thistle & peach post

The green thingies that Nan-nan is holding I think are peaches.  They looked like peaches on the inside.  Because my friend named Benjamin stomped on one and Hudson and Sam said that that was a sign of a peach.

The purple flowers that Keturah was holding are called thistles.  Once, I pressed thistles and dandelions.  The dandelions, they started to change to the fluffy stuff that you blow off the flower.  The thistles were a little flat.

Remember, kids' noses don't come off . . . Moyer

bird nests

We saw this tree with two bird nests on it.  We were going to the gas trip to get gas.  Aunt Kendra was with us.

Remember, kids' noses don't come off . . . Moyer

my recipe

This morning the activity was:

My mom let us CO-OO-OK!  With real ingredients to make PLAY FOO-OOD!

The first ingredient was salt.  I shook it into my mixing bowl from the salt shaker. Next was the millet.  And then, we put a little bit of oatmeal.  And then some buckwheat, and then some water.  And then some guavas, and then some ginger.  And then some more millet.  And then some oatmeal again.  And then some dried guava.  I used all of my dried guavas.  I mixed them with a whisk.  It got pretty thick, and my whisk started to get lots of the ingredients in it so I had to hit it on the bowl.

I asked Keturah for some dough.  Then she let me have the rest, and I scraped it with my spoon, and I started mix-mixing, and then I put some ginger powder in it--a lot.  Then it got really brown--browner than Keturah's.  Browner than she made hers.

That is Keturah's bowl.  She's making it into brown milk using ginger powder.  I wanted to include one of Keturah's pictures just for fun.

Remember, kids' noses don't come off . . . Moyer

american chopper

I sometimes play with a tool, and I sometimes bring it outside. The tool has a wooden handle, and it has a curvy thing on the front, and it used to have the point thing, but it fell off.

It's called a battle ax.

And what I do with it, is I put wood down, and then I swing it onto the wood.  I get the sticks from all over places in our apartment complex.  I think it's kind of funny when I look for the sticks because I sometimes look for sticks in random places.  I found very long sticks close to our apartment, outside of the pool that used to have water in it.

I like playing with my ax. I think it's fun.  I learn lots of things.  I learn not to put my fingers near it because then I might get really hurt.  Today I hit myself on my fingers with the ax, and it felt like my finger fell off!  It's not metal; it's a wooden blade.  It's not that sharp or too sharp to cut off my finger.

Remember, kids' noses don't come off . . . Moyer

measure outside

I can't wait for my thermometer to get all the way to the top!  I think it might be . . . I wonder if it could . . . I wonder if it will . . . get as hot as a volcano when it gets up to the top!

My thermometer is long, and it's shaped like a oval.  The red line that goes up measures how hot it is outside.  My dad used zip-lines--put them through the holes on the thermometer--and zipped them to the bars outside me and Keturah's bedroom window.  I just look out the window, and you can see the temperature.

I check my thermometer every day since the day after Valentine's day.  Usually outside is 40 degrees.  Lately though, I've been checking it a lot more, and it's usually 40 or 60.  Today it's nearly 80 degrees.  I am excited and happy because it's nice and warm outside.

 I like being really hot.

Remember, kids' noses don't come off . . . Moyer

measure of markets

I noticed that Grandma, if she wants to go to a place like a market, she has to send her son there.  And he's pretty old.  He would be big enough.  I think she could just drive him there, and then wait.  They live in the UAE.

Here in China, we can go to the market--boys and girls can go there.  We just have to walk across a little street, up a few steps, and then we're finally inside.

That's a big difference between the UAE and China.

Remember, kids' noses don't come off . . . Moyer