Oct 6
After months of teasing us with cruising along furniture, frequent bear-crawling, and occasionally standing up on her own, Cutie finally started walking unassisted in the last couple of days! Once she gets a bit more confident, we can hopefully have four children who walk on their own. And just in time!; Winter, which brings the additional challenge of carrying a bundled-up child (when you’re bundled up yourself), is right around the corner!
This is the second post of “nature invades our home.” Read the first part about our butterfly adventures!
Our sneaky skink (click for a larger view)
Following on the heels of our butterfly adventure comes another chapter in nature invading our home! Coming into our basement last week, I was startled (though not as much as I would have thought) to see a large black lizard sitting on the floor. When I say “large,” it turned out to be quite small, but seeing a lizard of any size on my basement floor amplified its size.
I was equally shocked to hear, when I told the rest of the family of my find, that the kids had already spotted it – twice – and though it was rather clever (why they failed to inform me of this continues to escape me).
Three Monarch butterflies hang from their chrysalises (click the photo for a larger version)
For the last few years, I have planned to mail away for butterfly larvae (i.e., caterpillars) so the kids could get the opportunity to “raise” butterflies. But the time always got away from me and I consistently missed the window of opportunity; after all, I didn’t want to have the poor things hatch in the middle of Winter when they wouldn’t have a chance to migrate.
This year, a good friend who lives nearby was kind enough to text me one night to ask if I’d be interested in snagging a couple of Monarch caterpillars that were covering a milkweed bush he had planted for just that purpose. I jumped at the idea!
Never mind that this is in German, there’s enough understandable words that you’ll hopefully be chuckling as much as I was by the end…
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