Life Cycle of the Butterfly

I take the boys to a monthly nature class at a local park. Recently it was on the life cycle of the butterfly and even Simeon was able to recite, "egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly!" Soon thereafter, the girls found a caterpillar eating our parsley (which happens every year ;0). They captured him and kept him in our amazing Dollar Store bug box. And amazingly, he wasn't killed, stepped on, knocked over or anything else! They fed him lots of fresh parsley and he seemed quite content. They were then very excited to discover he had formed a chrysalis and we moved him to an better safe-spot (after I found the bug box out in the middle of the yard on a 90 degree day!) Anyway, a few days ago, I walked past the box and saw some movement. The kids were thrilled to see that he had come out of the chrysalis and was trying to get his wings to dry. They saw him stretch out his proboscis in preparation for drinking nectar, and flutter his wings to get them to dry. We then just sat at marveled at his beauty--his colors (their vibrancy and exquisite design). Then we marveled at how much he no longer looked like a caterpillar--unrecognizably so! And HOW did it happen in that squished up space of the chrysalis? Where did all his caterpillar legs go to? How did he have a single fat body, and now has a 3-part body? What about his eyes--from simple to compound? It was really, really amazing to marvel at the transformation which God designed for the humble parsley-eating caterpillar.We looked up his species on the computer. As I was looking, Abigail said, "He must be rare because he's so beautiful." I found it. Common Eastern Swallowtail. We concluded there is nothing "common" about God's creation!