butterflies

So, for her birthday, my oldest got a "butterfly pavillion". We mailed off for 5 caterpillars and watched them double in size every day for a week or so. They then turned into cocoons (which were sort of creepy looking! bleck.) and 10 days later, out came the beatiful butterflies!! :) It was a great "science experiment" for the girls to be a part of...and of course lent itself to some awesome analogies as we talked about how our hearts are ugly with sin before Jesus comes into our lives...and how He makes us into a new creation, just like the butterflies! :) It was even cooler that in the middle of this, I had the kids for the weekend and they came to my church and I found out afterwards that someone had brought a caterpillar around to each of the sunday school rooms to talk about that very topic!! I love how our God cares about even the small details like having the "science experiment" at home coinside with the same lesson at church! :)

Here are a couple pictures from the day the girls let the butterflies go.