Metamorphasis

Does anyone remember being confronted by Eli at about 2 1/2 and quized on metamorphasis? Most everyone he came to share his new found knowledge of butterflies with was pretty shocked he could even say the word at his age much less describe the steps of it. Well, now he gets to see it all with his own two eyes, in our back yard. Most everyone knows our yard is now officially a breeding ground for our frogs in our pond. Every year we are visited by many LOUD frogs. They love our pond, and some take ownership of the pond in our neighbors yard....and yes they talk to eachother back and forth from about dinner time to well past bedtime. They have become our white noise, helping us sleep more peacefully like were right there in the middle of the wilderness. I will admit that on some nights they get out of control and instead of talking to eachother in their peaceful croaking ways, they begin to yell at eachother pretty loudly. These nights Eli swears there isnt a frog out there, but instead there is a racoon. Silly kid. Well in past years our neighbor says he's gotten tadpoles in his pond. We've had goldfish and coi in our pond for years so we've never gotten any....or well, that we've seen before the fish ate them up. But somehow mysteriously this last year over night our fish dissapeared, so this year as I found out a few weeks ago...we have babies! ...froggy ones that is. Ive tried to get a video so everyone can "hear" our friends, but they quiet down when they see the camera coming. They dont mind the actual pictures being taken, but for some reason they dont like the video on it. So here I have a picture of two of our frog friends floating about, and then a picture of the eggs the day I found them in the pond about 3 weeks ago and then the last one is just a couple days ago. Eli's very excited about watching this metamorphasis process in our back yard and we will continue to post updates on our baby frog process. He really wants to take them to sharing at school, maybe i should get approval of that from his teacher first? Also if anyone knows the hatching success ratio of frogs please let us know. As of now, if they all hatch, we could easily have 1000 frogs in our yard. :)Could this be mommy and daddy???

More and more of them have come out of their little ball egg shape and turned into wormy things.......and now most of them have their little frog belly looking shape forming. Still very small and silly looking, but they are definalty "morphing". And no, none of my blogs on these will have Jakes bioligy terms attached...you'll just have to deal with pictures and terms like "frog belly looking shape" haha
Hopefully before long I can capture the "sound" of the frogs and post that on here as well.