Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Saturday, August 17, 2013
Byron's Alphabet
Byron just finished up a six week pre-k program this summer and has turned out a 1,000 times more prepared for Kindergarten than even we could have ever imagined. He's gone from being very unsure of his ABC's to knowing the alphabet song, knowing all the sounds and knowing practically the whole alphabet upper and lowercase! Not only that, but he's excited about it. He just picks up a crayon or marker without being asked to to constantly write letters randomly on paper. 'Course we support this addiction with sidewalk chalk.
I didn't know whether to be upset or proud of this crayon signature underneath the kitchen table!
The Life of a Caterpillar
Back in June I discovered this fat little caterpillar firmly attached to a carrot leaf. He really didn't want to be removed, going so far to rear up and sprout little horns when I disturbed him. Just seemed to be happy eating my carrot leaves. The boys and M and I brought him inside in the kids' bug cage and with a stick and plenty of carrot leaves we discovered he (or she...) was a black swallowtail butterfly caterpillar. He lived in the cage for a few days and then seemed to start shriveling up pretty quickly. His body mass went from fat to gaunt in a day or two and before you knew it, we thought he was dead. Hanging from the stick. Well, it turns out that he didn't spin a cocoon as we thought he would, but had just hardened his outer skin into a chrysalis. In about two weeks I was startled one morning by a beautiful butterfly inside the cage. We sent him or her out to enjoy the world. Pretty cool!
Garden 2013
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