Butterfly Hatchings!

On the last day of school Ken picked up three milkweed plants from Lukas Nursery that had a few baby caterpillars and tiny eggs on the leaves. Thomas was so excited to watch them turn into butterflies. We thought that the lizards would eat the baby caterpillars so we went back to the nursery and bought a special net-like-cage for them. On Father's Day we watched them make a chrysalis (which was sooooo cool!) and this weekend we had four butterflies to release. We are excited to go get more milkweed and watch the process all over again! Here are some pictures of Thomas releasing his new friends (which he named).