Caterpillars, Chrysalides, Butterflies..Oh my!

For Easter my sweet Aunt Lou sent a card to Zachary. On the return address it had a monarch butterfly on it. Zachary said, "I sure hope there is a butterfly inside." Well there wasn't a butterfly in the card but Aunt Lou sent a check for Zachary. Which I might add is SUPER SWEET! Thank you Aunt Lou! Usually I have Zachary place any money he receives from his birthday or special occasions in his MO 529 college account. This time I let him take his money to Toys R Us. We found this butterfly habitat with a mail-in card for caterpillars. It was perfect and just 6 cents more than his check. He was so happy. However a little sad when we got home and the caterpillars were not in the box. That day I ordered the caterpillars online and we received them 5 days later. I wish I would have taken a picture of them but I forgot. They were long and skinny. Within 7 days they had used silk to spin them self into a Chrysalides (or cocoon). We then placed them in their habitat and now we are waiting for the Pretty Lady Monarch's to "hatch". It's be the best project for Zachary. He can't wait to check on his "babies" every day. It works out perfect because their are 5 of them. I'll post more after they come out of their chrysalide. Thanks again Aunt Lou!

**The one picture the habitat is hanging from our kitchen light.  They have to be kept safe so this was the best place for them to be unharmed.

On Tuesday of this week 2 of Zachary's butterflies came out of their "shell". Then on Wednesday the other 3 hatched.  They have the same birthday as cousin Jerrytt.  I will have to post pictures of the beautiful butterflies...but my camera is at the hospital so I will do that later.