At last!

Yes I have finally got to do my blog again and I was starting to think it was never going to be written down. A lot has happened with our butterflies and here is just the best bits.
All the week the caterpillers had been eating and eating and they was growing so fast until they was really really fat

then last saturday when I tried to get my friend Nick to help me write about it before and he was too flipping lazy the caterpillers started to change and we nearly missed it but my friend Helen was obsessed and kept a close watch and it was just as well because we saw they all did a letter "J" first and hung upside down from the ceiling. Then their heads splitted open! We watched them and it was amazing because they wriggled about and their skin all got scrunched up at the top and they was turned into a chrysalis! They did not have any feet any more or eyes or heads or nothing and was just a browny shell thing and they also did poo out a little red blob too. They could still wriggle about though and eventually most of them looked like this and the skinny bit fell off completely

Two of the caterpillers was a bit slower than the other three and one was making a right nuisance and kept bothering the first ones that had already started to turn and they all wriggled and thumped him and he was trying to hang off of them and have a ride I think and using two of them as a swing. But in the end he stopped and changed as well until eventually they all had all done it and calmed down for a rest and it was time for them to go in their next house which is like a meshy thing

My friend Helen did get them out then and pinned them inside

but not too high up because they still wriggle sometimes and they can fall off apparently and it was just as well because during the night one of them did!

So this weekend we had started to think they was going to sleep forever and my friend Helen was starting to have nightmares about giant atomic moth things that was part owl and part robot and was hatching out and my friend Nick was shouting at her saying "quick get a photo for Bun's blog!" but anyway then this morning my friend Helen had a look and they was still in their shells but when my friend Nick got up for a wee he saw that one had already come out! We was very surprised but then my friend Helen watched carefully until another one started to come out and so we saw it happen from the start and it was so quick really but still it was very interesting to see. They split open at the head end again and along the back and then they wriggled out but it was a bit harder this time because now they had got some legs back and also wings of course which was all scrumpled and I thought they looked like me when I wake up and I have got bed ears and they was a bit wobbly too

but they soon made their wings straight and stiff and their antennas too and then they have to spend some time making their tongues go from two bits to one bit and it can curl up as well. So now there is three out already and we think that the others will come out tomorrow and my friend Helen has put some sugar water stuff on a tissue in the cage thing with them and also she has gone out and bought them an orange to eat which they do like apparently. They are called Painted Ladies

They have made the inside look a bit like CSI though because they have to squirt out some sort of stuff that is like blood and their are big blobs of it everywhere now. Hopefully tomorrow the weather will pick up a bit because once they are all out and done their stretching and stuff and exercised their wings it will be time to let them go into the garden and they can fly away and that will be the best part I think.

In other news, my friend Helen has spent all yesterday fiddling with the carrot box that she got her brother to make because it was a bit too big for where it is going in the garden and my friend Nick was being rotten and would not help but she did it in the end and now we are ready to plant them at last!