the Roly Poly From a Few Weeks Ago

A few weeks ago, me and Holden went outside to catch a praying mantis. It turns out that praying mantises are impossible to find. So I asked Mom what other bugs we could catch, and she suggested roly polies. So I walked about 2 yards away and quickly located one. I used a shovel to pick it up and it rolled into a ball. Then I dropped it right into the bug jar. A few minutes later it unrolled. It was on it's back and took a few minutes to get up. Then it ran around. Holden decided it was a boy (because toddlers control the gender of all bugs) and the roly poly got the jar moved a little and got on his back and took a minute to get up again. We stuck it on the table and gave it grape to crawl on. Then we moved it to the window sill where Roxy (the cat) stuck her head under the jar and knocked it over. The roly poly rolled up into a ball again. Holden saw a spider and Mom had to come kill it. A few hours later we went to bed. In the middle of the night the roly poly died. In the morning Holden insisted that the ball of ick sitting in the jar was 'taking a nap' and not dead and so I couldn't throw away the dead ickball without a tantrum. A few days later we 'released' the 'sleeping' roly poly.

        
                                                                  Such a cutie.