The butterfly

Our little Caterpillar is all grown up now. Of course it happened when I was gone. Thank goodness Paul and the boys were home and they watched the butterfly come out of its cocoon. I think Paul was just as amazed as the boys. If any of you get the chance to have a caterpillar do it. I swear its magic!!!

Egg #2

Today Jamie and Hannah brought over another egg. I think our last egg was a dud. I hope we didn't kill the little caterpillar/butterfly. Wyatt only got to it a few times, I realy try not to let Wyatt shake the little egg. We hope we will see some action with this new egg. So I say goodluck to us!!!

Update the update this morning I was going to take a picture of egg #2. I was shocked to see I have a tinny-inny caterpillar crawling on the leaf. Yeah we have made it pass the egg stage. Now we need get this bad boy to grow big so it can move to stage 3. I will keep you posted. I still say goodluck to us keeping him a live.

Caterpillar Egg

My cute friend Jamie and her even cuter daughter Hannah gave me a caterpillar egg for my birthday and so the boys could watch the whole cycle of a butterfly. Can you see the little gray dot on the leaf, that my friends, is our butterfly, well caterpillar first. I showed it to Wyatt this morning, he was kind of excited. I'm sure when it gets a little bigger than this (.) it will be more exciting for him.

A bunch of families in our neighborhood grow butterflies each summer. They find them in the egg form, then grow caterpillars. They feed these little guys lots of milk weed so the caterpillar can grow nice and big. The little creepy caterpillar will spin a cocoon for the whole family to watch. These families have all said that the best part is watching the butterfly coming out of the cocoon and drying off, lastly being able to set it free. So this summer I thought it will be fun to blog our Butterfly experience, so stay tuned.