Jiminy Cricket...it's time for school!

I wish I would have seen this.....

Instead of this......

on my bedroom wall, right above the headboard.  

Actually, I'm glad it wasn't a spider.  It all started with a hilarious report from Thirteen the other morning as I was getting ready for a tutor meeting to plan our first day of 'school' as a part of the new Classical Conversations group in our area.  I was getting out of the shower when there was a knock on the bathroom door.  (Even at ten and thirteen the kids' magic of suddenly needing mom when the bathroom door is shut or there is a phone call continues to baffle me. )

A report ensued.  It went something like this....

"Mom, I need to inform you that there are 29 crickets loose in the house."

I replied, through the bathroom door, something like, 

"Umm.  OK."

The report continued, through the bathrooom door.

"I bought 30 crickets at the pet store and I put them  in the bug house. There's a hole in the bug house."

I answered, logically, through the bathroom door,

"Well, put tape over the hole." 

What was I thinking?  

Something along the lines of, "Thank goodness it wasn't spiders."

Why the crickets?  This week Thirteen used his earnings from watering a neighbor's yard to buy one of these...

He has been piecing together the habitat all week.  A little cart before the horse, might I add.  "Autumn" is living in a Steralite tub with a board over the top.  She has the mandatory light, and a few necessary crickets.  

As for the crickets in the house?  I think there are about 21 now.  We've found several in our room and today I found one on the wall by Thirteen's room.  

The tutor meeting was immensely helpful and the first day of Classical Conversations (on Thursday) went great!