My mom went house hunting in South Carolina last weekend and came back with an alligator egg and a lizard for the kids. You place them both in water and the alligator egg, over the course of about 48 hours, cracks and hatches. The lizard over the course of a week grows from about 6 inches to 36 inches! Sounds cool - right? Well my kids went NUTS!!!! First we put the egg in and they stood there and watched for at least a half hour. Thankfully we started this process at bed time. In the morning Max asked immediately to go downstairs, where the egg and lizard were swimming, and check the egg. This is what we found...
I wish I had thought to take a photo BEFORE I put them in the water. DOH! But here is the egg after 12 hours. Max was yelling, "look mommy look... the egg is cracked!" and Maggie was cheering "yeah" and clapping her hands. They were so excited they wouldn't eat breakfast. Max also asked if he could take the egg to school and show his teacher, Mr. Rose. I tried to buy more time saying the alligator wasn't ready yet but maybe after his nap today.
Here is the lizard. Again, no forethought for the before photo's but after 12 hours this guy has easily increased in size by about a third. His tail is waaaaaaay longer.
"Look Mommy he growed."
"I touch it?"
"Is he nice?"
Such was the chorus of questions and comments. So cute!
THANKS MAMAW!
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