Because Nine Isn't Enough

Here is one of three new "pets" we have in our household. Thanks to our homeschool science co-op (and in addition to our dog, cat, five chickens, and two tadpoles), we are now the soon-to-be-proud parents of a polyphemus moth, a luna moth, and a spicebush swallowtail butterfly.

Of course, they're not very exciting now, but just wait a couple weeks. They're going to be awesome.

And the best part?! Unlike the two American Bullfrog tadpoles we got a couple weeks ago, we'll be able to release these once we're done with them. Hopefully the kids won't be watching if the newly-airborne creatures fly over the chicken coop and get eaten.

We're just crossing our fingers that these babies hatch before we are forced to take them with us on an upcoming camping trip. I wouldn't want to miss their emergence, but I also don't want to babysit them at a campground!