I have been raising Monarchs since June 3 this year. There are not that many :( .
My first one I found June 3 and it was an egg. It hatched on my birthday, I named it Curious. When he was roaming, I found my first caterpillar. It was half way through its stages. Megan named it Stripes.
Curious made its chrysalis and when he emerged we were watching him. It was fun because I was watching him while I was eating breakfast. I heard a little crack and I looked up and I saw that he was pushing his chrysalis open. I ran and told Momma and we watched it. Stripes made his chrysalis the same morning.
Stripes eating after her surgery. She came through with “flying colors”.
I let Curious go at the park. I did a class about butterflies and since he was a butterfly, we let him go at the end of class.
Stripes enjoying her first flower.
When Stripes emerged, she was fine, but later her wing tore somehow in her cage. We looked on the internet to see how to fix it. We saw that we could put tape on it. I will try to write later how we did it. We got it fixed and let her go. She could still fly, but it was a little wobbly. If you see a butterfly, with a taped wing, it is probably Stripes!
I have one more in a chrysalis. I named it monkey. After vacation, we might look for more. We have seen Monarchs flying around again.
Early Saturday morning, we got up and ate breakfast. When I got up to get some more food, Megan walked in front of me. I stared at her! I asked her, “are you really Megan?” I thought Daddy was coming to get me, but they surprised me by bringing everybody.
The first day at camp was rainy. We had chapel. I think this year’s chapel was very creative because the pastor was teaching us how to be super heroes instead of villains. His sons and daughters were pretending to be the different people. The oldest one was Captain Kindness, the oldest daughter was Miss Meanie. The youngest son was Doofus Boy who obeyed Miss Meanie. The little girl was Little Nurse. When Captain Kindness ate the sin pill that Miss Meanie put in the zebra cake, he looked at his dad, the pastor, and said “can I leave now? I don’t feel like being nice today.” The whole week they were talking about cure for eating the sin pill.
When we came into the chapel, Doofus Boy was passing out the sin pill. We ate them and then they told us what they were. The pastor wouldn’t let us get the pill to make us like God again! We could eat the pills the nurse made to make us holy again. We learned that you really have to ask Jesus into your heart 🙂 .
For skit night, one of the skits had two people holding up a blanket. Then someone would toss a little object in to make it bigger. Like once someone had a little elastic that he through in saying “I want to make it bigger.” He threw in the elastic and out came a hula hoop! Then somebody came with her baby, and said “my poor baby, I keep dropping it.” Then she trips over a rock and it goes over the blanket. Out came a guy with a “diaper (a pair of pants) on.
I did not pass my swim test, but I able to go to the deep end if I had my councilor with me. I went off the high dive! I went canoing, paddle boarding. I went on the splash boats.
We played a game were the counselors would be in different spots with “weapons”. One was a pool noodle, a spongie, and squirt gun. Our job was to go as a cabin and get the things the counselors were guarding. I almost got one, but I got another one, if I had been just a little slower, I would not have made it.
Another game was like that one, but the counselors where disguising themselves or hiding. You tried to find them and if you did you got a little tag. A green tag meant you where the first person to find her. A copper one meant you would not get as much points as a green one. One of the counselors was hanging out with the teens. He had a green coat and a sleeping bag and a hat over his face. When I asked the teens if he had seen any junior counselors they said, maybe. I asked the guy if he was a counselor and everyone said “sh, he is trying to sleep.” But I knew he was a counselor because I saw his face, and I got a green tag. There is a golf course there, and a church you try to get your golf balls under it. My friend Casteel saw some camouflage pants and looked under the church and someone was hiding there so we got another green tag. The rest of them were copper tags.
I had so much fun at camp that I will have to tell you more later!
Yesterday, Momma wanted to see a fawn. Today we took a walk at the park. We saw a lot of turtles and a Great Blue Heron, and a buck. As we were looking at the Great Blue Heron, Momma pointed across the river in some trees. There was a fawn! I told Momma her wish was granted 🙂
I had the camera, so I took the pictures. This one was my best one before it ran away. We walked around to the other side of the water to look for it, but we could not find it.
Later in the week, we were driving around the park and we saw a doe with her fawn. We think it was the same fawn. I tried to get pictures, but it kept running. Mark got a few good pictures though.
Birthday Cookie from my friend EvieFlopsy and cupcakes
For my birthday we made big bubbles and glow in black light bubbles. Momma cut open some florescent markers and soaked the wick in about a half cup bubble solution. When it got dark, we blew the bubbles by a black light so we could see them.
Flopsy came over and brought me cupcakes. Grandma and Grandpa said when they pulled into the driveway, she started whimpering to get out and play. She knows where we live!
Daddy is trying something new for soccer. One of us will be on the left, another on the right. One will be defense and one in the center. He is changing it so we are not all together and it is harder for us to try to steal it from our team mates. Since Upward soccer rules are a little different than “normal” soccer, we have not played like that before. It is tough. Coach Daddy says we will practice a lot more during practices.
I don’t know if we did as well as we normally do. But we still won; 4 to 3.Â
Today we went to check on the new alpaca. Mrs. Beer was there. She said that she couldn’t find the kittens.  We found them under a workbench. We did not know she had kittens. Mrs. Beer said when they went to pick up an alpaca, they had new kittens and asked Mrs. Beer if they wanted some.
The one is nice and fluffy and the other one has stripes. They are sisters and they do not look alike at all! They are both shy, but the soft one is the shyest. The striped one will show Mark his claw, and Mark only likes cats that show him their claws. She purrs when you hold it. Megan can hold the striped one, the other one jumps out of her arms and hides.
Today we made some cherry cobblers for the neighbors and for our dessert. It was good! Here is the recipe in case you want to make it. It was very sweet, so you might want to cut down on the sugar.
Easy Cherry Cobbler Recipe
1/2 cup butter, melted
3/4 cup flour
1/4 cup almond flour (or use all flour)
3/4 cup sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1 cup milk
2 cups sour cherries, fresh or frozen
1/2 cup sugar
1 TBL flour
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Pour melted butter into a 9×13 inch pan. Combine the flour, almond flour, sugar and baking powder. Mix in the milk and then pour over butter in pan without stirring.
In a clean bowl combine cherries with 1/2 cup sugar and tablespoon of flour. Add to the top of batter without stirring.
Bake for about an hour until golden brown and a toothpick inserted into center comes out clean.
Serve warm with ice cream or whipped cream 🙂
**We did not follow the directions and doubled the recipe and it still fits into a 9 x 13 inch pan in case you need A LOT!**
I got a hair cut! I like it as it is. I like it different lengths so I can experiment with it. I want it long enough to put up, but not too long because I don’t like long hair for me.
I asked Jesus in my heart 5 Jan 2010. Andrea told me that she had asked Jesus into her heart. I did it all by myself after talking to her and then wrote a note and put it in my Bible. I told Mommy and Daddy later and they asked me some questions about what I did.
On my “birthday” I showed Momma the note. I had been reading my Bible and I reached the spot where Jesus was baptized. It said how all believers should be baptized to show others you believe in God.
I wrote Mommy a note asking if she would talk to me about it. She wrote me a note back and said she would love to. She talked to me about what it meant, then told me to talk to Daddy to make sure that I understood. On Wednesday I talked to Pastor about wanting to be baptized. He talked to me about it.
Later I told Andrea about being baptized. I read her Mark 1:9-14 and she wanted to be baptized too.
On Easter Sunday, we were baptized!
Pastor asked me 4 questions;
“Do you believe that our Lord Jesus Christ has brought you to faith in Him?”
“Do you believe that He died on the cross as complete payment for your sin, was buried and rose from the dead to declare you righteous before God?”
“Do you believe that you have been saved by the grace of God alone through faith alone in Jesus Christ alone?”
“Do you, this day, pledge to walk with Him in a new life in the Spirit?”
I was supposed to answer “yes”, but I said “hm hm” instead.
I asked some friends to come. They came to see me baptized :) I got to see some of my friends that I haven’t seen since before Christmas!
