Thursday, January 5, 2012

A Caterpillar Story

About 3 months ago, the kids and I were outside and found this little guy.


Because he was so bright green and plump and just very cool, we decided to capture him and put him in a bug cage. The next morning, we woke up and found this.


He was making a cocoon. We watched for about 36 hours and he was all wrapped up. So, we thought we would wait and see him become a butterfly/moth. After about a week I just set the cage on top of Luke's dresser and forgot about it.

Today I went into Luke's room and found this:


The kids (and Jake and I) were SO excited! Our very own home science project.