Julianna's butterfly treehouse

We got Julianna a butterfly tree house from Toys 'R Us some time early August and we have really enjoyed it.  It is a great way for her to learn about the life cycle of the Painted Lady Butterfly.  With the treehouse came a mail-order form for 5 caterpillars.  The caterpillars came after a week, and we watched them grow fatter and fatter every day.  After a week, they turned into chrysalids...and then after a couple more weeks, we had 3 lovely butterflies inside the treehouse!  Julianna released the butterflies two days ago.  She didn't want to at first, but I told her they needed to find their mommy.  I knew they only had a life span of 20 days, and I really didn't want to have her see them die.  Here are some pictures from the day we released her precious little babies.

Getting ready to release her butterflies

Julianna named this butterfly "Igor". =)