Yes, this is our newest member of our family. I mean WAS the newest member. He's well on his way to Mexico by now. Considering he left last Friday he's probably up to Manning by now? Maybe even Woodbury? We had this caterpillar experiment we had to do for Jace's Science class this upcoming fall. We got a couple caterpillars from his science teacher to be a couple of weeks ago. Our goal was to hopefully get one in a chrysalis/cocoon (whatever!) by the time we went on our mini trip north. We had heard they don't travel well and we really didn't know if we could get any caterpillar babysitters in a pinch. We already had to bike a mile or so to cut milkweed out of someones yard. One time we went out in a storm by night hoping we didn't get busted. Saul formed his cocoon the day before we left. Yes! We left milkweed for his pal in there hoping he would make it but he just wasn't ready. He was upside down when we got home much to our science teachers dismay. She's very serious about bugs. Sorry, God's created insects.
We checked daily to see if our butterfly was going to.....hatch? On about the 10th day I welcomed Paul at 8am in butterfly juice. I called Jace's teacher to see what had to be done being I don't know when he was born. She gave me instructions to bring him to a pine tree in my yard so he could hang and dry his wings. There were all kinds of rules and we checked on him frequently. Eventually his wings were dry and he went on his way to Mexico to preach the Word.
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