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I documented it the second time around. And for the record, I think the whole process is gross. We bought a little kit of caterpillars that comes with a habitat on Amazon. After you get your kit, you actually have to send away separately for the caterpillars since they are shipped live from the... farm?
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They start off little half inch bugs--and turn into massive huge GROSS caterpillars. Who fill their cup with poop. Yuck.
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Eventually they make little chrysalises and you transfer them to the net. And then they mysteriously break out. Out of these ten butterflies, we didn't catch a SINGLE on busting out. And we tried!
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You are supposed to feed them fruit or sugar water... and we really didn't take great care of them. You can see a dead one to the right of the bowl. Whoops.
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Letting them go the second time around was ADORABLE. For someone who was traumatized by it the first time, Finley didn't mind at all this time. And Braden--he loved it.
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No pants on B courtesy of potty training.
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This butterfly flew away and came back to land on Mama Monkey's head. Finley thought that was hilarious.
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And the BEST/longest part... here are three videos I took of them letting the butterflies go. I couldn't choose between them because Braden is pretty much chatting and being entertaining in all of them. And it's just so funny to hear him talk. Enjoy.
Can't watch - in a meeting - but good news I can hear Brady talk tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteWhat an experience! FR and I went to a Butterfly Festival at Powell Gardens. She was not as amused as Finley and Braden.
ReplyDeleteNext year she'll love it!
DeleteYou have some seriously cute kids! Those videos were adorable.
ReplyDeleteAnd I just hopped over here out of my Feedly to leave this comment and noticed your different design. Love it!
Yay thanks! I was proud of including Keaton in the header so quickly... :) Not near as fancy as your new design!
DeleteI had to run home for lunch, so I could watch the videos. So Darling and much much better outcome than last time!!!
ReplyDeleteI seriously want a transcript of those videos. Brady's commentary and Finley's "Mr. Snickers" crack me up..3,2,1 /3,2,1/3,2,1 and NeeNee the butterfly. The stuff of imagination.
ReplyDeleteOmg. I just laughed so loud about the dead butterfly that Mike asked me what the heck I was doing. And then I also explained PALT which caused me to laugh out loud a few minutes prior.
ReplyDeleteWe had those catepillar thingees when C was 4, too.
Come here little butterfly! Oh Braden's voice is so darn cute! Love the videos Rachel!!
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