Today we woke up early and found the Valentine's day surprise mom and dad had made for us, which was chocholate hearts with heart- shaped cards. After that we zoomed to valentine making, becase we had not made any valentine cards and the valentine's day party we were going to required that everybody bring 20 valentines, on for each person. Lots of kids went in one room to have a club meeting, in which everyone who was silent was promoted 5 levels by the leader and anyone who talked was kicked out by the leader.
After that we decided to make our own club, without many rules, but it didn't work very well. When the party was finished, my younger sister went to her friend's house for a sleepover. I said how my friend Sasha had never had a sleepover at my house and I had never had a sleepover at her house. Mom turned around and went back to the party and asked her mom if Sasha could have a sleepover. She could! We went to her house to get a change of clothes, and then we went to my house.
We built a Kapla block tower with every single block we have, took some pictures, measured its height (73 inches) and took a movie of us knocking it down. Which was just as fun as building it.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Friday, February 13, 2009
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Did piano and started on a knitted hat today. . . . . If today is Wednesday the 11th. . . . . . . . . (. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . )
Yay!
Today (If today is Tuesday) we went to the park and played chipmunk tag for a little bit ( My youngest sister's most recent name for tag when everybody is after one person instead of the other way around), while waiting for two friends to come.
When they got there, we played a little bit more, but then we started playing a game where you could not step on the ground, but you could step on things bigger than your hand on the ground, and on pavement. I won a race form of that game, and then we went to our friends' house.
While we were there, I finished knitting my scarf! Yay! My first project is finished!
If the card reader wasn't missing, here there would be a photo of the scarf and it on its owner. But unforunately the card reader is missing.
When they got there, we played a little bit more, but then we started playing a game where you could not step on the ground, but you could step on things bigger than your hand on the ground, and on pavement. I won a race form of that game, and then we went to our friends' house.
While we were there, I finished knitting my scarf! Yay! My first project is finished!
If the card reader wasn't missing, here there would be a photo of the scarf and it on its owner. But unforunately the card reader is missing.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Chocloate covered orange peels!
Today we went to Trackers. When we got there, we made an obstacle course. You had to weave between the backpacks, jump one backpack, climb over the sign, run over two picnic tables, jump up as high as you could and touch the tree, and run back to the start. I got the second best time, with the winner having 17 seconds and me having 17 seconds and a half.
After that we played a game called lillypads. There is one island,(a tree) and you are jacanas, a type of bird that walks on lillypads and lives in Texas, trying to get to the opposite bank(a path). To get lillypads,(pieces of cardboard) you have to ask the game overseers a question about the landscape that is not a how-many question that they cannot answer, but there are only enough lillypads to be gotten for everyone to have one. You can move the lillypads, but not if you are standing on it, and if anyone steps in the water, they have to give one lillypad back to the game overseers and go back to the start, but they can choose which lillypad. And if one person uses two pieces of cardboard to zoom to the bank, then there is a band of fierce jacanas who will take captive any who come alone. The game is finished when everyone gets to the bank.
After lillypads, we went on a plantwalk and looked at different edible and medicinal plants and their uses, the uses being scant, probably because the teacher didn't want us to pick and eat leaves and roots when we had a sickness. After the plantwalk, we did a challenge to turn over a tarpaulin while all thirteen people in the class were standing on it. After we did that three teams tried to find all the different leaves in a certain pattern.
When we went home, we made heart-shaped dark chocolate covered candied orange peels. We used oranges from our own tree. I sliced and peeled the oranges, then used a cheese grinder to get rid of the pith. Then my sister cut them into either hearts, flowers or strips. Then we boiled them in hot sugar water while we did math, and when there was hardly any liquid left mom took out the orange peels and let them dry. After math I tasted a candied orange peel, which taste delicous even without chocolate on them. Then we put some dark chocolate in the fondue pot and melted it. We dipped the candied orange peels in the chocolate and pulled them out when they were covered in chocolate.
Not surprisingly, they didn't last long.
After that we played a game called lillypads. There is one island,(a tree) and you are jacanas, a type of bird that walks on lillypads and lives in Texas, trying to get to the opposite bank(a path). To get lillypads,(pieces of cardboard) you have to ask the game overseers a question about the landscape that is not a how-many question that they cannot answer, but there are only enough lillypads to be gotten for everyone to have one. You can move the lillypads, but not if you are standing on it, and if anyone steps in the water, they have to give one lillypad back to the game overseers and go back to the start, but they can choose which lillypad. And if one person uses two pieces of cardboard to zoom to the bank, then there is a band of fierce jacanas who will take captive any who come alone. The game is finished when everyone gets to the bank.
After lillypads, we went on a plantwalk and looked at different edible and medicinal plants and their uses, the uses being scant, probably because the teacher didn't want us to pick and eat leaves and roots when we had a sickness. After the plantwalk, we did a challenge to turn over a tarpaulin while all thirteen people in the class were standing on it. After we did that three teams tried to find all the different leaves in a certain pattern.
When we went home, we made heart-shaped dark chocolate covered candied orange peels. We used oranges from our own tree. I sliced and peeled the oranges, then used a cheese grinder to get rid of the pith. Then my sister cut them into either hearts, flowers or strips. Then we boiled them in hot sugar water while we did math, and when there was hardly any liquid left mom took out the orange peels and let them dry. After math I tasted a candied orange peel, which taste delicous even without chocolate on them. Then we put some dark chocolate in the fondue pot and melted it. We dipped the candied orange peels in the chocolate and pulled them out when they were covered in chocolate.
Not surprisingly, they didn't last long.
Sleepover Saturday-Sunday
Today I went to my cousins' house while dad took mom on a 40th birthday surprise trip to the French Laundry. I made a friendship bracelet for Valentine's day and we all watched Madagascar 2 and had dinner. We puzzeled over the 'self-expanatory' cot for a while, and finally made it stand up. We got into bed, my sisters annoyed with the arrangment of all of us in the same room and them in the same queen-sized bed while I got a cot to myself. Soon I blocked out the sound of the neverending story tape put on for my youngest sister and went to sleep.
In the morning, we woke up, or I should say I woke up and my youngest sister woke my other sister up, proclaimed that she wanted her own bed, and joined me in the cot until it was seven o clock and not 6:54. Then we got out of bed and headed downstairs, and were quickly joined by our cousins, who had 'been awake since 5:34!' We played a robot game for a while, my sisters often complaining about how they lost and the youngest one quitting. After that I tried to start another bracelet, this time with a more complicated pattern, but the threads got tangled and I had to untie it. My older younger sister and cousin played with Sculpey clay for a while, looking at the kids Sculpey book and the experts Sculpey book and wishing they could make thing from the experts Sculpey book but not trying and picking things from the kids Sculpey book. I made a scene pin cane from the experts Sculpey book and made some of the circular scenes into beads and some into pins, and one for my sister with a foam back. We had lunch, cooked the clay, and were picked up by mom and dad.
In the morning, we woke up, or I should say I woke up and my youngest sister woke my other sister up, proclaimed that she wanted her own bed, and joined me in the cot until it was seven o clock and not 6:54. Then we got out of bed and headed downstairs, and were quickly joined by our cousins, who had 'been awake since 5:34!' We played a robot game for a while, my sisters often complaining about how they lost and the youngest one quitting. After that I tried to start another bracelet, this time with a more complicated pattern, but the threads got tangled and I had to untie it. My older younger sister and cousin played with Sculpey clay for a while, looking at the kids Sculpey book and the experts Sculpey book and wishing they could make thing from the experts Sculpey book but not trying and picking things from the kids Sculpey book. I made a scene pin cane from the experts Sculpey book and made some of the circular scenes into beads and some into pins, and one for my sister with a foam back. We had lunch, cooked the clay, and were picked up by mom and dad.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Birthday party and Half-birthday!
Today, the 4rth, is my half-birthday! The time farthest, in either direction, from my birthday!
Yesterday I got two books for my half-birthday one day early, and today I really started to read them. They are Fablehaven 2&3. I have read the first book, and I liked it very much. It is about a magical creatures preserve, where fairies and monsters live together. In the morning, we set out for our french lesson. We played red light, green light, and hot and cold, in french. After french, we rushed off to piano. After piano, we went to a birthday party. I brought my knitting to the party, because the birthday girl was younger than Greta and thus unlikely to have many friends my age. As one little girl walked in, she pointed at me and said,"Look! She is sewing!"
Guessing that I probably would not get much peace to knit in, I put the knitting away and went outside. The two chickens were being chased around to no avail by children who probably could not pick a chicken up if they caught one. I caught both chickens and held them at the same time, then gave them to the kids who had fruitlessly been trying to catch them. After dinner we went home and had some bedtime tea and read some Harry Potter. Then we went to sleep.
Yesterday I got two books for my half-birthday one day early, and today I really started to read them. They are Fablehaven 2&3. I have read the first book, and I liked it very much. It is about a magical creatures preserve, where fairies and monsters live together. In the morning, we set out for our french lesson. We played red light, green light, and hot and cold, in french. After french, we rushed off to piano. After piano, we went to a birthday party. I brought my knitting to the party, because the birthday girl was younger than Greta and thus unlikely to have many friends my age. As one little girl walked in, she pointed at me and said,"Look! She is sewing!"
Guessing that I probably would not get much peace to knit in, I put the knitting away and went outside. The two chickens were being chased around to no avail by children who probably could not pick a chicken up if they caught one. I caught both chickens and held them at the same time, then gave them to the kids who had fruitlessly been trying to catch them. After dinner we went home and had some bedtime tea and read some Harry Potter. Then we went to sleep.
Toilets(Tuesday)
Today I was looking at baby quail on the internet. Apparently, you can get quail eggs for very little off the internet, hatch the quail, and keep them in a pretty smal enclosure. But soon I was yanked away to go shopping for toilets. A full scale remodel is going in in mom's bathroom, with the floor being the crawlspace, the ceiling being the attic, and the walls being... bare walls. While one large remodel is going on in one bathroom, why not remodel the other one? It has got bumpy plastic floor and a four-gallon-per-flush toilet, anyway. So now, one bathroom is hardly a room anymore, one dosen't have much of a floor, and the other one dosen't have a lock.
We went to Granite Expo to look at some toilets. We got two, and then shoved the boxes in the back of the car. They wouldn't fit until the backseat was strait up. My sister who was also sitting back there moved into a vacant seat, but I got stuck in the back. While we tried to hurry to Alameda, the GPS directed us to Treasure Island, where it said there will be a left exit. But no such luck. Across the bay bridge and into San Francisco. Right when there is a lot of traffic going back. We tried to think of it as a gift, that we wouldn't gave seen that huge cargo ship if we had went the correct way. We went back across the bay bridge and, finally, onto Alameda. We piled out of the car, and I saw that I had not brought any yarn, knitting needles, or knitting, to the house of someone who would have known how to help. Oh, well.
We went to Granite Expo to look at some toilets. We got two, and then shoved the boxes in the back of the car. They wouldn't fit until the backseat was strait up. My sister who was also sitting back there moved into a vacant seat, but I got stuck in the back. While we tried to hurry to Alameda, the GPS directed us to Treasure Island, where it said there will be a left exit. But no such luck. Across the bay bridge and into San Francisco. Right when there is a lot of traffic going back. We tried to think of it as a gift, that we wouldn't gave seen that huge cargo ship if we had went the correct way. We went back across the bay bridge and, finally, onto Alameda. We piled out of the car, and I saw that I had not brought any yarn, knitting needles, or knitting, to the house of someone who would have known how to help. Oh, well.
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