Every second grade year the kiddos get to "grow" their own butterflies and then we as parents are lucky enough to get to stand around outside and watch them fly out of their classroom cages. It's.....interesting. This year the second grade all made up songs to sing about butterflies. I videoed Rhett singing. Well, I tried. He got video-taping-fright and pretty much forgot his words. Next time I'll just be there in person and record it in my little memory bank. He looked cute in his homemade butterfly t-shirt though!
Once we got outside and he got his butterfly trap (a tasty orange slice) and about 3.4 minutes went by with no luck, he was over it. He dropped his slice, ran around until he found a bud and then I was as good as chopped liver. I slowed him down for one second to break school rules to snap a picture (I'm such a rebel!) and then texted it to his bud's mom who had to work that day.
Butterfly release parties are so much more fun when you have a great bud to share it with!
