Month: May 2010

Today at the Long Center playground I found a bunch of caterpillars. I came running to Mommy screaming that I found the COOLEST THING EVER! After much nagging, MOmmy allowed me to bring three of them home.

They were nibbling on the buds of the plants.

Mommy dumped out her water bottle and Emmerson and I picked leaves and then put in the caterpillars. I told Mommy they were Monarch caterpillars. I was right!

We came home and cleaned out the butterfly habitat Grandma Susie had given me for my birthday last year. We put in some sticks and twigs and Mommy picked a few branches from the butterfly garden on the side of the house. We hung the cage in the garage to dry and when we got home later in the evening and checked on them… they were already starting to make their cocoons! Well, they were hanging upside down.

Since the cage was dry Mommy moved it back to my room and hung it high up so the cats don’t bother it.

Emmerson and I are having a sleepover in my room tonight to watch the change. I don’t think I can stay awake too long, I am tuckered out after such a fun day!

Today we took Grandma Jo and Grandpa Howie and went to Brooksville to Sweetfields Farm for a morning of fun in the HOT sun. They are hosting a huge sunflower maze, similar to a corn maze but with sunflowers! 🙂 The sunflowers in the maze were not in bloom just yet but there were several around the property that were.

It was only $8.50 for the adults and kids 3-12 were only $4.50 to get in! They have a nice little organic veggies stand at the entrance. There was not a lot of choice but the zucchini were as big as Daddy’s arm and only $1.00!!!

I really thought the sunflowers were pretty. This one had a huge beetle on it!

They had an obsticle course with big tricycles. Huge stacks of hay (straw) that you could climb up on.

We all really liked this game. It was old fashion hand pumps, sloped PVC gutters and floaty toys. You had to pump the water and race the creatures to the other side! It was so much fun!

We waited for teh hayride to come pick us up and go to the entrance to the sunflower maze. Honestly you could have walked it in less time but it was fun to take the ride.

I snuggled up with Grandma Jo and told her all about the farm.

They gave us a sheet with 8 clues on it. Whenever you go to a signpost with a number on it you had to answer the clue to figure out which way to go next. So, off we went…to have fun!

The sun was super hot but there was a nice breeze… until you entered the sunflower maze.

Emmerson refused to walk so Mommy and Daddy got exhausted quickly. It was too hot to be carrying a 30lb child. We got really stuck after clue #3 and wandered in circles and dead ends for a while. Finally, someone spotted a sign that said “Emergency Exit”. Well, that was all the clue that we needed. We headed out. I had so much fun anyway. I loved running ahead and then coming to a dead stop and screaming “DEAD END!”

They also had a chicken coop with some not so grown up chickens.

They were pretty neat to watch and talk to.

There was a HUGE play tree house. Daddy took me up for a look around. All the walls were chalkboard paint and there was tons of drawing chalk upstairs.

There was a classic snack machine too! How cool!

We came down to check out the swing.

It was super hard to stay on the swing but I had a fun time trying.

I found a bunch of spiders in this old tractor tire.

I tried to ride this old bicycle but my legs were just a bit too short.

We headed over to the craft tent to make some potted sunflower seeds.

We also dun for plastic bugs in the feeding trough.

Grandma Jo showed us the squash growing on the little bush.

I also mad a noodle necklace. They had face painting but i didn’t want that this time. We had a great time. I wish it wasn’t so hot or we would have stayed a lot longer.

Today we braved the heat, mosquitos and did I mention HEAT to go to Dinosaur World. It is really my favorite place in the world!

I was being silly and got turned into a dinosaur.

The one eyed dinosaur! 🙂

We had an early fossil dig time and I found lots of cool things. I finally decided on two fossils of sea creatures and a piece of amber.

Some of my friends watched the video with me. I have always been too afraid to sit in the cave and watch. I really enjoyed the video.

We ran everywhere! We ran up and down EVERY path at least twice. We were all dripping wet with sweat and ready to call it a day after just shy of 2 hours. I was a lot of fun and I can’t wait to go back once the weather is a bit cooler! Which obviously won’t be for a few months.

Grandma Susie sent pictures of my garden that I planted a few weeks back. I had planted pumpkins, multiple colors of peppers and sugar snap peas. So far only the sugar snap peas have started to come up.

I can’t wait to go back and visit and see in person how my garden is doing!!!

Soon this whole garden box should be full!!

I am really enjoying my science class in Safety Harbor. Today we talked about the frogs life cycle and different types of frogs. We learned what frogs eat and what eats frogs!

We went outside the building and spent 40 minutes catching frogs!

There were 7 kids in class today and we started catching frogs. There were hundreds of them!

They were only about the size of a penny.

Everywhere we looked we found frogs. Itty bitty baby ones!

Emmerson caught about 10 and I caught about 30!!!

At the ends we figured in all everyone caught well over 200 frogs!!! What a fun time. I only asked Mommy about 50 gazillion times if I could bring one home… the answer was a big NO every time. I think I am going to break her soon, so I will keep asking! 🙂 hahahahaha!