More Butterflies and a Monkey

For those of you who knew Nana, you know that she loved butterflies. Well, if I ever really believed that she was now a butterfly it was the other day. I walked out of the house to find Owen and Dan in the driveway with a Monarch. If it had been one of the Painted Ladies that we released it wouldn't have been as surprising, but this was a whole other butterfly and it was flying around Owen like it was going to land on him. I've never seen a Monarch around our house and I've certainly never seen any butterfly so close to a crazy little boy. It was really amazing. It was perfect timing too because Owen had been very upset at the release of our second butterfly and this made him much happier. Needless to say, we drove up to Westford and got three more caterpillars on Tuesday. Here are some photos of the release of the second Painted Lady.





I promised you a monkey as well. Here she is...



I guess that gate won't hold up much longer. Any ideas?