At Bonneyville, we were experimenting with waterfall and bridge pictures. I was walking on the bridge and found a woolly bear caterpillar on a pretty leaf. I was playing with him in different places. This is my favorite of all the pictures.
Author: Audrey
Second Soccer Game
I played in my second game yesterday. We drove to Fort Wayne in the rain.
Our windshield wiper broke when we were about four minutes away from our game. We called Reagen-a team member’s-mom. She said she was about a minute away from us. When we hung up, she pulled into the gas station where we were. She took me to my game. Mommy waited until it stopped raining enough to get the game. She made it just as we started.
The first half no one made any goals. The second half I was goalie for ten minutes. I got very confused because there where other lines for littler kids. The first ball kicked at me went in. The second ball, I got rid of. Being a goalie is a lot of hard work and I still have a lot to learn. I am glad my coach let me try it during a game.
The other team made another goal on Hannah. We lost 0-2. I felt like I made a lot of mistakes and the game was hard. I tried my best though. I will to ask my coach questions tonight over what I am confused at.
After the game we went to the Mitchell’s new house. I really enjoyed spending time with my friend Sarah.
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Yesterday a new alpaca was born. I hope you like these pictures of newborn Obe and his Mom, Ruby. He is the birthday twin of Chirpa. Megan thinks he is her birthday twin too, because we were celebrating her birthday when we got the phone call he was born.
Fall Soccer
At Andrea’s first soccer practice, I asked her coach if I could run with the girls. She said that I could also practice with them.
I practiced a few practices and then she told Mommy and Daddy that I was doing very good. She suggested that I practice with my age group that practiced at the same time as Andrea. Daddy liked the coach and said that I could.
After a couple weeks of practicing, Daddy asked how to sign me up for the team! I was able to play in Sunday afternoon’s game after a lot of different people’s hard work. I went to the game not sure that I could play because I needed a “playing card” and it sometimes takes a while to get one. I actually did not have a playing card, but someone had the right information on their phone, so I was could play!
Here is the rest of my schedule for the fall.
Sun Sept. 29 12:00 pm at FORT WAYNE SPORT CLUB #3
Fri Oct. 4 6:30 pm at NIBCO 5A
Sun Oct. 6 3:00 pm at NIBCO 5A
Sat Oct. 12 12:00 pm at NIBCO 5A
My Pets
Here are my paper pets.
Marker
17 September 2013
Marker
17 September 2013
Mice Catching Expert!
Colored Marker
16 Sept 2013
We went to go fill up the cat’s water. Holly was waiting for me at the door. I couldn’t find Paul. I first filled up the water and then went looking for him.
He was right outside the door. With a mouse. It was alive. He would let it go and then go chase it again. Holly ran after it too. I had never seen Holly catch anything before.
They are doing a very good job being barn cats and catching all the mice!
Sunflower
I took this picture. The sunflower was kind of dark. Momma showed me how to adjust the RAW file. Then we did a pretend a high definition effect.
I want to learn more about editing! I think the editing artist one is neater. I like how the background and the flower are really bright. I also like that you can see the design better.
Mystery
We have a mystery at our house!
After our caterpillars make their chrysalis, it appears that something gets inside the chrysalis and eats the forming butterfly. We don’t know what it is, or how it got there.
When I bring the caterpillars their food, I shake the leaves very very good and I check them for bugs or eggs. We rarely notice any bugs other than the caterpillars in the aquarium and we get rid of them as we see them.
Four days ago I found a mystery bug in our aquarium. I thought it just got in somehow. Then I found another one. Today we found another one! We were looking, and Momma found a chrysalis that was see through and we looked at it and discovered a hole in it! We think the mystery bug came out of that hole.
Do you know what type of bug this is? We want to learn how to keep them away from our butterfly chrysalis’s. We are hoping that these are the only ones and that we get some butterflies soon.
First Butterfly!
Meet Kitty! Megan named it. He is a Eastern Black Swallowtail. He is our first one to emerge!
I think he is a boy because the males have more yellow above the blue. Females have small yellow dots and more blue on their wings. We think when he closes his wings he is prettier than when his wings are open.
We let him free after playing with him for two days. He really liked the butterfly bush we put him on and ate for a long time. Monarchs usually eat a little and then fly up high into a tree.
I think we have seen him once since letting him go.
Eastern Black Swallowtail
It has been a bad year for Monarchs. I was only able to raise three from caterpillar stage. I did not find any eggs and saw very few butterflies. We are praying that next year is a great year for them again.
But, we are raising Eastern Black Swallowtails. When we got back from Colorado, Mark went to check our gardens. He said we had some caterpillars on our dill. We researched them and discovered they were Eastern Black Swallowtails.
We found out that they eat anything in the carrot family; like dill, Queen Anne’s Lace, carrots, fennel and parsley. We collected the big ones because the big ones looked like the pictures in our book. We researched the little ones to find out that they were the same caterpillar, they just change three times!
When we brought them in, we cut off as as little as we could from what they were eating, and started feeding them Queen Anne’s Lace. Momma wanted her dill and fennel for us to eat! They don’t eat as fast as Monarchs, but they eat as much.
Fourteen of them are chrysalises–we have two caterpillars left–but do not know when they will emerge. If they don’t emerge this fall, they will overwinter and emerge in late April or May. I want at least one to emerge soon. I hope to watch it emerge too.
