Hibernating?

Recently, Kasey found a new past time...stopping at the canal on his way home from school! The first day he did this he got in trouble!! Not because he stopped but because he didnt tell anyone he was stopping and then claimed to have "fallen in". Kinda hard to fall in when the road is 8 feet wide!! He said he was taking a shortcut home...(the canal is not on the way home at all). Oh well, we got through it and made a deal that he had to come home first from now on! So, since then he has gone back to the canal a few times. The canal does not have any water in it. The kids jump down in the ravine and look for sink holes of mud. They dig in these little sink holes and pull up CrawDads! They took a bucket with them last week! They filled the bucket with water and loaded it up with approximately 30 crawdads!! They proudly carried there catch home with them!! For the first two days they would check on them and find worms to feed them. Then they lost interest...

A few days later we told Kasey that the crawdads were most likely dead! He refused to believe us....he said "No Mom...they are just hibernating!!" Jeff and I laughed and just let him believe that. After about two more days the water in the bucket was frozen solid!! I said "ok dude their DEAD!!" He said "No Mom...they are just hibernating!!"

So We dumped the bucket over....this is what dropped out...

Hmmm....Hibernating?

Hmmm...Sure don't think so!

Needless to say...he lost the battle. The resting place for these wonderful creatures is somewhere in the landfill!!