A couple of weeks ago, the girls brought home a couple of monarch caterpillars (yes, we have them in Hawaii too, but no they don't migrate to Mexico....no need I guess). Unfortunately, Jacqui's caterpillar didn't even make it home...our friend accidentally stepped on it. Well at least we were able to watch one turn into a beautiful chrysalis and then a butterfly. The girls wanted to take pictures of it....

along with a resident skink (who dropped it's tail when being captured...




and the neighbor's cat, Shadow.