A funny little phenomenon started to occur after we returned from our summer vacations. We leave the windows open a lot to keep fresh air coming through our appartment and a few weeks ago we started to notice catipillars in our house. Not just a couple of them, but a ton! Jaxon was so excited and would play with them for hours upon hours. Everytime he came home from school, whether for his lunch break or in the afternoon he would always rush to play with his catipillars.
He would build houses for them out of blocks (preferably where baby Jonas couldn't break them)
Here is Jaxon holding one of the catipillars. It was all very fun, except for when one unwittingly would sleep with Jaxon and get smashed or Jonas would get his hands on them and pull them apart. But still, I think the little bit of nastiness was worth the hours of fun for Jaxon.
After awhile we started noticing cacoons all over the place and then before long, butterfliesstarted showing up in the house, mostly in Jaxon's room. A couple of days ago he came home from school to find 4 butterflies flying by his window! You can kind of see them in this picture.
Jaxon has learned to be very careful with butterflies and not touch their wings.
It has been really fun to have butterflies showing up all over our apartment, it's a little like living in a fairy tale!
He would build houses for them out of blocks (preferably where baby Jonas couldn't break them)
Here is Jaxon holding one of the catipillars. It was all very fun, except for when one unwittingly would sleep with Jaxon and get smashed or Jonas would get his hands on them and pull them apart. But still, I think the little bit of nastiness was worth the hours of fun for Jaxon.
After awhile we started noticing cacoons all over the place and then before long, butterfliesstarted showing up in the house, mostly in Jaxon's room. A couple of days ago he came home from school to find 4 butterflies flying by his window! You can kind of see them in this picture.
Jaxon has learned to be very careful with butterflies and not touch their wings.
It has been really fun to have butterflies showing up all over our apartment, it's a little like living in a fairy tale! 
Carter and Bryce would love all the butterflies. Nearly every day we catch frogs, lady bugs, lizards, etc.
RépondreSupprimerThe Eifel tower is the only place we didn't go in Paris. Thanks for the pictures! Now I feel like we've been there. :) We miss you guys!
It truly is like a fantasy land with butterflies in the house. Jaxon sure loves nature, especially when it's in his room! I went to a butterfly exhibit this summer in Connecticut. It's like the one they had in Texas. Anyways, it was awesome having all those butterflies landing on me. It was very peaceful there.
RépondreSupprimerJanet, that's so cool. I love how chil you are about having some random catepillars crawling around Jaxon's room. It's a cool science lesson for Jaxons, I'm sure. Thanks for posting.
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