Butterflies

Well, today I took my 5 year old on a field trip with her preschool class to the Franklin Park Conservatory's butterfly exhibit. It was really fun. I also took my older daughter on this same field trip 3 years ago. She had a fun time and brought home a caterpillar (which she appropriately named "caterpillar"). We will put it into a shoe box once it forms its chrysalis and watch it transform into a butterfly. Then we will let it go. She learned some very interesting facts about butterflies today. For example, did you know that if a human baby were to eat comparably as much as a baby caterpillar, that by the time it was one month old, it would be the size of a bus? Wow! That's a lot of eatin'! Maybe I should have been born a caterpillar???!