Bee Invasion

Yesterday afternoon I took the girls outside to play at their water table. The water in it was dirty so I picked it up and tipped it out over the banister. I soon noticed a whole bunch of bees flying around. Then I looked down in front of me and saw a bees nest attached underneath the water table. I quickly let go of the table and it fell off the banister onto the ground below. The bees were all upset and I hurried the girls into the house. Eliza and Sadie were so upset that they didn't get to play in the water. We watched the bees fly around all upset through the window.

I am actually kind-of surprised that I didn't get stung when I was disrupting the bees nest. Without realizing it, when I had the table resting on its side on the banister, the nest was parallel with my stomach. Scary. I told David about it on the phone. When he got home from work he picked the nest up with his hands and carried it to some spot in the yard and smooched it with his shoe. A bee tried to follow him into the house but he managed to keep it out. I like to go to David's blog and tease him by making this comment , "You are so brave." Its sort-of turned into a joke between us. However, this time I have to say that David really is brave!

So the girls got to have their water table fun this morning instead. (You may have noticed that Sadie's swim suit is a little too big. She refused to take her suit off last night and it got dirty when she ate dinner in it. She had to wear one of Eliza's swim suits instead). As the kiddos played I kept my eyes on these four bees who kept flying around us. They mostly hung out on the ceiling of the porch. They were making me nervous. After about 40 minutes I think I finally made Eliza nervous enough to want to come inside. Does anyone know how to dissuade these bees from being interested in living on my porch?