The other day Nahan was sleeping in the swing. Alan had wrapped him up all tight. It was so cute, I thought I’d take a picture.

Click!

Crap.

And actually this wasn’t the other day, more like the other month.

Did I lose a day somehow? I swore my last post was yesterday. But, no, it was two days ago. HOW did that happen? Oh. I know. Blame it on the little man who whimpers and starts to wake every few hours through the night. Yep. Loss of sleep can impair one’s memory.

And why might my little guy be an unhappy sleeper? Maybe because my seven month old boy is working on pushing a tooth out. A seven month older, did I say? Yes! Which means:

Monthly family photo.

Yeah work that tooth out.

Then maybe mommy will be able to get some sleep.

Ok that isn’t the gross thing. I’m just preparing you for the butterflies ahead. They’re coming up after the next two pictures. You are forewarned.

Yes an older photo that was taken when the kids were sick. She’s no longer sick.

And neither is he.

Eeeeeew! Chrysalides. “So gross.” Those are the actual words Alan muttered as he transferred them into their habitat.

Ok. Sorry. No butterfly pictures today after all. Because, yes, we do have butterflies. And I did take pictures of them. But I also have a fussing Nathan so maybe I’ll gross you out some more tomorrow.

I love this abominable snow baby hat and booties. I have so much on my to craft list but I’m really tempted to make these next before Nathan gets too large. And especially since I’ve found my knitting joy again.

The other day I said we had butterflies. And, yes, we did. And whenever I think about them I start feeling itchy, imagining tiny little bug feet on me and it makes me scratch. So gross. Did you know that when they’re coming out there’s red blood like liquid? The paper that comes with them said it’s meconium. I remember reading it. But when I saw a little stain on the habitat I thought maybe Isabelle had spilled something on it. It wasn’t until later that I remembered it was meconium. EEEEEWWW!!

Ok, maybe it’s just me that gets grossed out. But just in case it’s not, here are some recent pages from my sketchbook to look at before you run into gross butterfly legs and butterfly eyes and arrgh I’m all itchy.

Ok. That’s it. No more sketch pages. Here comes the gross. It’s coming. Right now!! This picture is from the first day one of the butterflies came out of the chrysalis, back on the 18th. So, from when we got the caterpillars, less than a month to get butterflies.

Anyhoo as I was saying, we woke up and there was a butterfly flapping around. We missed it emerging. We thought, oh we’ll catch one of the other four but you know, we never did catch them coming out. We’d just wake up in the morning to new butterflies. And I snapped this picture from a distance. I didn’t want to get close to the gross flopping bug. It was the only time I opened the habitat to stick my camera in. I thought I’d do it again at some future date but by then there were more flopping bugs flapping about and there was NO WAY I was sticking my hand in there.

I skyped my sister and showed her this picture and she couldn’t even see the butterfly. She thought it was just part of the habitat. Ha ha ha!

It’s funny. The first time we saw the butterfly it had it’s wings closed. And we were like, “hey why isn’t it orange?”

But, duh! We obviously don’t know much about butterflies. Because when it opened it’s wings, orange!

I kept trying to take a good photo of the grossness. I finally managed one even though it was through plastic:

Buggy eyes. Furry body. I have a disgusted look on my face as I type this. And I’m scratching like a dog with fleas. Ok enough. I need to NOT think about butterflies before I scratch myself raw.

Go ahead. Click on the above picture to see it in all it’s grossness enlarged.