well hello, leaver...

unusual name, huh? When we asked him what he wanted to name his new pet caterpillar, Eli had no problem landing on this one...Leaver. Of course, it's because he likes to eat leaves :-) Our neighbor, Mrs. Paula, finds these caterpillars in her flower gardens a lot and saved this one for E. We fixed him a nice new home and he's now hanging out in the kitchen window sill, praying that he'll survive the loud, sticky-fingered little boy, I'm sure ;-)

Check out E's faces...can you tell he was just a tish excited?