::buggy::

Max's class at school was studying insects way back at the beginning of the year. At that point his teacher told the kids to look for bugs and bring cool ones in.

So several weeks ago when Max found a cool bug he and Kris caught it and he insisted on bringing it to school. I told his teacher that he had a bug and she said "Of course he does!! The kids won't stop bringing them!"

So I guess the bug pulled some hijinks in the classroom that day. He escaped from his little jar and crawled and flew around the room and Max and friends got in trouble taking too long capturing him before lunch.

After the bug's second day in his jar I said it was time for him to go free. I forced Max to take his jar outside so he could go free. There were many tears and sad statements made. The bug was his BEST FRIEND! This was the ONLY TIME I've EVER let him keep a bug!! He LOVES THAT BUG!
But finally I convinced Max that buggy needed his freedom. Buggy hung out in his jar for the evening (happily for Max) and then left for the wild.

It's quite the nature story. Nature Max loves nature.

::more nature max::

Do you remember the Nature Max movie we made last fall?
Well, Max and I just finished up a new one, and he's really excited about it.
It's my first iphone video, and I think it looks pretty darn good. The only problem I have with it is the audio--the phone doesn't pick up audio as well as our little video camera, although the video is like a million times nicer. Can't have it all I guess.

Enjoy Nature Max--Taos edition. And you know you can change the video quality of what you're watching down in the lower right hand corner. Hopefully your internet is faster than ours and can show you the video at all!

(and if you have watched the original Nature Max lately you might catch a few allusions Max makes to himself--he thinks he's pretty funny.)

::nature max::

I spent the last day editing videos of our camping trip. I think Max might be the next Jeff Corwin (as long as he has a really good video editor!)

This is kind of long--about seven minutes, but it's really cute. So I'd say if you're a relation and you think Max is cute, you should definitely check it out. I hope the quality is ok. I hate how bad things look on youtube!!