DJ catches a butterfly

*NO, SERIOUSLY, HE CAUGHT ONE!*

Ok, imagine this: DJ bought a small insect catching set with his own money this past summer...he actually CATCHES a butterfly!
I rather expected it to be a waste of his hard earned money, being rather small and 'fragile' (for lack of a better term). The net couldn't have been any bigger at the opening than this plastic container you see, so his aim and speed had to have been exactly right to catch anything. However, within a few days, DJ comes racing into the house with this little plastic container and a butterfly frantically flittering around inside of it!! I quickly helped him put something in there so that the poor thing could land for a second (though, being a butterfly, it did NOT enjoy this small space, and therefore did NOT sit still very long).


*Can you say 'Proud'?*


*Inside are a crumpled piece of paper and a piece of our Butterfly Bush for it to land on*

*Butterfly under glass* (ok, so it's plastic)
DJ REALLY wanted to keep the butterfly as a pet. We talked about it for a bit and he understood that this fragile little butterfly needed to be outside and free. I gave DJ the camera to take as many pictures as he wanted of the butterfly, and we decided that about 15 minutes was enough time to keep it inside. We have at least 15 pictures of the butterfly, some with DJ, but mostly just of the butterfly! :)
I think that his excitement, and the experience of actually catching the butterfly, made the spending of his own money very much worthwhile!