CRIKEY!!! (again)
Ashton and Emmy love shows about animals, especially “Bindi the Jungle Girl” (Bindi “Croc hunter” Irwin ). So when Ashton spotted this tiny snake in our window well the first thing we did was teach him the word “Crikey”. After several minutes rehearsing we knew he was ready. As you will see in a minute we were wrong, DEAD wrong, well not really dead…you will see.
Here he is patting Emmy’s head, telling her not to be afraid of the snake. So sweet.
The snake was extremely scared and had bitten Josh a couple times, Josh said it didn’t hurt….
Then Ashton started getting a little too confident in his snake handling abilities….
Yeah, I screamed and turned off the camera as that wild serpent attacked my baby boy. We’ll see how many snakes Ashton wants to go near now. Since the incident we have revisited our Jr. Croc Hunter training strategy. As we see it we made two major mistakes.
- No khaki shorts (Ka-Keys – if your a real fan).
- Lack of enthusiasm – Emmy was the only one who was really excited, so we blame ourselves a little bit for not getting more annoyingly pumped up.
The next day, Ashton and Josh found a lovely little creature in our garage. Josh thought it would be very appropriate AND hilarious to add it to my Fall decor. (Appropriate…perhaps, Hilarious? )
They found it while I was running and while I was gone, this little jar with the deadly spider became Ashton and Emmy’s favorite toy. (Thanks, Josh) If you can’t tell this is a Black Widow – Ashton even gave it a name “Web”. Then somehow while they were napping “Web” mysteriously disappeared.
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Hey, love the new look- in a foreboding, creepy way- perfect for the season. 🙂 The boys just watched “Ashton and the Snake” about 20 times. They just kept pushing play over and over and cracking up. Did the serpent actually bite him, and if so, did you trample it like the Black?
Bummer…do you need my help looking for Web? I can’t believe he disappeared! Have you offered a reward? I bet if we all work our hardest, we can each find about 10 web look-alikes in our garages and outside and all bring them over to you! 🙂
That snake thing would have scared the crap out of me!
Oh my gosh……. Josh is not funny. I would have fainted because I stoppped breathing. Tell Ashton i am sorry that “Web” went missing but it is for the best….. Mom is happy. 🙂 I am also very glad that i was not around the day you found the SNAKE……
So- I am wondering what you did what that snake afterward. Because Saturday there was one on our lawn. Please tell me you tossed it to the street and it IS the same one and they are not invaded our ‘hood.
Jenn,
I am so glad that you commented on our blog! Come a stalkin’ any time! I have been meaning to comment on your blog because I found it a while ago, and love seeing what you are up to. Maybe we should purposely run into each other one of these days!
I know so many people who are finding BLACK WIDOWS!!!! One of our friends has an infestaion!!! We found one in the window well!!! SICK!! How do they know to come out right at Halloween time?!
Good to hear from you!
I didn’t know that Spanish Fork was so jungle-y. YUCK that you found a black widow- but it does make a killer decoration!! – you should paten that.