so for christmas we (santa) got clayton a butterfly habitat.  you send for your catepillar larvae and watch the whole process from beginning to well i suppose the end at some point.  we observed the catepillars growing and feeding and eventually forming individual chrysali, which might i add was rather fascinating even from a 30 somethings point of view!  it took a good 10 days before the butterflies began to emerge from each chrysalis, HOW COOL!  we now have 5 lady monarch butterflies! 

oh, and on a side note, the first shipment of catepillars were over a week late so we had new ones shipped out!  so at this point, the catepillars are 1-2 days shy of forming their chrysali! 

what a fun aspect of life to share with the kids!

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