Saturday, June 28, 2014

The Butterfly Catcher

One evening in early April, Hazel came running in exclaiming that she had caught a butterfly. We figured she meant that she'd caught a butterfly on Animal Crossing on her DS since she had been playing that a lot so she got the standard "oh good job - that's nice" response.

When she and Speed kept talking about it, I actually bothered to look up and realized that she actually had a butterfly trapped between two cups! Jacob helped her set up a little enclosure to see if she could keep it alive but it died after a couple of days. After some research, we're pretty sure it was a painted lady butterfly, which has a pretty short lifespan anyway, so Hazel wasn't too sad when we explained that the butterfly would've died soon no matter what she had done.



And here's the story in her own words:



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