It is love bug season here in Florida. Lauren is terrified of them to the point of shrieking during a visit to our local nursery in search of plants to fill our butterfly garden. Unfortunately, it's a season of swarms and she's going to have to learn to live with them. I can't possibly come to her rescue each and every time. Enter Katherine. Today, I filled up the kiddie pool on the patio so they could stay in my line of sight while I planted our new flowers. In the time it took me to come into and out of the porch a couple of times, a few dozen love bugs breached the entrance to our patio. This greatly disturbed Lauren. Big sister (ok, I actually typed "bug sister" lol) came to her rescue by catching the bugs that Lauren pointed out. She then put them in the kiddie pool and with some teamwork, the girls managed to drown a bunch of the little buggers without ever touching them. Then Katherine fished them out with the end of a jump-rope and walked each one into the house to it's final resting place in our trash can.
It's fun watching the two of them work things out without adult intervention. Lauren is not so scared of the love bugs when Katherine is there watching her back.
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