Butterflies!

For the girls birthday, my parents got them a butterfly cage. Since it was too cold to release butterflies in April, we waited until this summer to order our caterpillars. Grandma ordered them for us, and they arrived at our house in a little container complete with enough food to last until they went into their chrysalises.

After about five days, all five caterpillars formed chrysalises, and we transferred them to the cage. I can't remember how long it took, but out emerged five butterflies that we got to watch and care for for a few days before releasing them.

The girls loved feeding sugar water to the butterflies and had so much fun releasing them.

Harper ended up not wanting to hold the butterflies, but she liked watching them!