My Legos

Fun Facts

Today, I read National Geographic Kids Weird but True! 3 Here are some things I learned.

Octopuses have 3 hearts.

The universe is about 13.7 billion years old.

One of the shortest wars ever lasted 38 minutes.

There was a hotel that was made of garbage in Rome, Italy.

The earth weighs about 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 metric tons.

Some diamonds are more than a billion years old.

Days were only 18 hours long a billion years ago.

In Italy, you can buy fresh pizza from a vending machine.

Test flights of the first space shuttle took off from the back of a flying 747.

If you want to learn more facts get this book from Barnes and Noble.

Jokes

Why can't the sailors play cards? Because the captain is standing on the deck!

Here are a couple more jokes.

Why aren't teddy bears ever hungry? Because they are always stuffed!

What type of key can't unlock a door? A mon~key

What game should you never play while you are fishing? Go Fish. Get it?

What do you call $10,000 worth of jewels? $10,000 worth of jewels! Haha!

What do cat's call Longfellow? Longfur! Hahaha

I'm Sad

Today my sister left for the Boundary Waters. When she left I was so sad that I walked around with my head down, my arms dangling, and feeling just miserable. The reason I was feeling so sad is because she always makes me feel good. Just being around her makes me feel happier, especially when bad things happen. She just goes with the flow and calms me. She helps me feel better by giving me good reasons to feel better! I love my sister and can't wait until she's back!

Damselfly

Two days ago my friend and I caught this damselfly. I can tell it is a damselfly because it sits with it's wings together and not apart. The End hahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I Saw Grandma Kissing Lego Man

Last fall, we went to Chicago for Lego Fest and saw this weird Lego dude. My grandma sat on the bench next to him and kissed him. The reason we went to Lego Fest was because I love Legos so much that I build anything I can think of out of Legos. I saw a Lego triceratops, Harry Potter, Ron, Hermione, and Hegrid built out of Legos. We also got to meet this Lego dude who has designed all of the Lego Architecture sets. When we met him he was building the Taj Mahal out of Legos. It was so much fun, now I think I will go and build something.

P.S. There was candy at Lego Fest;)

P.S. (again) Grandma, I hope I didn't embarrass you!!!!!

Fatty Butt and Kittens

Just seeing Charlie makes me feel closer to him.

P.S. my mom didn't want me to title this Fatty Butt and kittens, but I did anyway. Hehehehe! !!!!!

Charlie Is Still With Me

This is Charlie. He would be three this month if he were still alive. He is not with me physically but he will be in my heart and mind forever. I LOVE YOU CHAR-CHAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I Miss My Cat

Gardening

Whenever my Mom gardens I like to help. My mom usually lets me help, but not always. When I do get to help, I have so much fun I that wish I could do it forever! My favorite part of gardening is that we can grown some of our food so we don't have to buy as much. I like tasting the tomatoes, berries, and herbs, fresh out of the garden. I like weeding because the weeds are bad for the planet and for the plants. The weeds are bad for the plants because the weeds crowd out the plants and steal the nutrients so they can't grow. Get out and Garden! Once you do it for a while I bet you will really like it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A Swallow's Nest

One day while walking under a bridge I saw a swallow's nest. The bad thing about the nest was that 2 of its rooms had fallen off. There was a pile of old nest making supplies on the concrete below the nest, which had crumbled apart and turned into dirt. One of the swallows came swooping out of the nest at me. It was really exciting. The End Hahaha

The Moon

One night I was on Rock Island with my 2 sisters, my mom, and my dad. We had stayed up late to see the sunset and it was super beautiful. After the sunset we saw the moon, it was just a little over half full. This is a picture of it. The reason we have a moon is because of the earth's gravitational pull. It pulled in little bits and pieces of astroids and microscopic particles. After it pulled everything together, it resulted in what we see today.

You Wouldn't Want to Fall Down on This

One day while hiking by Devil's Lake we where on the Pothole Trail. It was super rocky. I bet the cliff was at least 20 feet high, so you wouldn't want to fall down. If you did you would probably crack your head open and die. That is unless you had a rocket booster and a parachute with you... The End Hahaha

Beetle, Lake, and Dragonfly

Get out, explore, and maybe you will find some awesome things. Here are somethings I found while hiking at Devils Lake.

Ginger Uses a Ruler

Yesterday, I was measuring a bunch of stuff. I measured so much that my cat wanted to measure too. I left the ruler on the floor and he measured his paw, one of the kitchen tiles, and he pushed the ruler over to the refrigerator and measured the foot of the refrigerator. It was really funny. The End! Hahaha!

My Dad's 39th Birthday

My Dad turned 39 on May 4th 2011. My sister made this cake. I think that it is the most extraordinary cake I have ever see in my life. I gave my Dad $10 to buy a bird feeder and bird seed. I helped him pick out the feeder and the seed. Since we put up the feeder it has attracted a ton of beautiful birds. They have gobbled down the food and emptied the feeder 1 1/2 times already. I hope they keep coming to our feeder forever!

My Precious Kitties

These are my cats. The grey one is Snickers and Ginger is the white and orange one. Ginger is nice when he wants to be but sometimes he gets out of hand. Snickers is calm most of the time. One day I spotted my two cats Snickers and Ginger laying together on my sisters bed. I have never seen them lay so nicely together, they usually wrestle to their death. Actually, they don't really die, I was just joking about that! They usually wrestle until they are so tired they drop down on the floor and take a nap. I've sent them do it and it is super funny. I love my cats!

Apricot Sea Turtle

I built this sea turtle out of some seed pods, an apricot pit, and green wooden thing that fell from our tree. My Mom saw it and said it was really cool, my sister guarded it so it did't blow away while I got the camera to snap some pictures. This is the best picture that I took of it. Isn't it cool? :)

Huge Moth

I didn't see this moth, but my Mom and Dad did. My Dad snapped this picture of it. The moth was as big as my mom's hand. I think it was really awesome!

Science in the Park

Last Friday, we went to a park and I was surprised by how many cool things we found. We saw a frog make a splash, salamander tadpoles, a Great Blue Herring, and I caught a turtle. I loved the turtle and wanted to take her home, but my mom said no. The turtle had a tumor on her neck and I think she was really sick because she kept hissing at me. Animals usually like me so I really think her tumor was making her unhappy. It's really sad that people don't take care of her home, I bet all the garbage and pollution in the pond caused her tumor to grow.

Rock Island

Last year we went to Rock Island. We stayed there for three days and 15 hours. The second night we were able to capture a few pictures of this sunset. I thought it was the most beautiful sunset I've ever seen in my life. We will go there again next month. I can't wait.

There's no place like earth, help protect our planet.

Without plants we would not be here. Did you know that 1/5th of our co2 is created by cutting down and burning trees? That is not good for us, plants or animals, or our planet. Help decrease co2 but planting trees, growing plants, and doing everything you can to help the earth. ~

~Thanks Eli :)

butterflies, caterpillars, and a snake

Here is some cool stuff we saw while hiking at Devil's Lake.

I really wanted to touch the snake, but Dad was scared it would bite me. Mom tried to pick it up, but it got away. I really wish I knew what kind it was, but even after trying to look it up we still don't know. The caterpillars where really cool too, I helped to free one of them as its butt was stuck like glue to the web and it was thrashing about. It felt good to free it, I just hope it's not an invasive species. The End hahaha!