A couple of birds moved into our tree. Ellie chose what color the birds would be. As you can see, she chose yellow. She probably chose white first, but then I told her we weren’t going to have white birds, at which point she selected yellow. Since I don’t have much to say about The [...]
We’ve had a little…or a lot…of computer problems. But it seems we’re back up and running. Hooray! During butterfly week we made these fun and easy fluttery butterflies: So simple. We used medicine droppers to drip watered-down food coloring onto napkins. Then I tied up the middle with a bread tie. Thanks to my friend Nevada [...]
After we put up the cocoons, Ellie started asking regularly if they were ready to be opened. The answer she regularly received was, “No dear, the cocoons need a little more time before they are ready.” What I didn’t say was that I still hadn’t changed the caterpillars into butterflies. Ha! Finally, the guilt was [...]
Our caterpillars are now in their very sophisticated cocoons created from tissues and, my favorite, packing tape. I had to make the Little Wrecking Ball his own dummy cocoon that he can stick on and off the tree. Otherwise he was threatening to rip the whole thing down—despite my lamination-by-packing-tape protection—in his attempts to get [...]
A little bit ago a tree “grew” in our apartment. And then caterpillars came to live in the tree. They’ve been eating holes in our leaves. Ellie has been super excited to discover the holes, count new holes and find BIG holes. I’m super excited for what is going to happen to these caterpillars. And [...]
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