Dodger

Today me and Michelle went and got a kitten. He's really playful, cute, and sweet. His name is Dodger, and he loves his toy mouse we got him. He played with it for hours. And then he got really tired so he kindof just rested. A little bit later me and Michelle gave him lots of love, he loved it. I put some pictures of him on my blog also, so you can see what he looks like. Right now he is sitting next to me watching us. He loves to cuddle. Today I was reading my book and he came up and sat right on my chest and started purring really loud. He is a very loud purrer. He is 4 months old. His birthday is just before mine on April 15 2008. He had 8 brothers and sisters and lived in a foster home. We didn't get to name him but we like his name and he's probably used to that name, so we don't want to start calling him a different name. He's such a sweet boy.

"me collage"

For homework for a whole week in school, I had to make a collage about myself. It was pretty fun. It had a bunch of pictures of me and my family. Michelle helped me get pictures of me and my mom off of her blog. There was a picture of me, Michelle, and my Dad at my Grandpa's farm. I put a picture of me bowling, and a picture of this huge beetle that me and Michelle found. I have a post about it also. I put some pictures that I took at the zoo and of the St. Louis arch.

COOL!!

Mom,

I found this bug today in the parking lot at Barnes & Noble. It's HUGE! We're putting a picture on this too so that you can see what it looks like. We tried to search for it on the website you used, but it we couldn't find it on there, so we looked it up on google. It can eat fish and even frogs. It's bite is a little painful (immobilizes their small prey). Luckily it was dead when we found it so it didn't accidentally bite us. They live in shallow ponds and swamps, so it probably came out during the storm. It uses the thing sticking out of it's back end to get air.

p.s. Eliza wouldn't touch it. So, I (Michelle), who do not like bugs, had to put it in a bag to take home and take the pictures. gross.

It's called: Giant water bug (Lethocerus americanus)

school's out

On my first day of school I met my teacher and all the other kids in my class. My teacher's really nice and I made two friends. But the second day was when the tropical storm started, so we didn't have school that day or the next day and we probably won't have school for one more day or even more. I'm not very happy about that cuz I like my teacher and my classroom n stuff so I wanted to go to school. But she gave us really fun homework. It's to make a collage about ourselves. It's to be turned in on Friday.

stuck inside

There's a tropical storm here in Florida, Melbourne. It's going until Thursday probably, or maybe longer. We have nothing to do inside really because we don't have our stuff yet. But there's nothing to do outisde and we can't go anywhere cuz most everywhere is closed. So we have to try and entertain ourselved inside. It's not very easy. In our driveway it's flooded. It goes up to the middle of my shins in the middle of the driveway. I know that because me and Michelle went and got soaking wet for a minute or two outside. We came back inside cuz it was getting really cold.

painting

Michelle said i could paint my room. So that's what these pictures are of . it was kind of hard, but fun also. First we had to paint the whole wall one color. We also had to put plastic on the carpet and tape on the base boards so we didn't get paint on those. Then we had to buy stencils so we could paint squares. The squares were a lot easier than the whole wall because the rollers weren't as heavy. We had to keep doing different layers on the squares and wait for them to dry if we were going to do a square on top of them. But it was still fun. It was a little bit easier to paint because our furniture hasn't come yet so we didn't have to worry about covering them all up and putting them in the center of the room and stuff. I really want our stuff, but we do not know how long it will take to get here. We don't even know if it's loaded onto another truck. I already decided where I'm gonna' put stuff in my room. I picked all the colors and the pattern. The picture of me has the lamp that I picked out cuz my room doesn't have a light so we had to buy a floor lamp so we could have light in my room.