HA! This post really is about metamorphosis! Emma's bf Sylvia brought her a caterpillar after much searching on our own. I think we started looking to late. Anyway, we put it in a container and she changed his milkweed leaves everyday. He
truly was the very hungry caterpillar b/c he doubled in size! Then one day when we got up he was hanging upside down from the top of his cage. That afternoon there was a
chrysalis. How exciting! Everyday, she would run to check and see if he'd "hatched." Low and behold, today was the day! A new butterfly!
So excited!
How cool is it to hold it?
Colby got in on it too.
Then Emma took him out to the porch and let him go.
We then went to MFA where there was a Monarch butterfly and she was pretty sure he was following us!
How cool is it to hold it?
Colby got in on it too.
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umm...Lorn Lorn my butterfly hatched himself! ok, BYE!!
What a sweet voicemail to get form a great niece! :)
Love, Lauren
p.s. Thanks so much for the package, keeps me going toward that goal! plus it made me smile.
love it and that little girl! and i love colby too.:) and i am pretty sure he was following you too!
There's never a dull moment at your house is there. Your over there hatching butterflies and mutton busting. I feel like such a slacker.
I love that now everytime Emma sees a monarch butterfly she's going to think it's HER butterfly. So cute!
Did you know. . .
Monarchs migrate all the way down to Central Mexico, even from the farthest reaches of North America?! There is a place west of Mexico City where millions of monarchs migrate and cover every square inch of the area--so that the trees look orange and black from top to bottom, where they layer on top of one another in a state of hibernation from Nov through mid March.
And even more fascinating, once they lay their eggs, most never make it all the way home, but their children continue north to the place where their parents spent the summer. So, next summer when you find a monarch, you can tell Miss Emma it is her butterfly's baby, come back to meet her!!
(I know, huge dork, but we just learned about this in our zoology class and I found it fascinating!)
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