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.

Movie Review of Nim's Island

That is Nim swimming with her sea lion, Selkie. Where the movie takes place is an island and her dad is a scientist. He is going to do some research for two days and he leaves Nim alone on the island. All alone. Her father tells her, "No parties!" But she disobeys and has a party with Selkie and Fred the bearded dragon lizard (he's tiny). Galileo is her pelican, flying in the sky.

While her dad is gone, some people try to invade the island. Nim says to Selkie, "This is our island! No one will touch our sand. When my dad gets back, I will tell him we protected this island!" People are on a cruise ship and there are four captains leading four boats to the island. Selkie comes and tries to chase them away by making toots in the water to make it smell like rotten dead fish. [Blogging interrupted by uproarious laughter.] It doesn't chase the people away but Nim says quietly, "You did your best, Selkie." Then Nim says, "Fred, call to your friends." He goes, "BAAAAA!" which is "Help!" in lizard. Nim has lots of baskets tied to big rubber bands and she puts the lizards in the baskets and launches the lizards and they go, "BAAAA!" as they fly in the air at the tourists and land on them.

Then Nim climbs up to the volcano and sets a fire to make the people think it's going to erupt. And they run off to the boats and some trip on lizards on the sand.

Nim gets a five-inch cut but don't worry, she heals. And the writer Alexandra Rover, the author of Alex Rover books, comes to rescue Nim because she's all alone. She tells Nim, "I'm Alex Rover." Nim was expecting a man. And then Alexandra says, "Alexandra Rover...the writer!"
Later in the movie Alexandra Rover gets frightened by a flying lamp, but it's Nim holding a lamp on a standing zipline.

Alexandra brought a can of soup with her but the sea lion, Selkie, ate it! During their dinner,
Alexandra asks, "How long has your father been gone?" Nim replies, "Four days."

Then Nim cries because she doesn't see her dad coming back. It ends happily; he comes back and they become a family.

I think you should watch it. It is at Redbox video machines. Since there is a volcano and Nim gets cut, you should be about eight to forty-four to watch this movie. I think you'll enjoy it.

Grass Sledding!

I have a huge hill outside my house. A couple of weeks ago there was snow. There wasn't much snow but we decided to go sledding anyway. We didn't have much luck at all; mostly we sledded on grass! But it was fun anyway.

Mama Post: December 15

Carlyn has been planning to share a video we made at the San Diego Zoo last month. She's been so busy with school, the church Christmas program and her usual activities, that I decided to post it for her.