A boy and his...butterfly?

Last fall a neighbor gave us two caterpillars from her garden which then made their cocoons. One became a butterfly at the end of fall, but it was too cold for the other one. We put it in the refrigerator, (to protect it from freezing freeze to death over the cold winter.). I had little faith that it would survive,  (I had actually thought he probably died from the cold prior to putting it into the refrigerator) but we took it out about a week ago. Today it emerged from its cocoon.  Asher is thrilled. 

Thor was very interested as well!

Asher showed his affection by trying to feed the butterfly- we were going to feed it to the juice from a raspberry And a blackberry, but in squashing them they got on his hands, and he figured that perhaps the butterfly would like to eat it directly from his hands.

Kiera was taking a (rare!) nap when we first found that the butterfly had hatched, but she was quite pleased as well.