Our butterflies

Our dear friends, the Wooderson's, sent us a butterfly kit the first week we moved into our new house. It came in the mail and the kids thought is was so cool that bugs could come in the mail. I forgot to take pictures of the caterpillars, but they started out small and got nice and FAT! We watched them everyday and talked about the changes we saw. Yesterday, they finally turned into butterflies and today we let them go.

Giving their butterflies a little pep talk....

"Now, when we open the net just fly, OK."

The empty cocoons

Our butterflies were the perfect color......
orange and black for OSU!

Jake said he taught one little butterfly to do tricks.

It would walk through a hoop, which he made out of wire.
This little butterfly had a hard time flying, so Jake also decided

it liked the Liston's too much to fly away.

Paige wanted to hold a butterfly too,

but when it got a little to close to her face....

She.freaked.out

Ok, that's a little better. Just not toooo close.

This was such an amazing experience! J&P are already asking when we can get some more caterpillars. Thank you Wooderson's for such an amazing gift!!!!