Today we let Curious George go. We played with him before setting him free. He took a little while before flying away because he was on some watermelon. He was hungry, ’cause we did not feed him until we took him out. We were hoping he would stay longer. And he did 🙂 !
Author: Audrey
My New Butterfly
This is my new butterfly, Curious George. My cousin Joshua found him. We were at the fireworks and Joshua was down by the water where some milkweed was growing and he found a caterpillar. He brought it over. I did not know he found it until I came back to the blanket.
I was holding the caterpillar, ’cause we were looking for a cage for him. Then we found one.
Joshua went somewhere with his parents and his big brother. We got to babysit the caterpillar. Then when Joshua and his parents and big brother came back he was already in his chrysalis.
The first picture is when he is in his “J”. He is getting ready to get in his chrysalis. The next picture is when he is getting into his chrysalis. He is molting for the very last time.
He stays as a chrysalis for about a week. His chrysalis looks like it is turning black, but it is actually see through. Usually in the morning sometime, the butterfly will emerge. They can be very fast!
After their wings dry, we get to hold them! Then we let them go. Sometime we let them go the same day. With Christopher Robin it began to storm and pour down rain and rain so we kept him for another day. We got to keep Curious George a few days.
It looks like we may have two new butterflies tomorrow. I will let you know!
Caterpillar Update
We have moved the bigger caterpillars into a bigger cage (an aquarium with a screen). Right now we have one almost ready to emerge, eight new chrysalises, one caterpillar in a “J”, 7 “piggies”, and a bunch of little ones.
Caterpillar Zoo
We have a zoo of caterpillars! We have four chrysalises and around 18 caterpillars from just hatching out of eggs to almost ready to eat like pigs. (Momma won’t let me open them up to count right now!). Most of them have come from Oma’s house.
We only have one that did not come from Oma’s house. We found it down by the school when we were looking for milkweed. I don’t know why they are all at Oma’s house. I think it’s because they think Oma’s milkweed is much sweeter!
This is about our third year raising them. Mark is letting me take a lot of the responsibility this year and Momma said I am doing a good job. I learn a lot from taking care of them.
New Friend and Mantu
Uncle Kai and his family came down to visit us. They brought Uncle Kai’s cousin, Morsal. She lives far away. She lives in Holland. She knows how to cook Afgan food. I like it a lot! Mark is yelling behind me, “I like it lots and lots!”
Here is a recipe for Mantu that Morsal taught me to cook. It is the picture on the left. The rice is Kabli Pulau.
Fry some hamburger with diced onions, carrots (if you want), chopped garlic, salt and black pepper, cumin seed and Garam Masala. Taste and make sure it tastes good.
Drain the grease if needed and cool a little bit.
Using wonton wrappers, place a little meat in the middle of each wrapper. Use water to seal and bring up two opposite corners, then the two other corners to seal well. Make a lot!
Using a large steamer, steam the mantu in batches and eat warm!
To make the Mantu extra fancy and extra good, make a sauce for them. Cook yellow lentils and add tomato sauce and spices to taste. Use the sauce over the mantu and then pour natural yogurt over the top of that.
Christopher Robin
Our first butterfly emerged! Even though she is a girl, we call her Christopher Robin still. She emerged in the night before we could watch her.
Momma let me play with her a little bit before we let her free. We see her a lot still!
Hoping for more soon.
Happy Father’s Day
Here is a picture I drew for Daddy.
Happy Father’s Day!
Soon–A new Butterfly!
Yesterday Grandma and Grandpa came over and brought their dog, Princess. We were watching our caterpillar, because he was in a “J”. When Mommy came home, I told Mommy.
This morning there was Christopher Robin in a chrysalis! And nobody got to watch him turn into his chrysalis 🙁
Christopher Robin and Me
On Monday, we went to Oma’s house. Oma had a Monarch caterpillar. We found him on Oma’s milkweed plant. We named him Christopher Robin.
I like playing with him. He is almost 2 inches long!
Momma said he may turn into a chrysalis next week. Thank you Oma for giving him to us!
Birthday Surprise
Yesterday, we went to soccer and then we came home. Momma asked if Daddy could go shopping while she made dinner.
When we got home, Daddy asked if I wanted to go shopping with him. I said yes. Adrian wanted to go to. Daddy said that you got to go last time and it’s Audrey’s turn.
I hoped (and I thought) that we were going to get my ears pierced so I got an elastic and pulled my hair back. We went to Claire’s and we got my ears pierced!
Daddy said, “She wants her ears pierced!” The lady who worked there took some earrings that I could pick from. I picked some little diamond earrings. They are very very pretty. When I was looking at the earrings she said, “the older you are, the more it hurts”. I am glad I wasn’t a hundred when I got them done!
She washed her hands and put some gloves on. Then she cleaned my ears and she took a marker and marked my ears. She asked Daddy if it was even. Daddy said to move a little bit this way. We kept having to move where the mark was because she thought it was either her or the shape of my ears, but she could not get them to look right.
The last time she did it and it worked! Then she took a machine and Andrea said it was a big machine. She put it where the marker was and then she pushed the button and the earring pushed my ear and it hurted a little bit. Then it connected to the back. Then she did it again to my other ear.
We went shopping. Then we got home and surprised everybody. I was holding where my earrings were so Momma would not see and it would be a surprise.