Category: Special Days

It was time to change my old picture.  I have changed a lot!  Momma said that I am growing too fast!

Today a new crea was born. When I went into the fields to see her (or him) it came right over to me.  The mom let me pet it.  I got to carry it into the barn.

She (or he) is smaller than the last one and LOTS lighter.

Auntie Kristi, you now have a “birthday twin”!  Happy Birthday!

 

 

P.S. We now know that it is a boy and his name is Chirpa. Guess what else?  I got to name it! When we walked in the barn to check on him, I saw a little note on a hay bale. There was a sticky note that said “Audrey gets to pick”. There were two boy names and two girl names I could chose from. He weighs 15.5 pounds! He is the lightest so far.

We let free two butterflies.  This one is Zee.  His sister was Chimp.

So far we had two die-one was a just born caterpillar and one just before emerging. We have one in a chrysalis, and released 7.

I think that is all that we will have for this year. They need to fly south.

Momma showed me how to set everything up, and I did it. Then I watched and waited until until it made it’s chrysalis. I took all the pictures. Momma helped me edit them. Enjoy!

Today two butterflies emerged.  They both are boys. The first one to emerge was George. The pictures are Curious emerging. So far we have three butterflies this year.

Last night I found our first 3 caterpillars. I  think it is because the weather was very dry we couldn’t find any. It has been starting to rain so the the bugs are coming out.

I put them in a container and did not put air holes in it. They are small and could crawl out of them.  Everyday I clean them and if they need food, feed them milkweed.

I named the smallest one Curious (he is about 5 mm long) and the medium one George (9 mm). Adrian named the biggest one Tigger (1 cm). They are too small to hold yet.

If you find any Monarch caterpillars, that you don’t want to raise, I would like them please!

We are celebrating my birthday today because Uncle Phil’s wedding was on my real birthday. We are pretending today is my real birthday!

I wanted a baby alpaca to be born on my birthday.  Today, our neighbor came home real quick to do something when the dogs started to bark and bark and bark. So she went out to see what was wrong. Alaska (the mom alpaca) was having her baby! Our neighbor got her gloves and had to help pull it out a little bit. The new baby is a BIG baby, she weighs 18.2 pounds! Mark thinks the last baby only weighed about 15 pounds! The vet came over after  and said everything is okay.

The neighbor called Mark and told him to come over after the baby was born. The rest of us followed soon after. So we got to see a few minute old baby!

I am excited! I am looking forward to seeing the clean baby later.

 

Yesterday was my birthday. A lot of things happened!

• It was Mr. Wood’s birthday. He is my friend’s daddy.
• Uncle Phil and Aunt Michelle’s wedding.
• Transit of Venus over the moon. We missed it. It won’t happen again for over 100 years!
• Momma surprised me with a giant Curious George Cookie.

We decided to celebrate my birthday next Tuesday because how do you do a birthday party on the same day as a wedding.  I also did not want it in the middle of the night. Momma said it gave me something to look forward to after the wedding.

During the pictures at the wedding, Momma brought in a box of cookies. I asked Momma if I could eat one now. She said yes. I opened the box and guess what I found!  A Curious George cookie that Momma made. Everyone wanted it!

 

 

Tonight Daddy and Momma let us stay up late so we could watch the moon move across the sun.  It is an annular lunar eclipse.  The moon is not as big as the sun, so it won’t completely cover it. We watched it on the computer 🙂

Let me know if you see it too!

 

We were eating outside and I  said to Mommy,   “I see a chipmunk!” Momma looked around and she could not find it. I pointed and Momma still could not see it. Then Andrea said she saw it. Then Momma looked again, and saw it.

She said if I wanted a picture of the silly chipmunk to go get the camera. I did and Mr. Chipmunk was still there.  Momma took another step and Mr. Chipmunk ran away!