Birds that I've Seen in the Winter in my Backyard

I have seen all of these birds in the backyard in the winter with my binoculars. We had an ice storm so the birds couldn't find food that easily. You know what we did for the poor birdies? We fed them. We had a birdfeeder where they landed on it and ate out of it. But it broke. So we bought a new feeder and filled it up and you know what? They ate all of the food in one day. We bought a special finch feeder. It's just for finches or other birds the same size as finches. We got a bird bell that they can sit on and eat. The bird bell is bird seed basically held together somehow. I don't know how.

The birds are all over the place in this blog post. I don't know why. But I hope you enjoy them anyway.

These birds are Goldfinch, Tufted Titmouse, Sparrow and Winter Wren

These birds are the Robin, Woodpecker, Bluejay, Cardinal and Mourning Dove.

These birds are the Black-capped Chickadee, Eastern Bluebird, and Mockingbird.

The Ice Storm at My House

I'm with a tree after the ice storm.
Toulouse is walking in the snow on our driveway. He is a good cat.

There was an ice storm at my house. The trees were snapping and I did not like that at all. I was afraid that if my mom was upstairs in the bedroom, the big Tree of Heaven in the backyard might fall on Mama's bed. But it didn't.

Nana and Kennaria, my mom's colleague, came out to our house because we have electricity and the city of Berea didn't. I love Kennaria and Nana. Kennaria was worried about her cat, Tam, so he came over, too. Tam is a good cat in the daytime but sometimes he scratches at night.

I have been out of school from Monday until Thursday, so far! Mom and I went swimming at Seabury Center one night on one of my snow days...well, ice days. I could dive very deep. And yesterday we tried sledding. The hill was really slick and I was riding in my green saucer and I leaned forward. It rolled over down the hill and I got snow in my face! I didn't like it.

I hope I get Friday off from school, too!

Restaurant Review: The Happy Dragon

These are my friends, Sydney and Shelby. Sydney is the little one

holding my hand. Shelby and I are both from Fuling Orphanage.

We went to the Happy Dragon to celebrate Chinese New Year last night!

If you live in Lexington, KY or come to visit, and you're hungry, you should go to the Happy Dragon. It has really good food...Chinese fooooooood!!!

It is a pretty restaurant and the servers are very friendly. They have egg drop soup and other soups. They have broccoli, but I'm going to tell you about some of my favorite things. I like the egg drop soup, the white rice, the orange pop, and they have gumballs (but Mama doesn't let me buy the gumballs). And they have vanilla ice cream!

The Explorium Post

In this post I'm going to tell you about a wonderful place called the Explorium in Lexington. It's a place to have fun and learn. Here's a link to their website: http://explorium.com/

When you pay you get a sticker; you might get an indigo, red, green or yellow sticker. There are three horses that you can climb on but one has a sign that says, "Please do not climb on my tail."

They have an area where you can play doctors and take care of babies and they have crutches.

There is a room for kids three and under with a fountain, but little kids can also go to the big kids' room.

There is a marble machine; you put marbles in it and they spin round and round and then they go to the hole in the bottom.

There is a bubble room and there is a big thing you can blow humongous bubbles with. There is a rope you can pull up and a big bubble comes out. It's pretty cool.

You should be at least two years old to go there.

Carlyn at the Airport

This is my friend and me, Captains of the 747. This is at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport in the play area. On concourse C, there's a playground, a tram and I got a milkshake at McDonald's. I went to Montana to visit my Grandma. This was on the way back to Kentucky. I wish I was in first class, but I was in coach.