The Butterfly Release

As part of homeschooling, we hatched butterflies for the second year. This year I went for the budget caterpillars to save a few bucks, which I regret as only half the butterflies made it from caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly. The girls, fortunately, didn't seem to notice and cared only about the butterflies that did hatch. This year the caterpillars also didn't all go through the same stages at the same time, so we had a couple butterflies that hatched almost two weeks ago and one that just hatched a couple days ago. I didn't want them to start laying butterfly eggs in our habitat and have us end up with hundreds of tiny caterpillars all over the place, so today was the day we decided to let them free.

The girls were a little sad to see them go, but I think the thrill of holding them and watching them fly away made up for it.

 BabySlimJim didn't really care. But he's cute and had fun on the slide.