This morning Mama needed to do something on her computer, so Papa and I took a bike ride. It started out just like all of our rides do. I saw lots of cool things — some ladies planting trees, four almost-all-grown-up goslings, and lots and lots of puddles left over from the rain. But, you know, there was one thing I really wish that I had seen better…

After passing under some bridges where my voice was big and boomy underneath, the trail we were riding on ended. The only thing left was mud and rocks. Pretty quickly, Papa stopped pedaling and took me down to the creek for my favorite past-time - to throw some stones.

As we were nearing the water, there was a kerplop-splash! Papa looked around. He didn’t see anything, so we sat down and he gave me rocks to throw. After a few minutes, he took a hold of my arm and asked me if I saw the frog. He kept trying to point out a frog to me, but I didn’t see anything. We tried to quietly walk over to the rock that the frog was behind, spying out at us, but he scooted into the water as we came close. Again, I couldn’t see where he was even though Papa was showing me. He told me to keep waiting until the frog came up for air. But the froggy never did.

Finally, Papa took a great big stick and stirred the water close to the frog with it. As he did that, the frog swam away to the middle of the stream. And I saw him! He swam really fast and had huge legs. I asked Papa to make him come back so I could watch him some more, but the frog was gone.

There you have it. I saw the biggest frog I’ve ever seen, but only as he was swimming away from me. I wish I had been able to see him better when he was nearby because Papa kept talking about how pretty he was.

I don’t remember all the words, but back a few months ago there was a nice song about froggies that I sang in my Cradle Roll Sabbath school class. It went something like this:

Mister Froggy likes to hop, hop, hop,
Hop, hop, hop,
In the ponds and the puddles.
Oh, Mr. Froggy likes to hop, hop, hop,
Do-dee do-dee do-dee do, do, do, wop-wop!