Hearts the Butterfly

The boys named our butterfly soon after he emerged from his chrysalis. It was unanimous - His name would be Hearts ♥♥ We knew he would soon emerge as his chrysalis had turned black overnight so we set our container on the breakfast table. He actually came out during breakfast and we witnessed it. It happens so fast and this is the first butterfly that we had that we actually got to witness it emerge. It was beautiful!
We enjoyed him for a short time before releasing him. I had saved our study on butterflies waiting for his arrival. It was really nice doing schoolwork and diagramming a butterfly on paper with a real specimen to study.
Carson describing to Cameron about our chrysalis, "First it starts as an egg, then turns into the pupa which is the caterpillar, then it goes into the chrysalis and finally the adult butterfly comes out...not a kid butterfly, but an adult!"