Last week  we were still hunting for asparagus when we found these:

Can you see it?  It's a monarch egg!  A few days later, the egg turned black and out hatched the tiniest catepillar you've ever seen!   Last night we went hunting again.  We're up to four catepillars and one egg, and very little asparagus.. Not that the asparagus has much to do with it, but I really like asparagus!

We're all pretty excited and we've raised catepillars for the last three years, but this  is the first year we've had eggs.   Rebecca doesn't remember the last few years, so this has been of special interest to her.   Today we are reading a life cycle book about butterflies.  Elizabeth is working on her own butterfly  book for our local "days" which is similar to a fair for the arts & crafts contest.  I found the cutest project for "Stained Window Butterflies" (and other projects) here:

http://www.butterflyschool.org/teacher/aandc.html