Our unwanted house guest.................

Everything happens when Joe is at the fire station.  It never fails. 

The kids were in the garage building their project....tell you all about that later..... when they came back into the house a huge bug flew in with them.  They were screaming!!!!  The babies were asleep......thank goodness. 

I was thinking to myself I have got to be the in-charge parent here and kill this thing some how without getting my children stung in the process.  Joe is our go-to-guy for fighting creepy creatures and things that go bump in the night.  But Joe wasn't home and this particular flying creature was HUGE!!!!  He positioned himself at the top of the window of my kitchen.....way hard to slap a fly swatter up there. 

B grabbed my phone and ran in the game room and called Joe like he was going to roll up in the fire truck and help us. He said with panic, "Joe its an emergency!!!!  There is this huge wasp in the house and we need to know what to do!!!!!!"

I was trying not to laugh.  It was cute to see the look of concern on his little chocolate face and how he was going to be the man of the house in Joe's absence. 

Thanks to our neighbor, our emergency became just another wacky day in our house of fun.  He had a battery operated fly swatter which zapped the buzzing beast.  Now B has him in a jar and has researched all about him.  It turns out this bug is a cicada killer wasp.  

I love it...a scary experience ends up being a fun learning experience for B. 

Hope you have a great day!!! 

Tara