Krazy for Wild Kratts

As a parent you will find yourself saying phrases you never thought you would ever utter. The following phrase was spoken just a few nights ago.

"Ted don't touch that it's garbage. Give it back to baby." 


While coming home from a walk I noticed a worm on the ground. Pre-mamma Whitney would have taken two steps to the side and kept on walking. Today the sight of a worm on the sidewalk was an exciting opportunity. Wheeling Ted's stroller around I announced,

"Look Ted a worm! Just like in the animal show! We need to save it and put it back in the grass so the sun does not dry it out" 

Ted was unbuckled and hopping over to the worm he placed it on a nearby patch of grass. Hooray! We saved the worm!

Thanks to one of our apartment neighbors we have become hooked on the show "Wild Kratts". He also has a toddler and told me the show is awesome and full of interesting facts about animals. I am familiar with the Kratt brothers. They have been around since I was a kid. A little skeptical, I looked the show up on Amazon Prime and put it on for Ted.

Did you know there are tons of animals that depend on aardvarks to dig holes for them to live in.

Alligator babies will live with their mom for a year.

And worms can sense  the vibrations in the ground of moles coming to eat them so they head above ground. Birds peck at the ground to create vibrations so the worm is fooled into thinking a mole is coming and they head above ground and get snatched up by a bird!

Ted loves the worm episode and requests it the most. At the end of the episode, the Kratts suggest kids help out worms by putting them back in the grass if they are stuck on the cement because the sun can dry them out really quickly.

After saving the worm Ted ran and sat in a hole in the grass and announced that is where he lives now just like an aardvark.