EEW! A Bug!

My little girl just loves things that move. We recently had an encounter with a praying mantis, and she loved it. She kept trying to hold it then she would shriek and run when it moved. So after a while I took the bug and put him in a safe place (so I thought). I went and turned on the water for our garden which is only a few feet away. I come back and she is stomping on something in the grass and looks and me and says Yess!! I hurried over and yes it was the bug. But fortunately for the bug the grass was long so it lived and I took it and put it in the tree.