Project Butterfly

Two weeks ago, the mailman delivered a butterfly kit, which Savannah was very excited about. We started out with 6 baby caterpillars who we watched for 7 days before they turned into chrysalis (cocoons, essentially). Mommy and Savannah were fascinated watching them. When they changed they all crawled to the top of their jar, hung in a J shape, and started shaking. You could literally see them changing as you watched them. Once they were in chrysalis form, they sat for 8 days in their butterfly house. This weekend we "hatched" six painted lady butterflies. This morning Savannah decided it was time to let the butterflies free, so we released them this morning. That was probably a good idea because Smidgey had discovered them flying around their house and was trying to get to them. I could barely get her to look at the camera this morning...she couldn't take her eyes off the butterflies. We hope to see them around our yard. What a neat little project.