How Appropriate

Lulu's class did a monarch butterfly project this semester and she has talked about it quite a bit. She came home talking about milkweed and caterpillars and chrysalises (chrysali?) throughout the past couple of months. Yesterday, when I picked her up from school, her teacher was holding a box. Lulu was dying to show me what was in it. She took me over to it and there was the biggest monarch I had ever seen. She told me it was a girl butterfly and I asked her how she knew. "Well, the boys have black spots under their wings and those are their scent glands." Impressed, I was. There were three other chrysalises waiting to hatch. Her teacher was all teary eyed and then it dawned on me why. My little Lulu is not unlike the butterfly project. When she started preschool she was just a toddler. She has grown so much over the last 2 and a half years and has learned tons. And the last week of school, that caterpillar hatched into a beautiful butterfly, just like my little Lulu who will be off to kindergarten. I gotta go get some Kleenex now. ps: wanna see a great caterpillar picture? Go to Jennifer's.