Frog Dissection (Warning: Photos Included!)

So, we have good news/bad news. First the bad news, did you hear that one of our fire-bellied toads died? It was an accident, I swear! We moved them into a container for their cricket feeding and one never made it back out alive. It was sad. (And gross!) I think he choked on a cricket...

In any case, Brandon's idea (not mine!) - let's dissect it! So, since everyone was ok with the idea of dissecting the frog, we froze him and set the plan in motion for a day that I WAS NOT GOING TO BE HOME! Oh yes, I can do a lot of things, but dissect a frog is not one of them.

Fernando and the kids did a great job learning about how to properly dissect a frog. He was much smaller than a normal frog you would dissect, but they were able to identify many parts. (I'll spare you the gross cut-open photos!)

Can you guess from the photos who loved it and who didn't? Sophia may be a budding surgeon for all the dissecting she did. She was so fascinated, that she asked Santa for a model of a dog's anatomy for Christmas! (Seeing Santa's face trying to register what the h*ll she was asking for was priceless! HAHA!) 

Brandon, on the other hand, peeked at the process a few times, but spent most of the project shielding the other frog's view so he wouldn't have to see what was happening to his friend. That's our sensitive soul!

And yes, I was the sucker who felt bad for the lonely toad and bought him a new friend last week. If another one dies, I'll be putting on a neighborhood dissection so everyone can come check it out!