Bug Boy

Jasper Jude, my son. Six years old, he loves bugs, sea-creatures, space, & mechanical things. He draws imaginative detailed drawings that fill the page with his wild creations. A tracked vehicle with compartments to hold "critters" and rods off which dangle mosquito cages, going along a road with volcanoes and treacherous drop-offs, a scheme, presumably, to save the world! (Critter and bug world, that is.)
Jasper Jude has a variety of nick-names. His Thai name is Mii, or bear. We call him Jazzy, Jazz, among other nicknames. He is also cat-boy, that's his favorite. We call him bug-boy, too, because of his love for bugs and "critters." Our house is full of them. Some just come in, some are our kid's pets. We found that if we let them loose in the house they live longer than just sticking them in a bug cage. There are so many bugs and lizards in our house we hardly notice them. Sometimes they fly out of a corner and scare our househelper, Eew. I think she's getting used to them, though. Sometimes our cats eat them, much to our children's dismay.
We have found 3 kind of reptiles in our house, the common gecko which is plentiful in every house, the Tukka, our favorite, which is a very large and beautiful lizard, and a skink. Unfortunately the Tukka and the skink died. Lots of geckos die, too, because our cats eat them, or parts of them, but there are always more geckos so it isn't such a loss.
We all have become bug lovers, and lizard lovers, bird lovers. Who could help it with the amazing and beautiful varieties of them here in Thailand.
Jasper is the most passionate of us all, though.