Friday, May 08, 2009
Happy Mother's Day
"Arise then...women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts! From the bosom of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with Our own. It says: Disarm! Disarm!"— Julia Ward Howe, Mother's Day Proclamation, 1870
Any similarity is pure coincidence
I cannot stop thinking that there are some similarities with these two! Both are really cute indeed, but look at these big eyes and little nose. Aren't them pretty alike?
For a long time I loved Jiji from Kiki's Delivery. She is cute and sweet. I actually have two of these stuffed cats at home. No wonder we own a black Kittie now. Preta is just like that. But she is not so little like Jiji anymore. Because she has gained a lot (I really mean a lot!) of weight since has been adopted from the shelter.
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
My seeds and I can count them too!
This was so cute. Leo was studying the different seeds and being creative about what the dyed water (colours) looked like. If you noticed, the water that belongs to the Sugar Maple seeds he called it 'syrup'. Mommy was a bit excited about the counting. 8-)
Monday, May 04, 2009
Our tree Science Project
Here are the seeds being prepared in water. Many tree seed species possess what is know as 'embryo dormancy' which must be effectively overcome before the seed can be forced to germinate given the appropiate conditions. We soaked the seeds in warm water for 48 hours and some of them are going to be under cold stratification for 4 months and others for only 2 months cold stratification followed by 4 months of warm stratification.
Stratification: seeds are in a ziplck bag filled with moistened peat and stored in the refrigerator's salad crisper compartment prior to removing and sowing seeds. That is the delicate part of the process and we are crossing our fingers to be successful.
Please wish us good luck and hope we will have some good news in a couple of months.
And the Science Project Begins
We have a fun new litte family science project: Trying to grow different types of trees. Mostly different species of maple trees. So, I got nine different of seed packages from Angel Grove Seeds. They are Flowering Crabapple, Japanese Crabapple, Sugar Maple, Virginia Creeper, Red Norway Maple, Norway maple, Japanese Maple, Amur Flame Maple and Colorado Blue Spruce.
My first Vanilla Cake with Chocolate Icing
I had this pictures in file for a while, but now I thought would be nice to share with you. Leo making his first vanilla cake with chocolate icing. Check out, Mommy was his assitant and camera woman at same time ; -)
He was pretty good and even wanted to double check the instructions! We took the cake to our friends house for dessert and everybody loved! They were all Leo made the cake. And it was DELICIOUS! Good job!
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