This picture was taken around 10:45 am.  I brought him back inside so that I could still watch him but get some things done.  We were actually looking up centipedes on the internet (we caught one) when I looked and he was starting to emerge right around 12:21 pm.  I quickly got some video of him actually coming out of the chrysalis and then started snapping pictures. 

Here he is at 12:23.  Look how tiny Teeny's wings are and how huge his abdomen looks in comparison.

This next picture was taken at 12:30.  That shows you how fast they get straightened out.  Teeny is still very wet at this stage and we aren't touching him.  Him?  Yes!  He's a BOY!!  We were so excited to be able to see both male and female butterflies.  You can sort of see his scent glands from the underside.  The males use this to attract females for mating.

We then put him carefully back in the jar to let him dry himself off. About 2 hours later we had to leave to get our errands done.  But had to get his picture first.  Wonderful picture of the scent glands.

We put him on a flower so that we felt we could leave.  But he was still there almost 3 hours later.

What a wonderful experience.  I have never done anything so cool in all my years. I am now working on my notebook to chronicle our monarch journey.  Cameron is making a booklet about the life cycle of a butterfly that we printed off from Enchanted Learning. I also printed out a few other work sheets from there to help us study butterflies more closely.

Now we are just waiting for our tomato hornworm cocoons to hatch.  I'll blog about them later.