpillar was on the couch !!!!!!!!
My husband asked me to turn around.
My husband: Why don’t you go upstairs and change. We’ll meet you up there. (LUCKILY, My son was in the bathroom)
I quickly cleaned up the caterpillar insides off our couch and ran upstairs- because my son was flushing the toilet.
I had sat on a caterpillar outside and it there was black goo ALL OVER the seat of my pants.
How did I sit on a caterpillar ???!!!!!! UGH !!
It just reminds me: LISTEN to 4-year-olds. They’re smart!
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2 Comments on CATERPILLARS ARE EVERYWHERE- I’ve killed 2 already
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DeeDee on
Wed, 14th May 2008 9:55 pm
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JessicaAPISS on
Sat, 17th May 2008 5:28 am
Gah! We lived up in DC for a few years and I remember those nasty caterpillars! My son use to try to catch them and “raise” them in his room but they would always get out. Do you know how hard it is to get caterpillar guts out of carpet and white socks??! Pretty hard.
In case you didn’t know, I found your blog through DadGoneMad. I’ve posted a complete list of everyone who left their blog link on his Big Big Stars post a while back in a post of my own in April called Blog Rolling With My Homies over on my blog, so if you want to see it come on over and sit a spell. I don’t bite..…that hard anyway!
If you did know just overlook this and pretend I said something funny since my brain feels like mush from trying to comment on all 217 on the list because somebody had the bright idea to challenge me to it!!
My kids have been collecting these guys and making “houses” for them with my Tupperware. DO NOT ASK what a Tupperware container of 30 dead caterpillars smells like, and no, it will not be holding leftovers any time soon. Ugh!
Of course I tossed and then told the kids that they had already turned into moths and were having a happy life ruining another mom’s cashmere sweaters.
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