I never thought I’d say…

“Simon, did you check for maggots in the bowl this morning?”

Ugh.

Explanation:

Simon has started a bug collection. One of his favorite finds so far is a ‘Giant Stag Beetle’. Most of our finds are already dead (we have not advanced to the tracking and capturing stage yet). The stag beetle was no exception, so the day after we found it Simon showed Aunt Lori who asked why there was a live white worm crawling around? The Mom in me surfaced and I pulled it out and disposed of it. So disgusting. We figured out it came from the stag beetle and since that’s Simon’s favorite find so far I couldn’t throw that away.  Thus we have the resulting morning maggot check.