Do we all remember the caterpillar experience from this last spring? Here we go again…only this one has a long back story (sorry).
About a month ago Garrick got a bloody nose after falling (okay let’s be honest, Connor pushed him) off a chair. I grabbed a paper towel to clean him up and this lovely specimen was in the bloody mess:
Okay, it only got a little yelp out of me. (I’m pretty proud of the fact of how little worms and insects bug me these days.) I yelped for 2 reasons.
1. The thing was HUGE!!
2. I still don’t know if it was actually INSIDE MY BABY’S NOSE!!!!!
The only explanation I could come up with is this: We had a bunch of peppers from the garden sitting on the counter next to my paper towel roll. I “believe” the caterpillar was hiding out in the peppers, and migrated towards the paper towels and happened to get in the one I used to wipe my baby’s nose. Please, let’s just go along with this theory.
Anyway, we had the caterpillar sitting in a jar on the counter for the last few weeks. I honestly thought it was dead, since it turned brown a few days after we caught it. The boys insisted it was in a chrysalis. The poor thing got jostled around quite a bit as the boys tried to look at it. I thought there was no chance for it emerging.
Well, tonight I decided to just throw the thing out. Dan agreed that it looked hopeless. Go figure, I dump out the jar and there is now a moth sitting in the bottom of the jar.
Ugly little sucker and can you believe it: HE IS STILL ALIVE!! I tried to put him outside, and he flew back into the house. I am taking pity on him right now, and will give him tonight inside, then he better head out the door, otherwise it is a matter of starvation.
The boys were excited to see the moth. So there we go Sister D. Haden finally got to see his caterpillar life cycle. Only about 6 months late:)
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