Visitor from another world

This afternoon while Mitchy and I were playing on the deck we found a Praying Mantis. It was Mitch's first experience with one. He couldn't say, "Praying Mantis" so he just called it "creature". He'd get very close to it and then it would run and he would jump back and then get close to it again.
Mitchy checks out the "creature"

Standing Guard

Peeking over the railing



I couldn't quite get the focus I wanted unfortunately, but these shots are the best I could get. Mitchy was fascinated for about 20 minutes and then he started to get a bit too friendly (which with little boys means the creature normally ends up getting squashed) so we said "Goodbye" and left the little guy alone.