Snow Play

We finally got snow! We got a whole blizzard and I’m very happy about it. The only bad part is it was on a weekend so we don’t get a snow day. But I’m still very excited about it. Right now we have three snowmen and a snow fortress in our yard. On another block, my friend Dylan and I have a giant snow fortress. I’ve already been a part of three snowball fights too. My only problem is this: I haven’t been sledding yet! I think that’s just insane. Every time it snows at least half of the kids in the area that got snow need to go sledding,and I want to be a part of that group of kids! I think I’ll sled at recess tomorrow. I hope I go sledding at recess tomorrow, but I’m thinking our class will probably stay inside because it’s so cold.

The Big Ball Factory

In school Mr. Wilcox has K’nex available for us to play with. K’nex are things for building, but not much like legos or blocks. They are pretty much a modernized version of Tinker-toys. They come with wheels, so everyone builds cars and race them. A lot of people built fancy garages for their cars with two floors and a ramp leading down from the second floor to a courtyard. As some people who think garages are a waste of pieces said, “Does your car really need a nice castle to live in?!” But anyway, they all sacrificed their garages to straighten out the K’nex table and make room for the construction of the Big Ball Factory. The Big Ball Factory is simply a five foot tall structure with balls. Once it’s finished, you put a ball at the bottom of the structure where it goes up the motor powered elevator then down all the ramps and loops and swirls and ends at the bottom of the elevator to do it all over again. I really enjoy watching and operating that kind of thing. I can’t wait until it’s finished!

Gob

Gob. That’s what I call the Geography Bee, because a lot of people call it the Geo Bee for short. G-O-B spells Gob. Anyway, every year our school has one to determine who will go to an even bigger Gob. Fourth grade and up gets to be in it,and this year I got to be in it. I was the only fourth grader out of ten contestants. All of the questions were about the United States,except for in the championship rounds, which,miraculously,I got into! I beat all of the big kids except for one, because in the championship rounds, I missed two out of three, because like I said none of them were about the U.S.A. Evan Mettenbrink, a boy in Daniel’s class whose sister Gillian is in my class, got first. We both got cool pens and Evan had a choice between a water bottle and a drawstring backpack, and he got a medal. Since Evan chose the Water bottle, I got to keep the backpack. The back pack is VERY big though, for a drawstring bag. I am just glad I had fun.

 

Kitty Town

My friend Madalyn and I have been working on a fun project together. We’re making a special city for cats. We have a giant piece of paper we are drawing it on. We call it, Hisspurrmeowmeow City! So far we have: Litter-Box World,The Mega Mega Mall, The Park, The Toystore, The Courthouse, The First Lutheran Church of Hisspurrmeowmeow City, St. Kitty Lutheran School, The Snickers Memorial Library, Kitty Inn, Hisspurrmeowmeow City Hardware Store, The Dead Fish (which is actually a fancy restaurant), and Hisspurrmeowmeow City Theatre. We plan on making a lot of houses and maybe a bank, and then we’ll stay in my mom’s kindergarten classroom after school and add kitty citizens and color. I’ll add a picture of it when it’s done.

Road Trip!

The Wednesday after Christmas, my family went on a trip to Denver. We sat in the hotel room eating chips and watching T.V. Better than that, we went swimming. Better still, I finally got to see the movie The Invention of Hugo Capret (pronounced cab-RAY) which I think is actually just called Hugo, but that’s what the book is called. The book is also on the reading classics list. But best of all, we went hiking through the mountains at garden of the gods.Those pictures tell about just about everything we did in the mountains, except how we got lost on the way back, and the fact that dogs were allowed on the trail, as well as horseback riders, and we ended up nearly stepping in their waste everywhere. :p When we went home, we picked up my cousin Erin on the way, so she could spend the night since it was new years eve. I made it to midnight, but Erin fell asleep around twenty minutes before the count down. In the morning we went to church, ate lunch, jumped on the trampoline, played with my many littlest pet shops and then she had to go.

Fat Cat

Snowy has been gaining weight. A lot. We’re putting him on a cat diet. I checked his weight today, and he weighs twelve point four pounds! As in comparison to Raphael, who weighs only seven point six pounds.  Nobody in my family wants to hold Snowy for more than twenty seconds he’s so fat. He’s getting a lot lazier too. If I try to play with him, instead of chasing the toy like he used to, he lies around watching it, and only attacks it if it comes within a foot of him. He used to hunt birds all the time, but now Raphael just does that. Raphael has even caught one right out of the air before. I’m guessing that the reason he’s gaining so much weight is because nobody’s really sure if he’s been fed yet of not, so he gets almost five meals a day. So I’m never going to feed the cats unless somebody tells me so.

Many Presents

Well, merry Christmas everybody! This year I had a good Christmas. We opened presents on the evening of Christmas Eve. I got a lot of cool things, and gave a lot of cool things. I got Rachel an iTunes gift card, Alicia a kitten calendar, Daniel a sky ball and silly string, and gave mom and dad a gourd I had painted and glazed in school. I got a Zhu-Zhu Pet, a paddle-ball, a stretchy lizard, a soldier with a parachute, $20, pajama pants, two remote control cars, toe-shoes, a new violin, three hex-bugs and a playground thing for them, Squinkies, a cool Spongebob thing for the computer when you can make your own Spongebob cartoons, two really big boxes that Rachel and Alicia’s presents (which were chairs for their dorm rooms) came in, and an angel for my nativity set. On Christmas morning, I found $20 in my stocking. On the floor by our stockings were the presents for our whole family. That included Banana Grams, a washer toss game, and a kit to make popsicles. The day brought more presents. We went to grandma and grandpa’s house for lunch. We sang Angels We Have Heard On High, then Joy To The World, then we prayed, and then we ate. After dessert and a LOT of waiting, we got to open presents. I got clothes, the book A Christmas Carol with the program to the play A Christmas Carol I was in, a scarf, a cool hat that makes my head look like a cupcake, the game Simon that you have to press the buttons that light up in the same order the game did, a cool crank-powered flashlight, a pillow pet horse, a funny card from Uncle Brad with $20 wishing me a happy belated birthday (It’s his specialty to be months late for birthdays), and a brand new suitcase that came with a padlock and keys so I could lock Daniel out. After we opened presents, Daniel, my two cousins and I went outside so the boys could try out the new remote control cars they had gotten. (I hadn’t brought mine) almost the rest of the day, Uncle Brad, Tara and I were hanging out at my house, trying out all our new gifts. After they left, our night concluded with Mom, Dad, Rachel, Daniel and I watched Night At The Museum 2.