Watching the Cocoon

Our friends Gray and Cal introduced us to a new world when they told us you could order your own caterpillars on the internet. With a simple visit to Insect Lore, our five live caterpillars arrived in the mail in a small plastic cup.

For days we watched them diligently as they moved around the small container with the food included, and we resisted the temptation to open the lid out of fear that the bacteria would be introduced to the fragile creatures.  After about a week, they climbed to the top to transform into chrysalides!

When they had all latched on to the top and safely curled up into chrysalides, we gently transferred them on the paper liner of the lid to their butterfly garden.

We watched and waited to see a butterfly emerge.  Two of our butterflies popped out of their cocoons when we weren't watching, but the third one was born before our very eyes!  All four of us had a chance to witness a butterfly making its way into the world!!  I have to tell you it was a super cool thing for all of us! 

The butterfly information told us that of the five caterpillars, we should expect that at least three would emerge.  All five of ours are now flitting around in their garden!

Now we are waiting for the temperature to consistently be above 55 degrees before we can release them (right now we have a dusting of snow floating to the earth...) 

Well, for those of you wondering how this ties into our monthly adoption update, it is to share that we are still watching the cocoon.  That precious little beautiful babe is just waiting for the right time to fly into our lives! We know God's timing is absolutely perfect, so we are celebrating the fact that everything is right on schedule! (Yes, I am still a bit impatient with this perfect schedule, but I am aware of my need for personal development in this area!) 

Please continue to be in prayer for this whole process in that I am hopeful that somewhere in Moldova our file is right at the top of someone's pile of papers waiting to be reviewed, bringing us one day closer to hugs in Moldova!

Elliot and Gavin pause for a hug during a hike at the Ag Center

If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

2 Corinthians 5:17