Fireflies

We decided to let the boys stay up late last night to catch fireflies.  Lately they have been showing up right around the boys' bedtime, so after bath, we went outside.  We didn't see many fireflies for a few minutes and then they were everywhere!  Since it was dusk and not totally dark yet, it was really easy to see the fireflies flying around after they lit up.  We all caught a bunch easily - even Rylan.

I really thought Rylan was squishing them in his hands because he wasn't very gentle (especially when putting them in the bug box) but all seemed to survive!

(We ended up with at least twice as many fireflies by the time we went in.)

We finally went inside when it was too hard to see the bugs after they lit up, making them really hard to catch.  The boys had a blast but hopefully won't beg to catch them every night now :)