For Christmas, Isadora got a butterfly kit. We had to send away for the caterpillars. I wish I had taken a picture of the caterpillars. They came to us (5 of them) in a small jar full of food. They ate their way through the jar of food. Eventually, they crawled to the top of the jar and built cocoons for themselves. We moved the cocoons to their butterfly habitat.
Here they are in cocoons.
There is one missing because he fell down, but he was totally fine!
In about a week - 10 days, our first butterfly hatched!
We (aka Kirk) fed the butterflies flowers and sugar water. They survived just fine. Even though one might have broken his wing when he got stuck under the paper plate we put at the bottom of the habitat.
We loved having them around! So fun to watch them, maybe more for us than the kids, but really cool!
Today we said good-bye to our friendly butterflies.
Isa was scared of the butterflies. I did get some better pictures with my actual camera, not this iPhone business!
We had so much with the butterflies! I think we will send away for more for a round 2. :)
In other news, I got my rings stuck on my finger. Not my proudest moment. It went from this:
Long story short, he had to bring a ring cutter home from work and cut off my two gold bands he got me when each of the kids was born. Bummer...but I still have 10 fingers!
I know, this is such a "me" thing, right?