Catching Butterflies

On Wednesday before we left for St. George, AJ finally caught a butterfly. We have a very large "butterfly bush" in the front yard and she has spent quite a lot of time trying . I thought these pics were very reminiscent of summer. Kids catching butterflies.

AJ put a slice of apple in the jar for the butterfly to eat and (somewhat surprisingly) is survived the night and she let it go the next day. It flew off quite unperturbed. But there is more to the story; later that day AJ went out to catch butterflies again, and she caught one. While we were transferring it to the jar I noticed a unique tear in the butterfly's wing and it turned out she had re-caught the same butterfly!