Penguin Project - Day 4

It's Day 4 and "Shade" & "Shady",  some of the more purposeful penguins destined to be part of the project,  appeared on the dashboard of the car before Daddy headed to work this morning.

Unfortunately today is gray, overcast and rainy, so they will have to wait a bit before being useful and before we can get a decent picture of them in use :)

Penguin Project - Day 3

This morning we decided to be nice and there was a pretty penguin named Coco (who was hiding some candy and a note) sitting on the nightstand for Daddy to find this morning.

But upon coming into the kitchen we found that the pengies from the last 2 days were....

IN JAIL!?!?!?!

That is not very nice and it may have some bearing on tomorrow's gift

Penguin Project - Day 2

Day two, the arrival of "Wendy" who showed up on the coffee canister in the kitchen and caused a sleepy Daddy to scream as it fell onto the counter scaring him.

So far so good, he will like tomorrow's choice

Penguin Project - Day 1

Well... last year Mom & I did the 12 days of penguins to 'torture' daddy... this year it is "The Penguin Project: 25 Days of Pengu"  

We are late getting the blog posts up because mom was busy with client projects, but here is the first of the gang that arrived with Daddy's coffee on December 1st.   

This is Bruce & Barley they are a father-daughter team that like to explore....

Stay tuned for the rest of the days and please give us ideas for some of them if you want.

Thanksgiving Photo Shoot

We went to Virginia to visit my Aunt & Uncle. Mom & Dad took my cousin Casey and my brother Colin out for a photo shoot and I tagged along. Here are my favorites that I took and edited from the session. This is my first slideshow and I am so excited...



This was so much fun!!! I can't wait to tag along with Mom and Dad again!

Anna & Spencer

This was my first official photo shoot. My parents were going to a photo shoot and asked me to go. I said yes and decided to take some pictures. These are my favorite pictures of the set.

                                                          

Caterpillars

Over the weekend we found these in the oak tree behind our house. Mom helped me look them up on the internet and I took pictures and wrote this report for extra credit at school.

Orange Striped Oakworm

The Oakworm's latin name is Anisota Senatoria.

The adult moths emerge from the ground to mate in late spring. They are poor flyers. You often find them climbing up oak trees. The females lay up to 500 eggs in clusters on the underside of the oak leaves. The eggs hatch 1-2 weeks after they are laid. They usually hatch in late June. Soon there will be an army that is hungry and feast on leaves from July to October stripping the trees of leaves.

In October they start digging 3-4 inches into the ground to spin a coccoon and spend the winter turining into a moth. When they turn into moths, they are yellow with white spots on the wings.

The oakworm is 55mm long and is black in color with 4 yellow-orange stripes running the length of the body. They have short spines portruding from the sides of the body and short black antennae.

Mom helped me catch one and I took it to school to show the kids. Keirra named it "Bob" and we kept it in the bug jar till late in the day when we let it go on an oak tree near the playground. Did you know that caterpillars poop? Well these do and it looked like little black balls.