Hungry Hungry Caterpillar!!

While shopping for Easter goodies for the kiddos awhile ago, I came across this "Live Butterfly Garden"!! You can actually order caterpillar larvae in the mail and you watch them grow into caterpillars, cocoons and eventually into butterflies!! I was so excited about this because Jane was quite literally deathly afraid of bugs and I thought that if she could watch and observe some bugs and see how cool they are, she might not be so crazy about them anymore!! It TOTALLY worked. Jane thought her caterpillar babies were the coolest thing in the world...actually the whole process had us all really fascinated :)

Here's Jane with her brand new caterpillar babies!!
Every day we would watch them grow and see how they would change! They grew SO quickly!
I know it looks kinda gross...but here are the caterpillars all grown up and preparing to turn into "Chrysalids" as we learned they were called. It was absolutely incredible to watch!!
When the "chrysalids" are formed you put them into this little netted home and wait for them to come out as butterflies. Jane was so excited every day to see if the butterflies had come out yet!! Once they did we got to feed them and watch them eat... this was also amazing to watch. And eventually, we got to let them go:)
Here's one of our butterfly friends flying away. Notice how close Jane is to it as it flies away...she was totally brave!!!
There she is on the house next to us, saying goodbye!!
Even Beckham (with his Buddha belly...love it) loved watching the butterflies grow. He laughed SO hard watching them fly around!
Here's the last one flying away!! It was such a fun and cool science experiment that we did as a family. We all really learned A LOT about butterflies and best of all, they helped Jane get over her fear of bugs!!
Thanks little butterfly friends for the fun!!