Butterflies!!!

Our big project for the month of May was our butterfly habitat. The boys loved watching their butterflies go from tiny, tiny caterpillars to really big caterpillars. Even though we read a ton of books about it, they really didn't understand the chrysalis part until after the butterflies emerged, 6 all together. The boys were so excited when they finally started to emerge! I wish I would have let them mate so we could watch the whole process again, but I didn't have the heart to let them live their whole (3 week) life in a cage....so we let them go. And they didn't go....it took a couple of days to get them to leave their home. It's great, now every time the boys see a butterfly, they think it is the one that we raised. Very cute.

WAITING...patiently.

The boys also found some robin's nests (you can see them in this pic) in our backyard. It is so incredible to look at what a tiny bird created. Dylan has to show them to all of his friends and reminds them to "be very careful, the bird worked very hard on this." Too cute.
Thinking about leaving....
Gone, sort of.