Butterfly Flutterby

Mimi and Grandpa got a very different gift for Logan's birthday which he has thoroughly enjoyed. They got him a butterfly pavilion. It was quite a cool process....

The caterpillars arrived in 2 cups - 5 caterpillars per cup and they were tiny! There was food in the cups for the caterpillars to survive on...which was super nice, because we didn't have to do a thing! (No clean up either!) Every day they grew quite a bit in size, enough for Logan to notice a difference when he checked on them in the morning. Eventually, each caterpillar hung itself on the lid of the cup and became a cocoon. After turning into the cocoon we transferred them into the butterfly pavilion so that they could become butterflies. Throughout this process we were truly blessed because each and every one of our butterflies survived the process and more importantly survived living in our house with two small boys. I can't imagine how those things felt when being man-handled by my boys in that springy and flimsy pavilion. Yesterday was D-day for our butterflies and we let them go into the wilderness. This was an excellent choice I thought since they would far prefer being outdoors than in the pavilion, right? Well, unfortunately for the butterflies, the skies opened up yet again and we received another few inches of rain today. Hopefully, hopefully, they survived??? If you want your own butterfly pavilion you can go to insectlore.com