random pictures...

Forget expensive butterfly kits

The kids have been playing with caterpillars that are yellow, black, and white for the past week then they started noticing chrysalis' hanging on trees, fences, and then one on our pineapple plant. These chrysalis' are green with shiny gold spots on them, when they turn black you can start to see the orange and black wings and you know it will just be a matter of hours before the are out. Trent spotted this one that had just hatched and was gnawing on it's empty shell. It was amazing to watch it up close since it wasn't afraid of us yet. We watched it flap it's wings a few times then it had two trial flights before it was off. Guess we will skip learning about butterflies when our homeschool curriculum tells us too. Butterfly metamorphosis, check. (By the way these pictures are in reverse order.)

Some husbands bring home the bacon. Mine brings home da fruit!

The fruit that grows here is amazing. We have to look up fruit online to figure out what you can eat and how to eat it. John has been bringing home huge mangoes, bananas, avocados, guava, passion fruit, starfruit, limes, and now all kinds of citrus and the bumpy green one is called a sugar apple. We were just told that we can go to this lady's "yard" (orchard) and pick whatever we want. So there is much research needed before picking more. John says there is even a cinnamon tree there. The fruit is definitely one reason why I chose Kauai and it's been so much fun trying it all with our kids. Sevan even requests guava, I have to confess that when she says guava it does sounds similar to how she says gecko so you definitely have to take location into deciphering her language.