Will's First Pet (Sortof)

   I know many of you are blown away that I am actually doing a second post within a week from my last one!  I'm a little surprised myself, but got these pictures of Will that I thought were so cute and funny!
   Will lately has become obsessed with bugs!  You can't walk out the door without him dropping to his knees looking for bugs and then he constantly talks about what they are doing, such as going into the little homes or looking for food.  I personally think they are running for their lives because they are scared to death of him.  The poor roley poley's are really picked on by him and once they have rolled into a ball, Will loves to carry them around and roll them between his two little fingers.
   So a couple of weeks ago, I found a little kit where you could send away for caterpillars and then watch them go from caterpillars to chrysalides to butterflies.  I thought it would be so much fun for Will and not a lot of work for me, so it was a definitely win-win situation.  Once those caterpillars arrived in the mail, Will checked on them about 15 times a day to see if they were moving, eating, hanging upside down or whatever.  Then last Saturday, the caterpillars formed or made (not sure about the correct terminology) into their chrysalides.  This is where the challenge came in for me, because the flyer said it was very important for them not to be wiggled or moved a lot during this period of change for them, because Will would want to constantly take them around the house.  Thankfully or maybe miraculously, they survived!  On Saturday and Sunday morning, they emerged from there chrysalides.  Will loves these three butterflies more than they would probably like to be loved!  He is always wanting to feed them some sugar water and give them more flowers, and carry them around the house!  I am going to give him another day or two and then Grant and I think it would be good for them to be released.
This has been such a fun learning experience for Will.  There are a bunch of other types of kits you can get too.  Grant and I are thinking of getting him another one for his birthday in a couple of months.  You can get more information on all of them here.

Will obviously is so happy with his little butterflies!
He kept telling me, "They are such cute little fellas, mommy!"

Here he is feeding the butterflies sugar water with his little dropper.
I really hope you can't overfeed a butterfly! 

I thought this picture was hilarious because he kept clapping at them
and saying, "Come here little guys!" in a sweet, little voice.