Butterfly Garden...

Brayden got a butterfly garden from PaPa and MeMe for Christmas. You order the caterpillars from the company when you are ready to watch them grow and they ship them to you. We wanted it to be warm enough before we ordered them, so we got them in June and watched them grow from larvae to beautiful painted lady butterflies in a couple of weeks.

We hung the garden in the kitchen so that we could watch them each day.

After the butterflies hatched and we kept them in the garden for a week we decided it was time to set them free. He had a total of 4 hatch, but only 3 survived to be released. Unfortunately most of my pictures from setting them free turned out blurry. So bummed!

In celebration of setting them free we made butterfly cookies.

Can you tell which ones might be Brayden's? (Hint: He loves M&M's)

Afterwards we had lots of fireflies in the yard, so Sarah and Brayden started catching them and putting them in the empty butterfly garden. I think we got almost 20.

Fun summer nights.