Ladybugs

One of Gabriella's recent library finds was a book titled "Ladybugs" by Gail Gibbons. (I love her books.) We have read over that book quite a few times in the past two and a half weeks.  I love how God is deliberate about leading us to "stumbling upon" books or experiences that prepare us for things to come. He's done it time and time again and today was another one of those times.  We just so happened to "stumbled upon" dozens of ladybugs this afternoon and the connections we made along with what we learned was quite grand. It's beautiful to see God work little things like that out just for us. 

(Aside: Josiah's work lead him to the stamps earlier today which explains the blue spot he's sporting on his chin in all of the pictures.) 

Josiah and Mikey were excellent ladybug finders but it was Gabriella and Alyana who did all the catching. :) 

It took a while but after watching his big sister enjoy the lady bugs crawling all over her, Mikey decided he'd give it a try, too. He was tickled, but even so not possibly as much as I. :) 

They came in with us for a short span of thirty minutes or so then were set free again. 

After a few days, we even made since of what these things were that we kept seeing all over the place...the pupa shell of an emerged ladybug!

Nature is oh, so fascinating!