This was your 2nd visit to the Penang Air Itam Dam. It was a nice place to hang around as we could exercise with fresh air, beautiful sights, colourful flowers and seeing eagles fly high in the sky.
For the first time, mummy really worried you couldn’t finish the track and wanted mummy to carry you. Mummy would be too tired to carry you after a long walk..However, you did it. You enjoyed the walk, the nature, the insects and playing with the sticks and writing on the sand.
During the 2nd trip, you even sang mummy and daddy a song.
One morning, grandpa and grandma noticed the curry leaf plant lost
many leaves. We thought someone plucked the leaves to cook curry.
On closer look, we discovered five caterpillars eating the leaves. It
was very difficult to notice them because they could camouflage and
imitated the same colour of the leaves so that their enemies could not
find them. Grandma thought it would be a good idea to keep the
caterpillars in a box and let Gabriel observes them growing into pupae
and then into butterflies. Everyday we pluck some fresh leaves for
them to eat. When a caterpillar was big enough it stopped eating and
got stuck onto a surface waiting to turn into pupa. Maybe, grandma
will bring for you to see in Penang. Here are some photos grandpa had
taken. We hope Gabriel will grow up to like nature.
Dear Gabriel,
Grandpa has sad news for you. This morning grandpa discovered the beehive under the bougainvillaea plant was deserted by the bees. No more bees sticking on the beehive, only honeycomb left. Next time you can see the honeycomb grandma has kept for you. We love you. We miss you alot.
