Butterfly Day!!

This past week we had 2 special days to enjoy. The first of those was a visit from the butterfly lady. Before that though I have some pictures of the kids acting out part of the Bible lesson for the week.

Kira as Joseph in the "beautiful" coat of many colors.
I had to improvise a bit and my Spiderman hoodie was the most colorful thing I had.

Emily, Benjamin, Jace, and Simon as Joseph's very angry jealous brothers.

Joseph was very frightened when his brothers went to throw him into the pit.

Three brothers plotting.

Stealing his coat and selling him to the traders.

Reuben returns to find that Joseph is gone.

We had a pretty great time retelling the Bible story in this way and the kids remembered it very well.

Finally, after waiting ALL DAY we got to go see the butterfly exhibits!

First up was learning about caterpillars and how they become butterflies.

Everyone was very excited when they got the chance to "pet" the caterpillars.

Then we each got to hold the cube of butterflies and look at them up close!

After that it was time to go upstairs to the butterfly tent where we each had a chance to go in and try to hold a butterfly on our finger!!!

Patiently waiting.

I even got to go in with our last group of girls and see them up close!

Some of our friends were not to keen on the idea of letting a butterfly sit on their finger but everyone was very kind and gentle in the tent being sure to not hurt any of God's wonderful creatures!

Butterflies make me smile because I think that we are so similar to them. We go through life trudging along like a little caterpillar, feeling so small and unimportant, then we meet Jesus and He shows us just how marvelous and wonderful we are simply because we belong to the King of Kings. Nothing is better than knowing that we are precious in His eyes.

We also had a special day on Thursday but I forgot to bring my camera home so I'll have to post about that one night this week. 

2 Corinthians 5:17 

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come."