My long and depressing career as an unsuccessful (jinxed?) caterpillar farmer has come to an end!

Behold two of my babies:

One of them came from this:

I'll leave it to you to figure-out which one. 

Shortly afterward (I kept going outside to look every 5-10 minutes....the kids were ridiculing me as usual.  But I had the last laugh!):

The same hour, we had another blessed event:

This one fell right out of the chyrsalis, but began to climb-up again to dry its wings:

So then I go inside, triumphant, and spot THIS outside my kitchen window:

I run out with my trusty camera, while the kids stay inside to watch the event:

Is that not the best picture ever?!!

The next moment, he plummets to the ground where I snap this picture:

Our emergent butterfly is on the left..........and I notice this one on the right!  It was a prolific morning!

Unfortunately, only the one of the right made it.  But altogether, we had 6 hatched monarchs and 4 of them lived!

In fact, I saw one flying around the next day and snapped this picture of it in my neighbor's tree (yes, I'm pathetic....what's it to ya?):

So, in conclusion, my persistence has paid off, and my whole family must eat their words (she said, somewhat uncharitably....)!