Spring is here! Waking up to the sun shining in the bedroom window and the birds tweeting makes for such happy days. And now that all of our snow has melted here in the Midwest, Bear and I can head outside. This year, we’ve got plans to get our hands dirty while we fill up …
we are participating in the Virtual Book Club hosted by Toddler Approved. this month’s featured author is Lois Ehlert. we chose to read Waiting for Wings since we had just gotten 5 caterpillars to raise. this post is sort of a photojournal of our experiences raising butterflies. we raised a group of butterflies last year during a …
i recently posted on Bear and my journey to grow our own butterflies and our subsequent attempt to let them go. we were attached to one butterfly who was especially dear to us. his name was ginky (named by Bear). either when he was developing or when his wings were drying, they got folded and never unfurled. needless to say, without …
if you saw this post on growing our butterflies at our house. it was so amazing to watch their transformation from caterpillars to crysalids to butterflies. today it was finally warm enough to let them go. the first one “crazy man” was off in a few seconds to one of our big trees. three others sat …
i’ve always wanted a butTTeRfLY gaRDeN. so when Bear became interested in the life cycle of a caterpillar, i was so excited! i ordered the habitat off of amazon (see here). we had to send away for the caTeRpiLLaRS, plus $5 shipping. it took a little bit longer for them to arrive than i thought, …
