Our house had 5 living creatures in it for most of the day yesterday instead of 4. When the kids and I were outside we found a caterpillar on our driveway and Lindsay was sold! She loved watching him move and get “smaller and bigger” and after awhile she asked if she could hold it. So, I got some grass to pick him up with and after holding him for a minute she asked if she could keep it. I thought to myself, “This could either be really awesome or totally disastrous” but decided that keeping it would be fine. So we went inside and showed daddy what we found and then went upstairs and rinsed out a jam jar, poked some hoes in the top, found some grass, leaves and a stick and put Mr. Caterpillar in the jar and closed the lid. She sat on the floor and just watched him crawl around for a little while but then all of a sudden it was lunch time and she was done. We went on our date and came home later than afternoon and looked in the jar and thought maybe he was dead because he wasn’t moving. We had come to terms with our poor little Caterpillars death, but then Lindsay said, “Maybe if we take him outside, he’ll wake up.” Jeff thought she was just in denial but it turns out she was right! They shook him out and away he crawled. Lindsay was so happy and was really okay with letting him go. It would have been neat if we could have watched him in his chrysalis and become a butterfly, but at the same time I’m relieved to not have to constantly feed him and take him everywhere. It was really fun to see the kids reaction to the caterpillar. Lindsay loves bugs but even Logan loved touching him and watching him. Gotta love the bugs!