Snails and Puppy Dog Tails

Last Friday I painted our backyard fence.  It was a glorious morning and the boys were enjoying running around after breakfast.  I came across a few snails and so I called them over to take a look.  They were so excited about the find.  I encouraged them to go get their Critter Cabins that Uncle Matt gave them for Christmas.

For the past few months, they have been so anxious to find a bug or some sort of creature to put in it. How appropriate that the first thing was a snail.  Malachi then noticed there were empty snail shells and so he decided that his snail might want to exchange shells so he put all of the shells into the Cabin.  I am sure that there will be lots of interesting bugs stored there.  As long as no snakes call that home, I'll be good.