Butterfly Miracle

It is an exciting day around here! One of our caterpillars FINALLY turned into a butterfly!

For Easter, Kayla received a Butterfly Garden kit from Grandpa and Grandma A. So the very next day we placed our order for LIVE Painted Lady caterpillars and a few days later they arrived in the mail. The four caterpillars were no bigger than Kayla's fingernail.

For a week and a half we left them alone but watched them eat and eat and grow and grow. They grew VERY quickly and VERY large! That in itself was pretty exciting to watch. After that time passed, the very large caterpillars crawled to the top of the container, attached themselves upside down to the the lid, and began to spin their chrysalis.

After all the caterpillars were inside their chrysalis, we carefully moved them from their container they arrived in by mail and into their butterfly net home. We pinned the paper they were attached to to the side of the wall just a few inches from the bottom. And we waited. 

 And waited. For another week and a half we waited and watched. These caterpillars, who did nothing but eat and grow for the first 10 days of their life, no longer ate another morsel. They did nothing but hang motionless, and inside that chrysalis we knew a miraculous metamorphosis was happening! 

Today we witnessed the birth of a butterfly! If you have never seen this transformation take place, or thought you never wanted to, you need to! 

 Our one little Painted Lady butterfly has emerged! He is spreading his wings to dry them and will hopefully soon find our tasty sugar-water mixture on the flowers. We hope to see his friends in the next few hours too. We will share more pictures as they all emerge and begin to explore their Butterfly Garden home. What a fun experiment this has been! This is one of the MOST amazing things in God's creation - the every day miracle of a caterpillar turning into a butterfly. God programmed each and every stage of a butterfly's life cycle, not by chance but by design. How can anyone NOT believe in Him?!

Genesis 1