Bugs bugs bugs. It seems these days I just can't get away from them. Some bugs are cute and some are just icky!
Our cute little Katelynn bug was a butterfly for Halloween (that happens to be my favorite type of bug). I tried to be crafty and make her costume mostly from scratch. I think it turned out really cute!
Her wings I made from a hard foam butterfly shape, added glitter glue and puff paint, and glued a feather boa on the edge. I attached fold over elastic on the front with some velcro to wrap around Katelynn's tummy so the wings would stay on.
I made her antenna from pipe cleaners glued onto a stretchy headband, and I added ribbons and flowers to her tutu skirt.
I think she was the cutest little bug ever!
As for those other kind of bugs- the icky ones- I think it has been a nonstop battle with them ever since we moved to Hawaii. The biggest battle has been cockroaches! Ew! They were in our first apartment and this one. Steve did literally everything to get rid of them- bug spray, traps, poison, sealing up every single hole in the house either with caulk or duct tape. We saw less and less of them, but they were never completely gone, until the bug bomb! We set one off while we were on vacation last summer, and we have had a cockroach free apartment for 3 months---until two days ago. I found one in the cupboard. . . the battle has resumed. At least we smashed that one. And now it will be back to checking the kitchen and cupboards every time we wake up in the middle of the night to smash and kill any we may see. . .
And now another bug story- another gross one. A few weeks ago I noticed little bugs on Katelynn's sunday dress. I brushed them off and finished getting ready for church. But at church I kept noticing more bugs in the seams etc. So I came home and checked the closet (I hang her dresses in my closet) and found more bugs on her clothes, my clothes, on my shelves, in everything! Weevils. Evil weevils. So over the next few days I take everything out of my closet (a huge task in itself since we have limited storage and we pack our storage areas tight) and bag it up. I found the evil weevil source- a rice sock I had made when I was pregnant- that I would warm up in the microwave and have Steve roll up and down my back when it hurt. Yea- it was full of weevils. So disgusting! After that was thrown out and everything was bagged up, we started going through the bags and brushing out the weevils or checking to make sure the items were weevil free. I can't believe the little spaces they got into- jewelry boxes, packaged items, closed containers- yuck. I ran literally all the clothes from the closet through the washing machine. And yesterday we rented a carpet cleaner and cleaned the carpet. I haven't seen any weevils for a while, so I think we are going to win this battle. And the lesson to learn- do not leave rice in your closet! Even if it has been through the microwave a few times!
Items in bags to either suffocate or starve the evil weevils.
Clothes bagged up and ready to be washed.
Are you grossed out enough for one day? Cause I could keep going with the stories about the ants, the mosquitos, the bugs in my nightmares. . . Ok, I'll save those stories for another day.
