Random outside fun

One day back in October it was really warm and sunny out.  While Tim worked on the shed, the rest of us played in the driveway.  Here are some pictures.

 We drew lots of things with chalk.  For most of them, the kids would ask Mam to draw something and then Cam would draw his version.  Here are Mama and Cameron's cat pictures.

And Mama and Cameron's frog pictures.  Mama is certainly not an artist, but Cameron and Leah were impressed with my skills!

Cameron drawing a snowman.  In the middle of the bottom circle you can see a friend that we made while were playing outside that day.

Cameron checking out our friend

He is a praying mantis!

He was one very cool bug.  I wish I had a macro lens (or better photography skills) so that I could take close-up pictures of him.

There are about a million pictures of him.  He was a very cooperative subject.

Once we were done playing with our new friend the praying mantis, we decided to put him back in the grass so that he wouldn't get run over in the driveway.  Cameron wanted to carry him back into the grass but did not want to touch him.  Nana came up with the idea of getting the praying mantis to crawl onto the board, then using that to bring him back to the grass.  That worked out very well;  Cameron was happy to help his little bug friend.