Caterpillar

One sunny morning as I was backing out of the driveway to take my 2 year old to daycare, she pointed at the window and said, "caterpillar".

I replied, "Oh, do you see a caterpillar honey?"

Isn't that cute I thought to myself.

But where is the caterpillar? I turned to look over my shoulder at the rear passenger side window beside her but I saw nothing.

"Caterpillar!", she happily exclaimed.

I tried to turn and look again but realizing that I had to keep my eyes on the road I said, "Where honey? Is it on the window or did it go away?".

But she just pointed at the window and again said, "Caterpillar!".

After a short drive, we arrived at her daycare and I couldn't wait to get out of the car and see where this caterpillar had crawled off to.

I approached her door but saw nothing.

As I was getting her out of her car seat I told her, "I think the caterpillar must have fallen off or blew away."

Then just as I lifted her into my arms she looked at me and pointed to the sky and said, "Caterpillar!"

I looked up and sure enough, there were chains of wispy white cirrus clouds across the bright blue sky.

"Oh sweetheart!", I said.

"Look at that. You're right. I see the caterpillars too."