Hungry Hungry

CATERPILLARS!

We have had a science experiment going on since mid March in our house.

Santa got the kids a caterpillar kit for Christmas so,

We recieved this cup of TINY TINY caterpillars in the mail & I thought they were all dead :)

They were not much bigger than an ant.

But they SERIOUSLY GREW!! Every morning they would double in size, it was starting to freak me out!

Im suprised they even survived the many drops to the floor when this little man tried to 'shake them' or love them too much.

I was kinda jealous of their "lifestyle"....eat and eat and eat....then wrap up in a cacoon and just sleep until you had wings :)

I guess I kinda have that life right now....eat and eat and eat...and one day pop out a baby hahha !!

After a couple weeks of eating...April 2nd...they Magically appeared....

We had 5 butterflys finally come out of thier cacoons and we fed them oranges and watched them try to fly and hang out for about a week.....

And last Thursday night we RELEASED THEM FROM THIER CAGE!!!

A couple hung around and let the kids hold them...and the rest instantly flew up and out of town!

We almost had a Discovery channel episode go on...as soon as we opened up the netting I swear EVERY SPARROW in the neighborhood was up on our wall looking around..how did they know!?

We didnt see any casualties lucky-

Hope the butterflys are loving life out in the free world without the torture of loving kids!