Butterfly Update

The boys were surprised and excited last night when they got home from karate and saw that we had five butterflies. Todd opened the side of their pavilion to set a plate inside to hold their sugar water saturated paper towels, which will be their food source. All of a sudden, a butterfly escaped and started flying around the room. You should have heard us all yelling at him, "Catch it, but don't touch the wings!!!" Todd gave me a look like, "Are you serious, how am I supposed to do that?" Anyway, in a few seconds, Todd was able to capture it in his cupped hands and return it to the pavilion. No harm done; what a great dad!

We all got another surprise this morning when we woke up and all ten caterpillars had become butterflies. They are gorgeous. Now I just have to convince Evan that we should set them free. I feel sorry for them being all cooped up.