The bug with wings

Monday night after bath, I found Gillian in her room. She was very upset. "Mommy, there's a bug with wings in here!" I looked down and there was a brown moth on her dresser. I quickly sandwiched it between two pieces of paper. I headed towards the bathroom to flush him, but I looked down and the moth was gone. I lied to Gillian and told her he was gone. She was still a little shaken up and asked me to snuggle with her before she fell asleep. 

Tuesday morning, Daddy saw the moth again and pointed it out to Gillian. She screamed and jumped into my arms. Daddy flicked the moth and he ended up under Gillian's dresser. Once again we told her "Don't worry he's dead." 

Wednesday night, we tucked the kids into bed and before long Gillian was out of bed. "The bug with wings, isn't dead!" Yup the moth was back again. But Daddy came to the rescue and finally killed the moth. 

Poor Gillian. She had a rough week with the bug with wings. 

The bug

Daddy was driving Gillian home from school tonight and Gillian kept saying "Daddy, there's a bug!" Daddy couldn't do anything about it because he was driving. The bug was on the back of the headrest of the seat in front of her. She calmed down for a few minutes while the bug moved to the front of the headrest. But then she freaked out again when he moved to the back. "There's a bug! There's a bug! There's a bug! There's a bug!"

When I asked her about it later, she said "I's ascared of the bug. Him's going to get me!" (Daddy said the bug was an ant and was nowhere near her. No bugs or Gillians were harmed during the car ride.)

The Spider

John and Gillian's school had a visitor last week.  The kids were visited by Insectropolis and they brought all kinds of insects for the kids to see.  Gillian was not too excited about the bugs coming to school (even though it was only a few weeks ago when she told me that spiders were her favorite animal.)  John told me that he saw a tarantula at school.  He also said "I didn't touch it.  But it was hairy!  Did you know that there are no kinds of spiders that can hurt you?"  I'm not so sure about his fun fact, but I do love how he says tarantula.