Lady bugs

The girls really love the garden at school so we decided to actually plant some flowers this year.  They loved it.  Then I decided we needed to have some pest control.  After the kids were born, I got a little psycho with chemicals so I wanted to do organic.  There is a nursery near us that lets you buy "helpful" bugs so we purchased some lady bugs.  Apparently they are in a dormant state if they stay cold so we kept them in the fridge until it was time to release them (dusk).  The girls helped us prep the flower bed with sugar water spray (I never knew how exciting spray bottles were to little kids)

and then helped us release the lady bugs. 

 It was so, so cute.