Butterfly Release

As I said in a previous post, we ordered a butterfly kit and it arrived during Elijah's last week of school.  Yet unfortunately, we forgot about our Disney trip when we placed the order.  We got to watch the caterpillars eat, grow, shed their skin, eat, grow, shed their skin and finally build their chrysalises.  But, when we left for Disney, none had turned into butterflies yet.  Fortunately, as usual, Bapa and Dendi took care of Kodi and our plants while we were gone, and they agreed to add butterfly duty to their roster of jobs.  As we expected, all five butterflies emerged from their chrysalises while we were in Disney.  But thankfully they were so well taken care of that they survived until we got back and we were able to release them.  Both Elijah and Keira enjoyed participating in the butterfly release, although it was slightly anti-climactic as the butterflies seemed perfectly content to stay in their cage.

In the end, one of the butterflies was so reticent about flying out of his safe place that Scottie had to flatten the cage for encouragement.