For Christmas, Aunt Becka gave Abigail a butterfly home, where we could send away for
caterpillars and watch them grow, and release them when they became butterflies! It was quite the experience - Abigail and Maddie loved watching them move around and change - of course Maddie loved to shake up the cup... I was pleasantly surprised to see that they all survived! :-)
Well, on Valentine's Day, Ben, Nicole, Caleb, and Brady came to visit and we knew it was the perfect opportunity to release the butterflies! We did it in the pool cage so we would have a few extra minutes with them, before the flew away.
It was a good time! The girls loved seeing them up close and watching them fly around. No butterflies landed on shoulders (although that's exactly what Abigail kept asking if they would do...) but it was probably for the best... :-)
Not too long after we got them all out of their "home" Nate and Ben made sure they all made it safely out the pool doors. Which was definitely a good thing - b/c at one point during their brief stay with us - 2 sets of the butterflies were definitely "attached." It was impossible to get them apart... :-) Unfortunately for one -there were only 5 butterflies, so one poor guy was definitely the 5
th wheel :-)
But, needless to say, we did not need 100 little
caterpillars crawling around the pool cage! :-)
Good Times! :-)
(a little more help for Maddie)
They did a great job - will show the final product...eventually :-)
Just lovin' on my Maddie 
Abigail really liked icing her own cake - she was pretty serious about doing it herself!
and... when noone is looking - all hands in the icing...!!!
Papa did jump in there and help Maddie ice her cake - too sweet!
Little birds... LOL
we had a hard time keeping Madelyn's hands out of the icing...
Abigail's finished product!
Maddie's finished product (I helped a little) she let Mimi and Papa take it home to share with the other kiddos!
Well, on Valentine's Day, Ben, Nicole, Caleb, and Brady came to visit and we knew it was the perfect opportunity to release the butterflies! We did it in the pool cage so we would have a few extra minutes with them, before the flew away.
It was a good time! The girls loved seeing them up close and watching them fly around. No butterflies landed on shoulders (although that's exactly what Abigail kept asking if they would do...) but it was probably for the best... :-)
Not too long after we got them all out of their "home" Nate and Ben made sure they all made it safely out the pool doors. Which was definitely a good thing - b/c at one point during their brief stay with us - 2 sets of the butterflies were definitely "attached." It was impossible to get them apart... :-) Unfortunately for one -there were only 5 butterflies, so one poor guy was definitely the 5th wheel :-)
More to come on their visit... 
Bubbles...
Winding down...
