Recently, a friend came over to play with the boys. I wasn’t aware they were doing some bee-wrangling until I saw them out the window with Ziploc baggies full of bees. Pretty dumb idea, but I didn’t bother to stop them. Who wants a cranky mom stifling creativity when your friends are over? For real.
A couple hours later, we took the friend back home. Kyle was told to go and release, or dispose of the bees. Kyle goes outside, followed by Andrea. Moments later, Andrea screams and goes running into the house.
Instead of releasing the bees, Kyle declares himself a friend of all bees and demonstrates to sweet, innocent little sister how he can let a bee crawl on him without getting stung. Bees are dumped out of the bag and crawling around in the grass. They are half-suffocated, dazed and confused, mad as heck, and ready for vengeance. Andrea decides to pick one up and let it crawl on her too. After all, she's related to the "friend of all bees", so maybe it runs in the family. Big mistake! It was her first bee sting, right on the thumb.
Earlier that same day, Ryan got stung on his finger. He was squirting them with water guns, catching them in Ziploc baggies, tying strings onto them for bee-kites(after sedating them for a few minutes in the freezer), and generally harassing them. Bees , boys, and boys' sisters beware!
4 comments:
Bee's are the worst. You are like the coolest/craziest mom our there. I would have nipped their fun in the butt.
I never would have thought to put a bee in the freezer to sedate it so I can tie a string it for a bee kite - that is some serious creativity!
Sarah, the lights on the bikes in our Halloween picture are programmable LEDs. They're super awesome, but also somewhat impractical - they're expensive, each one takes a ton of batteries, and they get ruined if you ride around in the rain. I don't think your glow stick idea is a bad one! :)
That's some funny stuff-might have to try it with my boys right after we all have a shot of lemon juice!!
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