Funny

I have just finished showering the boys and checking their heads for nits (note came home from school that some kids in the class had them), anyway, my routine is to cover their heads with conditioner and comb it through with a wire tooth comb. I wipe the conditioner off on a tissue and check it for nits - the method always works great. Anyway, when I was doing Ben's hair I thought I got a couple of lice - but I wasn't sure, so I put the tissue to one side and when Ben was finished, we took the tissue into the kitchen and got the magnifying glass to see if we could see any legs, etc. Then we thought that we could get the microscope (thank you Aunty Jacqui) and have a look at them under that. The evidence was inconclusive.

I then went through the same routine with Jake - who was quite agitated as he claimed that I never find any nits in his hair anyway - and he was right I didn't. But he made mention of the nits in Ben's hair and I explained that I couldn't be sure they were nits/lice, to which Jake responded that he had seen the legs and it was definitely a nit. After his shower I asked him to show me the nit with the legs and he walked over to the kitchen table and pointed to a tiny little black creature that sure enough had legs......poor Jake what he didn't know it that Ben had decided that he wanted to see what an ant would look like under the microscope and he had gotten one from the back garden.....!!!!!