The way you catch a Sand Bug is you dig a hole, and then you look through the mud and it has to be quick, otherwise the Sand Bugs will dig back into the ground. And they look like little bugs.

Once you catch them, you should put them in a bucket full of cold water and cold sand.

This is a Sand Bug - and even though it's called a Sand Bug, it's still in the Crab family.

Coral Snake and North Star exploring the ocean. Can we dig to China? ("Not without going through or around the inner core," says North Star.)

Coral Snake liked these ferns in our woods. He found them.

Coral Snake found raccoon prints in the woods by our house. Here's his hand next to it.

They like to kiss.

North Star wrote about Mario. This is Coral Snake writing. This bird is Luigi. He doesn't care about getting his picture taken, he just stands there.

Mario does not like his picture taken. As soon as we took the picture, he jumped right off of the swing.

Here's a bumblebee on our Mountain Laurel flowers. See if you can find it!

Turtles in Chicago (from our trip)

Cuz and North Star with baby ducklings

Bullfrog

This is a bullfrog. We heard it before we saw it. Coral Snake heard it first and North Star saw it first. It was loud. We could come very close to it before it jumped back into the water.