Category: Nature

Butterflies!

I have Painted Lady Butterflies. They just came out of the chrysalises a couple of days ago; Audrey calls them crystals.

They are not real big. Momma told me they were mating last night, I got to watch them. I am waiting for eggs!

Here is the caterpillar/butterfly chart

  • 9 June received caterpillars in mail-all wiggle
  • 10 June Eating, growing, spinning “webs”
  • 11 June 18-20 mm long
  • 12 June approximately 30-35mm long! Lots of wiggling, more “web thinga majigys”
  • 13 June approximately 40 mm long
  • 14 June Making chrysalis’s upside down, 9:30 p.m all hanging upside down
  • 15 June Chrysalises completed
  • 17 June Chrysalises hardened, time to move to butterfly garden home
  • 21 June 3 Butterflies emerged overnight, I missed because I was at Reece and Cardin’s house. Messing up their house with “Meconium” (leftover tissue from developing into butterflies)
  • 21 June 2 Butterflies emerged before 10:30, I missed because I was at Scout Camp.
  • Put flowers in cage and put sugar water of fresher flowers to feed butterflies.
  • 24 June Butterflies mating, hoping for eggs!

They look nice. I would recommend growing butterflies.

Scout camp was fun. I got to make a rocket; it was fun. I got to earn beads doing activities; it was fun. I learned that the number one pollution in Elkhart, IN can be reduced (I don’t remember what it is but it was with the fish). I got four shots total in the middle (bulls eyes) in both times I shot the BB’s; it was fun. I got to play with Reece and Cardin, Cody and Lucas, and James; it was fun 🙂 !

It was fun, I want to do it next year.

p.s. My very favorite things were nature walks, the BB’s and seeing the fish.

Two stories about Caterpillars

This is from Audrey:

AudreyI love caterpillars. Sometimes we see a big caterpillar and sometimes we see little caterpillars. We have 5 caterpillars in our house. Soon they will turn into butterflies. I just know that! I always like caterpillars. I so much love caterpillars!

Our caterpillars are turning their crystals. They are spinning their web into crystals. They are almost ready to turn into crystals, they go into their crystals, and they will turn into butterflies.

I like to watch them because they are my favorite thing. Hee hee hee.

Oma taught me this. (I love you Oma!)

I have a fuzzy little caterpillar. He wiggled long, he wiggled short, he wiggled right to me. I put him in a covered box, “Don’t go away” I said. Then I peeked inside and saw a butterfly! I could never make one, if I even tried. Only God in heaven can make a butterfly!

Here is a story from Andrea.

AndreaI like caterpillars because they turn into butterflies. I like caterpillars because they hatch out of eggs. I like caterpillars because them make cocoons. I like caterpillars because I do like them.

I like pink butterflies because I like pink. I like pink, purple and blue. There are also orange ones and white ones. I saw one color white butterfly with orange stripes on the porch.

I also like butterflies because they are beautiful!

I also like butterflies because them fly around different states, like America, Pakistan, Florida, Indiana and South Africa. Them fly all over the States!

Keep you updated on our caterpillars.  They are starting to spin chrysalis.   They are all at the top their lid.

Quiston answered …

Bird nest picture taken by my grandpaOOOOPPPSSSS 🙂 ! “Quiston” is spelled “question”.

I asked this question the second blog ago.
Do you know what type of eggs this nest has in it?

… and the little(blue) one is a robin egg.Cowbird, thanks Wikipedia :)

The big! three times ones, which equals three, are “Cowbird” eggs. This is a Cowbird. The Momma Cowbirds “steal space” in what ever kind of bird nests that they can find pretty much to lay their eggs there.

The Cowbird babies hatch before the other ones and they are bigger. They steal most of the food that the other birds Momma brings. They get bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger…. and start another mischievous family.

Owen and Mzee

A great big wave started near India and all the way to Kenya (called a tsunami) December 26, 2004 (called Boxing Day). A lot of bad things happened; houses were broken, lots of people died and other bad things.

One very good thing missionaries and other people came to help. Another good thing is a happy story. We read a story called Owen & Mzee; The Language of Friendship, by Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff and Dr. Paula Kahumbu on our vacation. You can get the book from the Pierre Moran branch of the Elkhart Public Library.

The pictures are neat too, they go totally along with the story.

Owen is a baby hippo in the true story. His family did not survive the tsunami. But he was stranded on a coral reef. Finally someone named Owen tackled him so the other people could rescue him off the coral reef. He was as tall as Adrian and weighed 600 pounds! That’s a lot. That’s as much as Mommy and Daddy, and me and Adrian, and Audrey and Andrea and Maryam!  Which is a lot, right?

Mzee (mm-ZAY) is a 130 year old male Aldabra tortoise. An Aldabra tortoise is one of the largest tortoises in the world.

Owen and MzeeOwen and Mzee became friends. I am not sure how this happened, but they became really really really really really really… (and a hundred more reallys) good friends.

But now they are separated. Owen may hurt Mzee without intending too.

I want you to read the story, so I am not going to tell you anymore. It is interesting.

You can also look at what’s going on at Owen and Mzee’s website 🙂

Here’s a good one for kids about Owen and Mzee. It’s like a newspaper or newsletter.

My rating on this book is 500 out of 500. I like it a lot!

Can you tell me if you read the book? “Hey Mark, I read the book…!” (You can use other words if you want 🙂 )

Answer to worms…

(Momma is letting me write this myself today!)

Worm (Thanks Wikipedia!)

Trivia Question! How do you know which side of a worm is the head ?

Tickle it and See wich side lafs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reley seeeeeeee the bump on the worm piktcher ? That is the tale, did you know that?

 

SOooooo, the batom side wood lafe on the worm in the pikcther. “he he he he!!!!!!!!!!!!! Who did that ?”