Alex is our animal lover. I remember a few years ago a mouse came into our house. As Seth was trying to chase it out the door with a broom, I was sitting on the kitchen table screaming, “Get it out of the house!” Alex was chasing Seth around telling him not to hurt the mouse. Get the picture? She loves all God’s creatures, big and small, even those that are not so cute and cuddly!
Last week after the rains she collected a big bucket of tadpoles and was determined to care for them till they morphed into frogs. She did loads of research on how to care for them and how to feed them and all of that. Alex really wanted to buy a reptile tank with her money at PetSmart. I suggested she try Craigslist and she found a ten gallon tank for $20. She has done such a great job caring for them. She has about 17 tadpoles that have already sprouted legs. She has spent hours watching, feeding and holding them.
Alex has invested about $30 of her own money, $20.00 for the tank and the remainder on rocks and crickets, her cousin gave her some blood worms. I calculated what it would have cost if she had gone to the store and purchased everything herself:
Tadpoles $7.00 for a few
Reptile Tank $69.99
Rocks, crickets and blood worms $18.00
Total of $94.99
Way to go Alex, good job on taking care of God's creatures and spending your money wisely!
PS. I'm so not the animal/creature lover. She must get that from her dad.
4 comments:
You are a nice mom to put up with that. I would have said "NO WAY!"
Pretty awesome - my kids do not have a creature loving mom. But I do remember catching tadpoles as a little kid in the creek behind our house. Alex is awesome!
BTW, the other mouse, the one I fished out of the pool one morning, was very cute. He had a blow dry in the bed of my truck, all the way to Scottsdale, where I freed him in a park. Dry he was cute as a button!
Should let the creatures free
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