Butterflies

For Miles' birthday gift, his cousins sent him this caterpillar kit. I have helped in the kids classrooms when they've done these kits before but we've never done one of our own so it was incredibly exciting for our whole family to watch the caterpillars grow, build their chrysalis, and turn into butterflies. 

All the caterpillars survived! I was a little worried at first because I didn't pay attention to the packaging and it came a couple days  before his birthday so I just wrapped it up. For the previous kits I've seen, you send in a certificate to get your caterpillars but this package already had them in the box and I didn't even pay attention to all the notes on the box saying "handle with care," "live caterpillars inside" "open immediately" Anyway, we totally lucked out and they all grew just fine! 

Many of them flew off right away, but a couple butterflies stuck around and let us hold them and checked out our trees and grass.

I just loved how my rowdy boys treated this beautiful creature so delicately!

 Everyone got a chance to hold them, but Edwin decided he didn't want to hold it. He has a thing against holding live creatures. He just barely started holding worms IF he's wearing gloves because he likes to feed the worms to the chickens. So he opted for a wishy!

Anyway it was an awesome and enjoyable gift. And the whole family loved it and I'm pretty sure they were going to do this in kindergarten anyway so it was the perfect homeschooling activity too! Thank you Auntie Elizabeth for always being so thoughtful!