Math!

Did you know that I hate math? Well, I do. Kiki hates it too. But if you look in our math notebooks you will see that it has "I love math" written all over it. Why? Because we are trying to brainwashing ourselves. Seriously! It would be so helpful to like it! But, as you can guess, it has not worked. Yet.

The Pets of the Sunshiny household!

This is the Wild Cat that lives by our house.

This is Cleopatra, who we call Cleo. She bites, but I really like her.

This is Carmel, who is an Angora. She is very sweet and floppy.

This is Penny , who loves poppy, but no one else.

Ella, Allie's hamster got loose for a week, and was finally found a couple of days ago.

These pictures are of Fern, a sweet and playful cat

And... MY BIRDS! Well, the blue, yellow, and brown one is 1 third mine, and the blue one is totally mine. I spent my money on both of them, so I don't know how it came to be only 1 third mine. Well, anyway, I named them Tom Thumb and Thumbelina! Aren't they cute? OK, i know I'm going a little bonkers over them, so I'll end the post!

Bye! hope you enjoyed looking at our pets!

Pictures!

Hi! I found all these pictures that I took during the summer, so here they are!

We went to a "Grossology" exhibit at a museum, here is Ben playing a game there! (He hated the whole thing.)

Here is Anna Claire, she LOVED it!


Here is Allie, learning how food is digested,

and Ben and Allie learning why you burp. (Gross!)

Allie's birthday party!

Singing happy birthday!

Ben goofing around.

Katie the webkinz pug sporting a colonial outfit, made by me, even including a hoop thingy! (to hold your skirt up. Notice Christopher in the background, wearing a Pirates of the Caribbean Wig.)

Having a picnic in the Bruton Parish garden. (Sure hope I spelled 'Bruton' right!)

Walking Buddy and Misty on the beach. (They are shelties.)

Paw-prints of Buddy in the sand.

Michaela being silly.
A bear at the natrual bridge.

The happy wedding of the Hoppers, some paperdoll bunnies!

Hope you enjoied my pictures! Bye!

Octopuses again!

Hey, my Poppy came across this incredible video of an octopus.

October!

Hi! Did you know today is the first day of October? That means fall! I love fall! Don't you? The leaves are so pretty, and you get to rake them, and you get to carve pumpkins, and play outside because the weather is perfect! Yes, I like fall.


Also, on October 4 we celebrate St. Francis of Assisi, So I will have a cool post for people who like animals!


And last, please notice that I added a book list! This book list will change each month, and I will continue adding books on all October. Bye!

Octopus!

Hello! Today I am going to write about one of my favorite things. Octopuses! Did you know it is my favorite animal? Well, it is, no matter how crazy it sounds. Go to youtube.com and look up octopuses, and I guarantee you will be amazed, or at lest, I guarantee you will see why it could be my favorite animal. Ok, I've got to go! Bye!

Pancakes.

Do you want to know a very strange fact about me? That fact is that I hate pancakes! Yes, this is true. I hate them, because they are not filling, and not very yummy. And the rest of my family loves them. So, alas, I must eat pancakes on days like today. OK, I won't say any more.

Seed Id Results!

I got 6th place! I also got a check for a bit of money! I didn't even know you got a check for 6th place! Well, I had fun. While there I got a couple of cows to be my models, and read, and drew some more, and read some more and drew... Ok, you get the idea. But it was fun!

Sick.

Oh, we're sick. We've gotten the flu. I feel rotten. Well, actually, I felt rotten yesterday, and today I feel as though someone scraped the rotten part out, and left a tiny rotten part still in. Oh, well. And guess what, the fair ends in two days, and we still haven't gone. I really want us all to get better SOON!

Well...

The seed ID is today! I wish myself luck!


Also, I learned that although St. Bernadette died a LONG time ago, her body remains uncorrupted. Weird! Freaky! A miracle!


Homework: Find out what year she died.

Fair!

Hey, the fair is this week starting... Today! I'm going to enter Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies, for the recipe click here. Well, I'm also entering a paper doll collection, a painting of St. Benedict and St. Scholastica (I don't think I spelled it right, but she's St. Benedict's sister.) Pretzels, that will be in the Sunshiny Cookbook soon, and some other items. I'm also doing a huge seed ID thing that I was in last year, (I won 3rd place in about 150 people, not exaggerating!), and our 4-H group put up a booth about Childhood Cancer. Getting ready has NOT been easy, though.

School!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know this may sound crazy, but I can't wait for school! I love school so much! (except for math.) This year I'm in 7th Grade, and I'm going to be learning world history and stuff like that. Oh, I just can't wait!

Back.

Well, were back from our totally awesome, incredibly sweet, amazingly fun trip to North Carolina/Virginia Vacation! I miss everybody so much! Well, I guess I can't say it isn't pretty nice to be back home... no place like home!





But I still miss good ol' Virginia.

Trip!!!!

This week... in fact tomorrow, we are starting on our vacation trip! We've packed all our stuff! (well, toys...) and us kids are ready to go! There will be lots of cousins and dogs and that equals fun! Well, goodbye for now! Oh, and my summer fun list is:



Swimming.
playing with sand.
playing with family.

oh, and

playing with dogs.

oh, and... ugh! there's so much to do in summer, I can't write it all down!




And on lazy Sunday afternoons read The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall and The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright. They're really good! Have a good summer vacation!

New link

My friend "Old Woman" made a blog! She's only got a handful of stories, but they are very good. So go see what (might!) have happened when she was young.

ps. it's called Stories From the Lighthouse.

An Ode to Poppy

I love you very, very much,
You mean the world to me,
I love your gentle touch,
So here's to you, Poppy!

-By your loving daughter

map

This is my visited states map now.


This was it several years ago. Look carefully, NOTHING'S DIFFERENT!!!!!!!!!




create your own visited states map
or check out these Google Hacks.

Sunday?

This sounds really silly, but I thought that today was Sunday! I woke up and got my dress already, ate breakfast, and took a bath. But, as I was hopping out of the tub, I thought, wow, how time flies! It seems like yesterday was Wednesday! Then, I realized yesterday WAS Wednesday! So that is why I wore a dress today.


(Hehe)

Happy Mothers Day, Mommy!

My new blog

Hey, guess what? I've got a new blog! It's called The Sunshiny Cookbook. Click here to see it.