Rosetta

At school there is a tree in the playground, and if you are very lucky you can find a caterpillar on it. On wednesday Holly found one with the help of some older friends. She hid it in her tray at school, held it in her hand at assemble and finally raced out the doors at 3.30 to show me what she had found! Her teacher had no idea she had been hoarding it half the day, only her two besties!
She named her Rosetta, We made her a little house out of an old shoe box, cut a whole at the top and put cellophane over it as a viewing window. Holly was so excited and had it on her shirt or in her hand all night before bed. She woke Andrew up at the crack of dawn to show him (didn't go down too well!) and fed her leaves all morning.
Then the unthinkable happened, Harry was playing with the box, looking at her And accidentally knocked it over and poor little Rosetta the caterpillar fell through the crack in the deck!
Harry was so upset ( and scared!) he asked me to hold his hand while he told his big sister the tragic news.
Let's just say, there were LOTS of tears. Lest we forget .... The soldiers .... And Rosetta xx