Long Awaited Christmas Present!

I know Christmas ended almost a month ago, but Abbie has been waiting for her present to arrive in the mail and it finally did! You see my sister aka Aunt Summer always gives us really neat Christmas presents. You never quit know what to expect from Summer. I have a kitchen full of every gadget you could imagine. Many we didn’t even know existed, but leave it to summer to find it and buy it. Well this year Abbie got the live butterfly garden from her Aunt Summer. So a few weeks ago we mailed off for the baby caterpillars and they arrived yesterday in a nice little box. Abbie was thrilled and could not believe that she is now the proud owner of 5 baby caterpillars. She caries them everywhere and they even sleep with her. Thank goodness they are sealed in a bottle or she would probably have killed them by now.



So now the wait is on. The caterpillars will stay in the Larvae stage for the next week while they grow bigger. And believe me we have only had them 24 hours and they have already quadrupled in size. Then for the next 7-10 days they will live in their chrysalis and after that out will come 5 beautiful Butterflies.



Here is a pictures so you can see how the Caterpillars started I will update the site with pictures every few days so you can see the wonderful process of a Painted Lady Butterfly