Animal Kingdom

It has been a fun summer with animals around our house. We decided to order caterpillars and watch the metamorphosis to a butterfly. You girls LOVED this.......and so did I. Five of them came in this cup of food and ate and ate and ate every day for about 10 days. They doubled in size daily. Here they are eating............

We moved them to their tent once they crawled to the top of the jar and made their coccoons.

We only got to watch one push his way out of the cocoon--all the others chose to do it when we were sleeping or out. Here you are, Caitlyn, talking to one of the butterflies....

After watching them for about 3 days in the tent, we picked a pretty morning and let them go.

That same week, we were in the garage playing and we saw a momma bird come in (very close to us) with something in her mouth. We watched as she jumped up to a blue basket in our garage...........after she left, we quietly went over to check it out. There were five baby birds in a nest there. They must have been there for a few weeks without us ever knowing. Here is the nest AFTER the baby birds left it and begin to learn to fly.

I snapped a few pictures of the baby birds in our garage, learning to fly. It was such a neat experience, watching as they would attempt to go from one spot to another, sometimes falling down the walls, and hearing the mother bird call to them to try and keep up with where they were. Unfortunately, Max and Bailey were very interested in the birds, too!!!!

That very same week, I went out one morning to check on the birds and found this guy in the garage, too.

Of course, we still LOVE on our animals that are with us on a daily basis. Dandy is a sure joy to visitors and appreciates an apple or carrot when we have one for him.

Bailey and Max keep you girls laughing and give you both a resting place every now and then!!!