We went to the Butterfly Pavilion today. Ava freaking loves butterflies. Every time she sees a butterfly in a book or outside, she starts saying "butterfly, butterfly, butterfly". It's really quite sweet. This place is really cool. They have a room where the butterflies are flying around you. One actually landed on Todd and was hitchhiking around on his shirt.
I found it fascinating the immense amount of change a butterfly goes through in such a short period of time. They start out as an egg that is laid on a leaf. In a few weeks that egg turns into a caterpillar. That caterpillar eats his face off for a couple weeks and then creates a cocoon. They grow in that cocoon for a few weeks and become a beautiful butterfly. The sad thing is that these beautiful butterflies only live a few weeks. It's ironic that they spend a 3/4 of their lives trying to become a butterfly....something beautiful....and then only live a few more weeks. Anyway. Just made me think about how important it is to live each day and moment....because you never know how long you really have.
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