Caterpillars

The caterpillars have been out in full force at our house.  Levi easily finds 4-5 every time we go outside.  He loves them and I feel pretty bad for the poor souls since he tends to love them a little too much sometimes if you get my drift.  He found a bright green one the other day that he grew attached too.  When he came inside I noticed he had built this contraption on the porch and so I asked about it.  He enlightened me that this caterpillars was his best buddy and he didn't want it to get away and so he built this.  The caterpillars is inside the middle while pipe.  One end is closed by the chair and the other end is closed by the other pipe.  This way the caterpillar cannot get out.  Pretty ingenious for a 3 year old right!  Realizing he was going to kill all the caterpillars in our yard this way we set out to keep our caterpillars alive.

A trip to Wal-Mart = $6.
An excited kid with pet caterpillars = priceless.

We are hoping that they will build cocoons and we can watch them change into butterflies.  That is assuming that they live.  Somehow we've already managed to let one die in the one day we had them :(  Sorry little fella.  We are hoping he is in caterpillar heaven.  Hopefully none of our other friends will join him anytime soon.