Evan the Bug Catcher

I'm trying to get all caught on my blogging after a month of nothing. This is the first of 4 posts I've put up today, so hopefully this will get everything up to date. Evan is an amazing bug catcher. Andy already makes fun of me because I can never seem to be fast enough to kill a fly with a fly swatter, but Evan can. He spends all kinds of time in the yard catching grasshoppers and crickets. At church a couple of weeks ago, he snuck (or sneaked) 2 communion cups and taped them together to make a little container for 2 crickets that he caught, which I thought was pretty ingenious. At Andy's dad's house they have one of those bushes that attracts butterflies. I think it's a buddleia, but I'm not 100% sure on that. When we go over there, Evan will spend forever out there catching butterflies. One day he caught 6 or 7 in a jar. The other day we were over there and he came running around the corner of the house with a huge monarch butterfly in his hand. It was pretty impressive. Andy's dad got him a jar to bring it home, and he kept it for a while until we convinced him to let it go before it died. In the first picture you can see it at the top of the jar right under the lid. I was snapping pictures, and the butterfly fluttered around for a few seconds before it flew off, but Alli stuck her big head right in the way and I didn't get any good shots of it. Ok, so Alli's head really isn't that big, but I was pretty darn irritated about it.