new life part 2

 On Monday morning we checked our chrysallis before we headed out the door for the gym, but when we returned we discovered 4 of the butterflies had emerged. We watched all afternoon, but the last little one did not want to come out. While we were having our quiet reading time he decided to pop out too. Oh well, the girls were pround little mommies. LE insisted they begin their own adventures right away. We took them out to our front rose bushes and 3 were ready to leave our special cage. Two held back and were still not ready even when we took them out on their carnations. The girls were able to observe them eating with their special tongues, able to get a look at all 6 legs and 3 body parts. They saw how the butterfly collapses it wings at rest and the underside is camoflouged (a moth rests with wings flat). They also read the painted lady is a very delicious butterfly for birds, but b/c she has the markings similar to the poisonous monarch butterflies bird will not bother them.