Our Second Attempt at Keeping a Caterpillar

Many months ago we found a caterpillar scaling our sliding door, so we bottled him up and tried to keep him to show Evan the cocoon and hopefully a beautiful butterfly. Well, I got too anal and cleaned his bottle too much - there was poop everywhere; it looked nasty. But I think it stressed him out and he ended up dying.

Today we were at our neighbor's house and we came across another caterpillar. This is one of those super hairy ones. Our last one was pretty nondescript. You could almost mistake it for a worm, it was so plain. But this new caterpillar is quite the sight. Our neighbor and Evan decided to name him "Crawley" and we brought him home and made him a little house in a jar. We got a few kinds of leaves cause we don't know what he likes to eat, and hopefully we have better results this time around. I will resist the urge to clean... Ok, I'll TRY and resist the urge to clean.

So here's Evan with his new buddy, Crawley. We read books about caterpillars at naptime today: The Very Hungry Caterpillar and How Spider Saved Valentine's Day.