Mommy guest-writing:
Yesterday the silkworms hatched. What were poppy seed-sized black eggs split open to release tiny, 1/8th inch black caterpillars that quickly started crawling around the petri dish looking for food. We made silkworm chow and are now feeding them little crumbs of greenish stuff the consistency of agar. LF will be measuring them every day & taking pictures to upload here.
For information on how to rear silkworms, these are good resources:
We bought our eggs & silkworm chow from here: Niles Biological.
To summarize:
Day #1: 1/8"
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Friday, May 1, 2009
Silkworm Project
We received our silkworm eggs today!!! We got 25 eggs. They came in a petri dish, and we put the petri dish under a dark bowl and put a moist paper towel next to it and left the bowl lifted up a bit, and put the whole thing next to a window. The moist paper towel is to keep it moist so the eggs don't dry up.
The eggs look like tiny little black things that are blackish/grayish. They kind of look like tiny miniscule seeds.
The eggs look like tiny little black things that are blackish/grayish. They kind of look like tiny miniscule seeds.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
The Best and Worst of Tuesday
What was the best thing about today?
Little Flower: The first best thing was Mommy buying us ice cream after school and the second best thing as playing with incense (at school)
Super Fire (little brother): I loved that ball who goes out and in and out and in, the spikey one (like we saw at the science museum).
What was the worst thing about today?
LF: The worst thing was SF crying.
SF: Noona (big sister) hit me. Starts crying just thinking about it.
Little Flower: The first best thing was Mommy buying us ice cream after school and the second best thing as playing with incense (at school)
Super Fire (little brother): I loved that ball who goes out and in and out and in, the spikey one (like we saw at the science museum).
What was the worst thing about today?
LF: The worst thing was SF crying.
SF: Noona (big sister) hit me. Starts crying just thinking about it.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Trampoline and loose tooth
Today my hand was being very naughty because it was not being very good at writing, it was not listening to me and I was telling it not to do so scribbly-scrabbly tomorrow in Time class or else I would give him a double punishment and he would have time-out and no more writing for a long time. My arm was as red as the letters I'm going to put on right now: As red as this.
I went to the art museum a few days ago.
My tooth is loose. Mommy says it's going to come out in a week. I've been wiggling it a lot. I can't wait until it falls out.
And very soon I'm going to go back to New York. I can't wait until I do. I miss my dog Sadie and my daddy so much.
I went to a park that had a trampoline and I went on the trampoline for 90 minutes. That's more than an hour. And then we went home and I played with my fluff ball. Her name is Sofy. Mommy gave her to me as a surprise today and one for my brother. She is so soft.
I went to the art museum a few days ago.
My tooth is loose. Mommy says it's going to come out in a week. I've been wiggling it a lot. I can't wait until it falls out.
And very soon I'm going to go back to New York. I can't wait until I do. I miss my dog Sadie and my daddy so much.
I went to a park that had a trampoline and I went on the trampoline for 90 minutes. That's more than an hour. And then we went home and I played with my fluff ball. Her name is Sofy. Mommy gave her to me as a surprise today and one for my brother. She is so soft.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Tobi writes
"Ooh la la" Like a girl. I want to say, "ooh la".
I love Korea best of all. Cause it's good. I'm happy.
I love Korea best of all. Cause it's good. I'm happy.
Friday, March 13, 2009
Ocean world and more fun stuff
I am learning how to read and write Korean. I want to learn Korean because I am at Korea and I thought it would be a good idea to learn Korean. Because my cousins are in Taiwan and they are learning a language that I don't know and I want to learn a language so that they will be jealous and won't tease me about it.
It is hard to learn Korean.
I have had lots of fun here. I've gone to a place called Kids12 which is a big play place and I've gone to another big play place called Tiovivo. It is very fun there. I like Kids12 better, the people there are very nice, but my mommy says she likes Tiovivo better.
I went to this place called Ocean World. It was so cool. There was a hotel too there. It is all Egyptian. There was one ride that Mommy got to go on that I didn't because I was too short. It was so unfair because I was just a tiny inch smaller. If I went on my tippy toes I could reach it and taller. It was so unfair. But there's another ride that had this current and you'd go on this current and it would pull you. Once I almost got lost on it and Mommy got mad. You could go outside if you wanted or you could stay inside and there was lots of current and it pulled and you went all the way around and you would be in the beginning and you would go out. There were lots of hot tubs and there was this one that had pink water in it and it was so so so hot. It was pink because it was rose water, it was so fun but so hot. We had to go on the cool side, it was so hot. And I got water massages there and there's really hot hot tubs.
And there was this giant wave place that looked like the real ocean and I got to go in the deep part and go all the way out to touch the line and come back, swimming up and down and up and down. I couldn't have gone in the deep part, but I wore a floatie so I could go up the wave and down the wave just like a boat. One time the waves stopped and then I just curled up and floated in the water like it was a comfy bed.
That's all I've got to say. Bye bye.
It is hard to learn Korean.
I have had lots of fun here. I've gone to a place called Kids12 which is a big play place and I've gone to another big play place called Tiovivo. It is very fun there. I like Kids12 better, the people there are very nice, but my mommy says she likes Tiovivo better.
I went to this place called Ocean World. It was so cool. There was a hotel too there. It is all Egyptian. There was one ride that Mommy got to go on that I didn't because I was too short. It was so unfair because I was just a tiny inch smaller. If I went on my tippy toes I could reach it and taller. It was so unfair. But there's another ride that had this current and you'd go on this current and it would pull you. Once I almost got lost on it and Mommy got mad. You could go outside if you wanted or you could stay inside and there was lots of current and it pulled and you went all the way around and you would be in the beginning and you would go out. There were lots of hot tubs and there was this one that had pink water in it and it was so so so hot. It was pink because it was rose water, it was so fun but so hot. We had to go on the cool side, it was so hot. And I got water massages there and there's really hot hot tubs.
And there was this giant wave place that looked like the real ocean and I got to go in the deep part and go all the way out to touch the line and come back, swimming up and down and up and down. I couldn't have gone in the deep part, but I wore a floatie so I could go up the wave and down the wave just like a boat. One time the waves stopped and then I just curled up and floated in the water like it was a comfy bed. That's all I've got to say. Bye bye.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
My Poppa's Funeral
I went to a korean funeral. My poppa died. My poppa is my grandpa. It was kind of scary. It was a five day ceremony and on three days my mommy and my two aunts had to wear these black dresses and white bows in their hair. On the first day, there was a room with his picture in it and there was incense and we bowed and lit the incense. I bowed two and a half times. His picture was really nice. If you were far back it looked like he was smiling, but if you were close up it looked like he was frowning.
On the second day we did the same thing. On the third day I went with my mommy and my aunty Sumi and uncle Brian and uncle Ben and we saw Poppa's body being wrapped up. It was scary when we saw his body because it didn't look like him at all. They had shaved off his beard and it did not look like him at all. At first he was wearing these linen clothes and there were no knots at all. Not even at the end of a thread. There was no knots because if there are knots it might trap the spirit and might stop the spirit from getting out. Then they put a paper bag thing on his head and then they tied his arms up but they didn't use knots. They had to tie his arms up because he was especially big and wouldn't fit in the coffin. Then they put him in the coffin and fit it with paper rolls so that he wouldn't wobble around. And then they put the coffin lid on and covered it with a red clothe that had his name on it and then another red cloth then put it in a freezer.
On the fifth day, we went to another ceremony place and there we saw them put his coffin in an oven. We waited two hours and then we went back and saw them take out his ashes. There was a fake hip that didn't burn because it was metal. My mommy got that. Then there was a glass jar that we put his ashes in and my mommy put the fake hip in there. And then we took the jar and went to a place where there were glass boxes and we put Poppa's jar in a glass box. On the sixth day, we went back and unscrewed the box and put pictures of his family in the box so he wouldn't be lonely. And I thought it would a good idea to put one of his sailing medals in there too because he was a sailor till he got Alzheimer's.
And that was my Poppa's funeral.
On the second day we did the same thing. On the third day I went with my mommy and my aunty Sumi and uncle Brian and uncle Ben and we saw Poppa's body being wrapped up. It was scary when we saw his body because it didn't look like him at all. They had shaved off his beard and it did not look like him at all. At first he was wearing these linen clothes and there were no knots at all. Not even at the end of a thread. There was no knots because if there are knots it might trap the spirit and might stop the spirit from getting out. Then they put a paper bag thing on his head and then they tied his arms up but they didn't use knots. They had to tie his arms up because he was especially big and wouldn't fit in the coffin. Then they put him in the coffin and fit it with paper rolls so that he wouldn't wobble around. And then they put the coffin lid on and covered it with a red clothe that had his name on it and then another red cloth then put it in a freezer.
On the fifth day, we went to another ceremony place and there we saw them put his coffin in an oven. We waited two hours and then we went back and saw them take out his ashes. There was a fake hip that didn't burn because it was metal. My mommy got that. Then there was a glass jar that we put his ashes in and my mommy put the fake hip in there. And then we took the jar and went to a place where there were glass boxes and we put Poppa's jar in a glass box. On the sixth day, we went back and unscrewed the box and put pictures of his family in the box so he wouldn't be lonely. And I thought it would a good idea to put one of his sailing medals in there too because he was a sailor till he got Alzheimer's.
And that was my Poppa's funeral.
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