Ants

I wrote this a few weeks ago but am just now posting it.  I’ll try to catch up some with the blog. :-)

We have had ants each year, and I thought they were gone this spring.  I was nursing Sienna the other day and Ethan pointed to an area on the floor where ants commonly were and said, “Ants.”  I told him that I hoped they were gone.  He said, “Outside”, and I said, “Yes, we don’t want the ants in the house; we want them outside.”  He kept pointing to something, but I didn’t see anything.  Finally, he walked over to me holding an ant between his index finger and his thumb.  I told him to throw the ant in the trash can (it was dead from him squashing it). 

We were outside today, and he pointed to a bunch of ants walking around and said, “Outside.”  I told him that they were fine outside and that I just didn’t want them inside.  However, a few minutes later, he showed me where he had killed an ant and said, “Trashcan.”  So, we’ll need to work on the concept of leaving ants alone when we’re outdoors.