Froggy Houghton

As soon as we got home from rehearsal, we ate a quick dinner then started getting ready for bed. While Grace and I were brushing our teeth, daddy was out watering the grass. We heard him come in the house and call us. I thought that Nandy and Papa were finally here (their plane was late), but it wasn't them! It was Froggy Houghton.

Daddy found a huge toad in the yard and brought it in to play. Grace was a little scared of it at first, but within minutes was petting it, mimicking it, growling and hissing at it, and naming him Froggy Houghton. At first, every time it moved, she would shriek and jump a foot in the air. Before long, she was scaring the toad and making him jump for cover.

Daddy put the toad in a big bucket and she got her little toy frog to put in another bucket next to it. She wanted to keep it forever, but I told her the toad had to go home to his mommy and when she woke up the next morning he was gone!