On Saturday, I arranged a playdate with Alice's friends (Brantley & Julia) from kindergarten at her old school. We went to Crowder District Park and they had a great time playing on the playground, picnicking by the pond, and then building "bug houses" out of mud on the picnic table. They really spend the most time with the mud, and sometimes threw the grubs they found to the fish in the pond. I had a great time visiting with the moms.
When we were walking back to the cars, Simon found a stink bug and kept talking about the stink bug he found. Until he screamed, "Owww!" and dropped the stink bug. Turns out his little stinker was actually an assassin bug. The kid is lucky to be alive. (It kills bugs, not humans, but the internet says the bite is worse than wasps. It must not have really got Simon good, because he would have at least cried, probably.)
