Bye Bye Butterflies!:(

As he wiped the tears from his sweet brown eyes, I felt so sad for him. My tenderhearted 5 year old bid his new friends goodbye today.

For Christmas my awesome aunt Diane {she always gives great "learning" centered gifts} gave Ethan a butterfly kit. It came with a butterfly "home", and a few weeks ago we sent away for the caterpillars...

It was truly amazing {and kind of disgusting} how fast they grew! {I won't give away all of the details so you can get a kit a try it out for yourselves! It really is fun.}

And before we knew it they transformed into these beautiful butterflies!

He took each butterfly carefully out of their "home" and spend as much time as could talking to them and saying his heart felt good-byes. He had named his favorites Phineas and Ferb.


He chased them around the yard for a while, and then came in and told me that he knew how to get them back. He would dress as a butterfly and they would come back and find him.

I told him that we had to get ready to go to preschool so we'd have to look into that later. ;) Then my brave little man announced he would save his money and buy some more. What a loyal friend.

Farewell butterflies!