SNAKES!!!

So... we have found out that Yonas has "Eagle Eyes"! He seems to be particularly in-tune to snakes. 2 days ago he was in our front yard and started frantically saying, "Dad,Dad"! Our neighbor diagonally across the street from us had a 3 foot black snake trying to get into their garage. Levi was amazed he even saw it!

Then the next day they were at Nolan's t-ball game and Yonas looks up the hill and says, "Dad! Snake!" Levi did not see a thing, so Yonas took him by the hand, led him up a wooded hill to a bush, and sure enough there was a black snake. Yonas picked up a rock perfectly willing to do it in for Levi, but he explained it was harmless and could be left alone!

Then, during the t-ball game, a soccer ball that some kids were playing with hit a kid with 2 loose teeth in the mouth and their teeth fell out. They found one, but no one could find the other. Yonas walks right over, looks down, and picks up the tooth that no one else could find! Haha!

So... with all these snake sitings (which in the last 2 years we have only seen 1, so to get 2, 2 days in a row is amazing)... the kids have had SNAKES on the brain! So, the kids are playing in the back yard and we suddenly hear Salie and Yemane screaming, "SNAKE! DAD! SNAKE!" And I mean to say they were SCREAMING! TERRIFIED SCREAMING!!! And since it seems to be Snake Season, Levi runs out there. I hear the kids squeal even more because apparently Dad picked up the snake. And, can you believe it... Levi brought the snake inside. And here it is:



It is either a rare Pygmy Eyeless Mouthless Dwarf Snake... or it is just the common earth worm!!! I vote for the later! But still tonight when I showed them the picture they insisted it was a snake! It is a trip to see these kids discover new things. Now what are they going to think when we go fishing this summer and we buy and entire container of "Snakes!"