Ok so maybe I am not as gung ho about nature study as I purport to be. Turns out there is a limit.  Our friends own the property directly across from us which is currently vacant land with a giant stock pond. The kids have been watching the tadpoles grow for a few weeks now.  BIG old tadpoles! Like the shooter marbles you use to hit the other ones. Our friends were commenting about where the frogs go when they are frogs.  Do they stay at the pond or wander off?  Ask no more. Please <g>

Questions a queasy pregnant woman does not want to answer:

"Mom, did you lose a frog?" (Z, upon walking down the hall after work)

"How do you suppose they got in the house?"

"It’s like what God did to those people in the bible!"

"Did you know they get to be the size of a man’s hand?"

"How do you suppose they eat mice?"

and my favorite….

"Can we keep it???"

Nuh uh.  Not this time. But if you are less prone than I to vomiting at the sight of them leaping at your slider doors in the rain you might like this site:

All About Frogs