FAMILY: We saw a frog the other day in our backyard.  Kind of dry for a frog back there so Jake (4 yrs. old) and Henry (3 yrs. old) and I figured we would take him down to the creek and get him near some water.  A sand bucket was the closest transportation vehicle and a stick made for a good motivator.  “Don’t hit the frog with the stick” I said, “just touch him on the butt.”  Sure enough he hopped right in that bucket.  A piece of an old sheet on the top so he wouldn’t jump out and off we went…Dad, Jake, Henry and that old frog in a sand bucket.  “Are we going to let the frog go in the creek?…Is he okay?…Will he jump far dad?”  They were excited.  Through the backyard, the driveway, out on the street and down the road we walked.  Finally we got to the creek and Jake took the sheet off the top of the bucket and Henry dumped the frog into the creek.  He swam right away, jumped up on a rock and went back in the water.  “Look dad…he’s happy,” Henry said.  He was. That’s it! No moral to this story but I sure did enjoy taking the time with my boys to take a frog back home and then say…”wait ’til you tell Mom about the frog.”  They couldn’t run fast enough to share the news.