Articles that encourage toy-less, clutter-less gift giving are all the rage in the viral facebook world. And as a mom of two small kids with one more on the way and a relatively small house, boy, do I get it! Stuff for stuff's sake can absolutely smother you!
For Catherine's birthday, her daddy and I decided to give her a kit that allowed her to watch caterpillars grow into butterflies and she just loved that! We got the caterpillars in the mail shortly after her birthday. Within a few days, they had spun chrysalises and we transferred them to a netted butterfly habitat (um, well, cage). About a week later, within 48 hours, each of them broke out of their little spun homes and we had five pretty new butterflies to enjoy! We watched our butterflies for several days, partly because we had a cold snap and it was too cold to release them. We had fun feeding them sugar water and oranges and watching them dry their wings and learn to fly. The girls thought this was awesome! Seeing their excitement and seeing them learn was the best part!
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| Our five cocoons |
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| First one to bust out! |
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| Ready to set her new friends free |
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| All of them and their empty cocoons |
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| Caroline trying to convince them to come out of the habitat |
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| Catherine looking for one who flew away into a pile of leaves |
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