Sprout and the butterfly

So I can only blog this because there is good news at the end, so don't freak out. Sprout was lost outside for 3 days. We believe one of the tours led through the house on Saturday accidentally left a door open and Sprout, spooked by the new folks, bolted. Pip and Vivie were very concerned. I looked all over the house and called for her outside to no avail. I checked under the porch and the back deck. Also no luck. So we were hoping she'd return on her own (but there are very very large raccoons around here ... yikes).

Today I was getting organized around the house and Pip yelled for me to come downstairs. He was yelling that he found Sprout! Sure enough, he was peering out the window and saw her poking her head up onto the porch from under the front deck. We all went out and convinced her to come back home.

PLUS -- we found this amazing butterfly. It didn't appear hurt, but it also wasn't wanting to fly. Having recently conquered worms, Pip decided to let the butterfly crawl on him too. We tried to get it to walk over to Vivie as well, but she was a little too jerky for it to work!