"A bug's life....."

So recently, this little guy came to visit our family...., although, he wasn't so little.  He planted himself high on our window and we were able to watch him daily. He rarely moved, if ever, from his position on the window. Elijah Brooks enjoyed waking up each day and running to the window to see if he was still there. He remained on the window about 5 days - not really sure what he was doing all of that time, but clearly was enjoying some "R&R". One warm afternoon last week, I had left the backdoor open and the kids were going in and out of the house and I was in the laundry room washing clothes.  I heard the pitter-patter of little feet heading my way and these words, "uh oh, uh oh, uh oh, uh oh" over and over again. I turned around and saw my adorable little daughter with a tightly clinched fist that was waving in the air side to side, continuing to say "uh oh, uh oh, uh oh". As she was waving her tightly clinched fist in the air, I could see lime green coming out from her fist. I knew exactly what she had in her hand, although I didn't know the prognosis of this lime green creature. My reaction startled myself, and her, and for some reason I started screaming like a crazy woman...., all the while, she stood there looking at me rather strangely, wondering why her mommy had gone mad. It is funny to me now as I think back to my reaction - I still have no idea why I reacted like that, but it makes me laugh now. I guess I was expecting her to put it in her mouth, which was probably the next step anyway. I had no idea if the poor thing was dead or alive, so I just screamed, "put it down"......, and all at once, her little fist opened and our "house guest" fell to the floor in my laundry room......, and didn't move. In silence, she stood there staring at it and I stood there staring at it, and then her (still shocked that she had brought him inside), and then she said in the saddest little voice, "awwwww". I gained my composure and in the meantime, Elijah Brooks heard the commotion and came running in to see what was wrong. He stopped dead in his tracks and went, "Oh, this isn't good". To make a long story short, EB wanted to give him a proper goodbye, so he is buried in our backyard near the fence.  I truly doubt that Ellison actually killed him...., but the way she was waving her arms around in the air, it's possible. My guess is that he died of natural causes and she brought the dead creature inside to show me - don't think she would have been able to catch him.  But with her, anything is possible!  I have since then fished out a fly and a beetle from her mouth...., what am I going to do with her??

pictures really don't show how big he really was 

   

And yes, this picture actually makes me tear up!