Im not going to lie...one of my favorite parts of summer is raising our little pet and setting it free. It starts mid august when we go search for milk weed leaves that have little teeny tiny caterpillar eggs on the back of them.
Its like finding gold in a bunch of weeds.
Then we bring it home, keep it wet and soon it hatches into a little caterpillar who then eats the milk weeds.
Unfortunately i didn't get a picture of mr fuzzy pants ( the catepillar that owen named). But soon after a few weeks, he gets bigger and bigger and then spins a cocoon.
Then that cocoon hatches after a week or so and out comes a beautiful butterfly. Here we are just minutes before setting our pet free. (don't mind Owens awesome 3 sizes too small t-rex costume).
And here's our baby free on its own out in the wild. tear.We all said what we loved about him before we set him free.
The boys loved it.
I loved it.
now i can check off that we have had a pet.
2 comments:
you are a grade A mom. Evie keeps asking me, "mom, let's go to the store and buy more kitties...sounds like a plan?" No. I don't think so. We need a butterfly.
HEY! Remember when we went to Disney land? We should do that again:)
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