Grandma Sherri and I took the kids to the library today for what was supposed to be just a quick trip to return our books and gather a new stack. Well, it was a quick trip, but much more exciting than we had originally planned. One of these long horned beetles was crawling around the kids' area when we arrived. Jesse was in heaven. He contained the bug while I retrieved the librarian to remove the pesky creature. He was totally fine with it crawling on his almost bare flip-flopped foot. He created a cage with baby board books. The librarian was too freaked out to do anything, so she retrieved the custodian. He scooped it into a trash can and carried it outside. Jesse probably would have picked the thing up and carried it outside if I let him. All the while, Grandma Sherri was looking for a book in another section and missed all of the excitement. I wish I had had my camera, but I found this pic that looks exactly like the one we saw. We never saw one of these dudes in Kansas, that is for sure!
