Raising silk worms

So a friend of ours gave us two silk worms and two more in cocoons.  They only eat the leaves of a certain tree.

 This guy has finished eating and headed to the corner to start making his cocoon.

He started by spinning a single thread from one wall to the other and made a web for himself. 

Then he made an oblong shaped thing and was spinning from the inside of it.

And this is what the moth looks like once it comes out of the cocoon. I think it has a cute face.

They live for two days and don't eat anything and have been domesticated for so long they can't even fly.  If one of our moths is a male and the other is a female then they might leave an egg and then if we wait one year, we could start all over with caterpillars!

The Twins

 These are twin babies.

You can see the head of one under the mother.

 Here they have grown a bit.

Growing up!

 It's only a few days old and doesn't even have its eye open yet.

The mother has been feeding it and sitting on it to keep it warm!

This ones feathers still haven't come in completely.

Our birds

 We're feeding our birds one corn kernel at a time!

 And here is one of the first babies!

Swan Park

 Well, there are geese too.

 One of the things we will miss about our city after we move is the park that is very near our home that has swans, geese, and ducks.  They are very beautiful and fun to watch their antics.

I tried to feed this one ice cream but it didn't bite!

Valentines Day

 We started by making some festive cookies with food dye and my great-grandmother's sugar cookie recipe.  They would have been super with my mom's homemade strawberry jam, but this will have to do.

 You can see the manger scene I made for our kitchen wall at Christmas. It's covering up the ugly holes in the wall.

 We found some fun decorations at the mall.

And then we went bowling!

 Do these look familiar to you all?  Yes, some things are the same the world over! :)

Like an old friend

We saw this girl on a trip to Antakya and she reminded us of our sweet duck.

How do you buy your live roosters?