My Chick

My chick's name is White Tip. She is black with little white tips at the back of her wings. White Tip is really nice and cuddly. She likes to get out of the coop. Though last night, she learned her lesson of getting out of the coop. Well, last night Mama woke up and herd a strange sound coming from the chicken coop. So she got out of bed and got her boots on and went outside. Then she went into the coop. She saw this big lump that was laying on a piece of wood outside the coop. It was about a foot and a half. It slowly got off the piece of wood and started walking towards the little stone steps Mama made with a chick in it's mouth! It was a raccoon carrying White Tip in it's teeth! Right after it reached the stairs Mama scared it away, leaving White Tip behind. White Tip was really lame, so Mama thought she was dead. Mama was going to leave White Tip there and throw her away in the morning, but then the raccoon came back, and picked White Tip up again, but White Tip made a little noise, so Mama scared the raccoon away again, and put White Tip in the coop. All the big chickens were in the coop, but only De out of the chicks was there. So Mama started looking for the other chicks. First she found Lucy, wandering around in circles in our  neighbor's back yard, so she put her in the coop. Then she found Emo up in a tree. She looked everywhere but couldn't find the other chicks, Chicky Tail and Bullet. She figured the raccoon had all ready gotten them, so she went back to bed. This morning Mama went out to the chicken coop again to check on White Tip, and Bullet and Chicky Tail were waiting at the gate to be let in! Mama let them in, then went over and opened up the hatch where we get eggs, and White Tip was walking around! At breakfast this morning Mama told us this story. In the middle of breakfast Mama took me to see White Tip. She was resting in one of the nesting boxes and her feathers were going up, so she was breathing. Mama held up her wing and showed me White Tip's cut, which was really long and deep. The raccoon had made it when he held her. I came back ten minutes later to put medicine on her cut. Then we went back inside. I really hope White Tip will live.

My Abraham Lincoln Movie

       

     Click her to watch my Abraham Lincoln Movie, from when he was a child, to an adult.

Our Chickens

Our Chickens are really noisy.  Especially in the morning when I like to sleep in. Sometimes when they lay eggs they sit on to of each other. They stopped doing it a long time ago, but just the other day I saw them doing it! It was frier tuck on the bottom and Puff on the top.( Puff is Mama's black and white chicken and frier tuck is Dada and Bergs brown one.)  We have 8 big chickens and 6 little chicks. Thats 14 chickens in all. I am going to name all of our chickens now. I am going to tell them in whose they are in our family order. First there is Puff, Mama's first chicken, then there is Rocky, her second one. Then there is Frier Tuck, Dada's chicken. After that, there is Tiny Two, Eben's first chicken, and Emo, his second chicken. Then there is Dotty, my first chicken, and white tip, my second chicken. ( I named Dotty after the dot on her head and white tip because there are a little bit of white on each wing.) Next there is Jay Jay, Jasper's chicken and Bullet, his other one. Opal named her chickens Poky and Lucy. Berg shares Frier tuck with Dada because when we got Frier he was just a baby. Though he also has Chicky tail. Pella, when we asked her what she wanted to name her chicken, she happily replied'' De'' so that is the name of her chicken. The sweetest of the chickens is Emo and the one that pecks the most is Frier tuck. The nicest  chickens of the big chickens are Puff, Moony and Rocky. The nicest of the chicks is Emo. The other chicks peck all around in a circle when they are in your hand.

School

Some times I love school, but sometimes I don't. I like school sometimes because it just, well, feels good to get it done and I look forward to it. I don't like it because sometimes it just feels like a big burden that I always have on my mind. A little voice inside me is always telling me: You have to do your school. Except I always have to do other things on my schedule. Then, when it is time to do math,  it takes me forever to do my math, and I never have time to do the other things on my list, so sometimes if I want to get all the things on my list done before Friday, I have to use up my free time doing school. I am using up my free time right now to do my blog. Some times my school list looks long, but its actually small. Sometimes my school list looks short, but the things in it are really long. I usally worry if there is a report on my school list. My free time is almost over, so, I am going outside. Bye!

Great Wolf Lodge!…Again!

I like Great Wolf Lodge. This is Jasper and Opal on a jet ski. 

There is a big bucket that pours 1,000 gallons of water! I stood under it with Dada and Jasper. 

There  is also an umbrella. This is me being soaked by the sides of the umbrella by the wave pool.

This is our family at the water park.

We got the wolf den! We had to share bunks because there was only one bunk bed. 

This time at Great Wolf Lodge I was able to go on the Tornado! Eben and Dada always get off  the tube before me. We went for our Christmas present. 

India

India is very interesting. I like it a lot. At first I didn't like it, but now I do. I didn't like it before because I had to write a lot of reports, like my one on Mother Teresa. I also didn't like it because of all the books I had to read. One thing I like about it is the food. I liked the naan and how we had to eat with our hands. Every meal had naan. Except I don't know how the kids can stay awake as long as they do! And  why are the boys more important than the girls! OK, I know why. The boys take care of the parents when they get old. I am going to end my blog now, so, good bye!

What we have learned in India so far

While we were in India, ( we are still in India) we did a lot of things.

First, we dressed up the boys. We dressed them up because in some parts of India they do in to scare away the evil spirits.  Eben and Jasper were matching, but we did not have a third matching dress for Berg.

The food was also pretty interesting. We had to eat it with our fingers because there are no forks in India. 

We also made naan. Eben preferred the un messy things, that left me with the messy things, like mixing the dough with my hands. 

At job time, opal was the laundry girl. She'd do the laundry normally, than when she took them out of the dryer, she'd hang them up to dry again. ( The laundry was still a little wet.)

 We also did henna, on our hands and feet. Okay, maybe only I got it on the feet, but… you got the point. This is Eben's hand. 

These are my henna feet. 

  

This is Jasper's lightning henna hand.

This is Mama doing Opal's hand.

Nonnie taut us chess. There was also a little dutch boy named Jasper that learned with us. 

 We had tea time too. I liked it a lot. 

In India, kids have dinner at 8 or 11 a clock! Me and Eben did that. We slept in the next morning. I almost fell a sleep. Mama almost did to.