Coconuts?

Now that the girls are starting full day school everyday in a week's time, Mommy wastes no time trying to show them things beyond the classroom. Recently we chanced upon a baby coconut on the ground on a grass patch near our house and so Mommy decided to let Kieona and Kierra explore more about coconuts. Since both girls are so eager to bring coconuts to school, we had to go around the estate looking for more of these baby coconuts that have fallen off the trees so that they each had coconuts to show to their friends.

The baby coconuts we collected

The next day, both girls went to school with two baby coconuts each. Guess what? They came back with three and Kierra started crying in the car and said that Kieona has taken her coconut. Kieona finally explained that she gave one of Kierra's coconut to Don. After some probing, Mommy found out that Kieona had given hers to Don and then conveniently took one of Kierra's, so that she still has two and Kierra is now left with one. Wow, how smart of this girl. In the end, Mommy had to tell Kieona that we cannot give away something that is not ours and that she may want to return the coconut to Kierra. Well, that was not all. She agreed, but insisted that we look for more coconuts for her.

It's been a few days since, and I'm pretty glad that everyone seems to have forgotten about it.

Lifecycle of a Butterfly Part 1

We got inspired with Chelsea's pupa and Mommy decided to keep one of the caterpillars on our Kaffir Lime plant (although the rest had to be removed to prevent too much of the leaves being eaten up).

We spotted the caterpillars early this week on Monday and it's been seven days since we spotted it. It was originally this black and white caterpillar that was so tiny and had hairs on its body and now on day 7 it looks green and slimy. Our next door neighbour has got two caterpillars on their plant which is growing tandomly with ours and we're enjoying this caterpillar growing up process every single day since Monday. Check them out below.

Our caterpillar on Day 3 from the time we spotted him

Tong Tong's caterpillar - the big one

Tong Tong's caterpillar - the smaller one which is still black and white

Hey look! An hour later, Tong Tong's caterpillar shed its skin and is now green!