Bugs, Bugs, and a Butterfly

We love bugs at our house. Ashley is even having a bug party for her birthday in a couple of weeks. And she is only inviting girls. It should be interesting. We have bugs living all over our house. Mostly in bug catchers and containers they decorate and cover with foil. Then we look on the internet to find what they eat and what they like to live with and we try to acommodate. We've had milk bugs, lady bugs, daddy long leg spiders, other spiders, and many other bugs I don't even recognize. But this past week, we finally caught a butterfly. It was very exciting. She caught it in a net and put it in my largest container and made a home for it. But we decided after a day that we'd better let it go free if it had a chance of surviving. Even Ashley realizes the mortality rates of bugs in our home are dismal. So here are some pictures of the event.

I love Justin watching the butterfly with complete interest. He loves his big sisters. They are very awesome to him. He loves to imitate everything they do. As you can tell from the picture with Katelyn, it is definately Ashley who is more the bug lover. Katelyn keeps her distance. Ashley tried to let the spider crawl on Katelyn so she could have her turn and Katelyn about had a heart attack. I told Ashley that she needed to ask if Katelyn wanted a turn before just assuming because I certainly don't want a turn letting it crawl on me. Good times.