Rebecca

Rebecca hasn't written any entries lately, so I thought I would post a couple of her recent amusing comments. We had tater tot casserole for dinner. She claimed not to like it. When told to eat it anyway, she yelled dramatically "but you know I don't like teeter totters!" Later she and Samantha were arguing over who had to shower first. They decided to settle the issue with rock, paper, scissors. After Samantha won three contests, Rebecca said "O.K., you can get in the shower first." Samantha was not pleased.

The Bat by George

Once upon a time, there was a bat that couldn't fly. It tried and tried, but still couldn't fly. One day, when it was trying to fly, it fell. It fell faster and faster. It landed in a pile of stinging nettles with a fwump. It got up and tried to fly out, but it couldn't, so it walked out of the nettles. Instantly it was attacked by wolves. As the wolves ate it, its last thoughts were "Oh why couldn't I fly" and "I hope I  poison them". As it happened the bat did poison the wolves. They dying and when they died they became ZOMBIES! They bit the other wolves and the Zombie Apocalypse began. And the world ended.

The Bat that Couldn't Fly

Once upon a time, a baby bat was sitting in it's nest when a falcon dove and ate it. Its last thought was I never got to see if I could fly. The falcon choked and fell to the ground. A witch came and she put the falcon in her cauldron. She meant to make a flight potion, but since there was an undigested bat inside the falcon, she made poison. When she drank it, she died.
by Samantha (in the style of George)

Poetry

Apple

apple, apple all around
apple, apple on the ground
apple, apple in a tree
apple, apple with a bee
apple, apple on a tee
apple, apple in my pee
apple, apple all around
apple, apple on the ground

Riddle

These animals have a trunk.
Their bodies are a hunk.
People ride them,
they've only bit some.
These animals don't wear pants.
We call them ELEPHANTS!

by Samantha

We had to take a test that involved writing a story that had to be chosen from different  categories, and mine was An Exciting Day. So here it is. One day, the mother was preparing breakfast. She decided to make rice pudding, with orange juice to drink. She mixed together the rice pudding, and pu it in the microwave. Then she opened the cupboard door to pick up the cups, and suddenly, they multiplied!  Now, there were twenty cups on the floor. She tried to pick up another cup. Again, it multiplied. This time, she held on. And this time, the cup grew teeth. They twisted into into what could only be described as a smile. And then the cup bit her. She screamed, and dropped the cup. She tried to run, but every time she touched a cup, it multiplied and grew teeth. Her shoes where missing large chunks out of them. She was almost out of the kitchen, when she tripped on a cup. She fell, and the cup multiplied. As she tried to get up, the cups rolled to her, their fanged mouths smiling. She opened her mouth to scream, as the cups rolled over her, but she never got the chance. Then her two daughters walked out of their rooms. They, however, got the chance to scream once, and no more.                                                                        
By George

April Fools Day

So far today I have been sprayed by the sink sprayer, my lotion replaced by a stuffed animal, the laptop replaced by a pillow, and a bucket of confetti dumped on my head when I went to the bathroom. The first was George, second was Rebecca and the last two were Samantha. Samantha also made lunch. Ham and mashed potatoes with banana split for dessert.

Guess the real ingredients. It was really cute. Rebecca and Samantha stole all of George's clean underwear and Samantha took the Lego ship that he was building and replaced it with a horse game. He blamed Rebecca for that one. Fun day today. If you are fond of pranks. Which I'm not. I'm feeding them cereal for dinner.:)

the baby dragon.

For journal writing we had to right a story titled The baby dragon. so here it is! Once upon a time, two kids were walking in a cave, looking for treasure. Then, they saw the egg. To them, it looked like a colorful rock, not an egg. the boy, who's name was Jack, said: " oh! Cool! Treasure!" " lets take it home," said the girl, who's name was Jennifer. " It would make a cool thing to show people. So they took home. A week later, they heard a sound in there room. " lets go check it out." Whispered Jennifer. They climbed up the stairs, and when they opened the door, they saw what looked like a little lizard, standing in the pieces of it's egg. " what is it? whispered Jennifer, shocked. " I think it's a baby dragon." Said Jack, also shocked. The dragon, if that was what it was, looked them in the eye, and they heard in there minds, a voice, saying: " your minds are mine," It said. " surrender them to me!" And so they raised the dragon, doing it's bidding, and it grew larger, much larger. one day, Jack and Jennifer returned home from school, to find the fully grown dragon gone." Where is master?" Jack said dully. Unknowingly, they had raised the end of the world.                                                                                   George                                                                         

Imagination

Just to inform anyone who might wonder, Reeper is a rat, General and Frodoricka are turtles. They were assigned to imagine if pets could talk, what would they say. They came up with the interview idea themselves and then expanded. I'm just glad they wrote more than the required 5 sentences!

The Reeper Interview

1. Q.Where did you come from before the pet store?
     A. I was in the jungle, smaller than your house, much smaller than your house, rat size.

2.  Q. What did you eat in the jungle?
      A. I ate mostly stuff I could I could find. Leaves with some tiger. That's what I mostly ate.

3.  Q. How did you get to the pet store from your palace?
      A. I was in my car, about to go for a drive, when I pressed a button that was just installed by my car fixer, cause it was broken the last time I went up a mountain. I pushed the button to see what it did. It boinged all the seats and I boinged out. Then it boinged me a long way. After that, I landed by the pet store. They brought me in and fed me food, but no tiger.

4.  Q. Why do have that pattern on your back?
     A.  When I was born, my mother had that pattern, so I had that pattern.

By Rebecca

The pet discussion

General, Frodoricka, and Reeper were all sitting in a very formal room, at a very formal table, in very formal clothes. General put his elbows on the table, his fingers together, and said, "Now, you may all be wondering why I asked you here today." Reeper yawned. "Can we not do this tonight, in a suite, wearing tuxedos?" "Hey!" said Frodoricka. "All right," said Reeper, "you may wear an evening gown." "Nobody understands you the way I do", said General, trying desperately to be in the conversation. "Awww" said a maid, who was cleaning during the whole conversation. Everybody stared at her for a long time. Finally, someone spoke. "Anyway" said General, trying to regain his audience. "We'd all be asleep then,. It's your fault you're nocturnal." "I think that animals who only stay up during the day are...err...ungrateful." said Reeper. "Who are you calling ungrateful?" said Frodoricka. "Why are you even awake anyway?" "Oh," said Reeper, "I stay awake until 7:45, yet it is only 6:00am." "Hey" said the maid, whose name was Gertrude, "I've got the President on the phone. He's heard everything you've said and wants you to be Spys." He wants you to be at the White House at 9:00 sharp, in two days." She listened to the phone for a minute. "He also want you to be on a team together." She left the room. "OH NOOOOOOO!!!" yelled Reeper, forgetting his oily manner. "What are we going to dooooooo!?!"
by Samantha

to be continued

My Interview With General

Samantha - How many times have you tried to escape?
General - Too many times to count! When I stopped counting, about three years ago, I was at 553!
S - Where did you used to  live?
G - I used to be King of the Three-toed Box Turtles in Missouri. I lived in a palace bigger then your house!
S - How did you get here?
G - My palace lit on fire and my people all died. I went adventuring and when I was too tired to go on, I stopped and rested. Then you found me.
S - Who is the love of your life?
G - Frodoricka! I recognized her to be my playmate from my childhood.
S - How would you decorate where you live?
G - Oh, first I would put in walls, separating the bathroom, the bedroom and the dining room. There would be tapestries on the wall, a table in the dining room, and a feather bed in the bedroom. There would be a toilet and a sink and a jacuzzi in the bathroom.
S - Thank you, for your time.

Interview with Frodoricka

1.Q:"What's it like to be a turtle?" A:" Boring. When your in a plastic tub, there's not much to do".
2 Q:  "If you could be any other animal, what would you be?" A:"A T-Rex, because the predators wouldn't pick on me".
3 Q: "Um, okay. What is your favorite food?" A:" Red apples.I love them!" :)
4 Q: "Who is your favorite acquaintance?" A: "Hmm, tough one. I don't think it's that Reeper guy, he's kind of creepy. Not that Orange Spot either. He wasn't very friendly. I'd say it's a tie between the person who gives me warm water, ( love that):) and the turtle next door."
5 Q: "Okay, last one. Whats your favorite thing to do?" A:"Taking a walk outside, and sometimes if I'm lucky, I'll find a tasty snack of fruit and bugs." "Well, that's all the questions, see ya!  


I also wrote a conversation between the pets, and here it is:
 Frodoricka: "Hey General, watcha doing"?
General: "Snore".
Reeper:"He's obviously sleeping, duh"!
F:"There's no need to be mean,
 Reeper". R:"I can be (beeeep!)  mean if I (beeep) want to!"
F:"Reeper, stop cursing.
R:"Beeeeeeeeeeep!
 G:"Huh? What's going on?
F:"Reeper's cursing us out in rat".
 R:"Squeak, squeak, (grinding of teeth.) squeak ,squeak !
 G:"Oh. Well, that's annoying".
F:" Uh-hu".
R:" Squeak, squeak( gnashing of teeth) squeak squeak"!
G:" Is he ever gonna stop"?
R:" Squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak"!
F:" Nope.
R; Breathlessly, "Squeak, squeak,squeak, oh, I give up"> (Reeper falls over.)Fump! " Snore"!
F:"Well, I stand corrected."
F:"General? General?
G:" Snore".
F:" Oh, well. I guess I should sleep to". Frodoricka falls asleep. "Snore".                                                                        THE END       George                                                  

If I could paint my room...

If I could paint anything I wanted on my walls, and if I was a really good painter, I would paint Harry Potter things. I would paint Harry, Ron, Ginny, Hermione, and Dumbledore. They would all have mad faces and would be pointing their wands to the other wall. On the other wall would be Voldemort, Bellatrix, Lucius, Draco and Narcissa, all with mad faces and pointing their wands at Harry and the good guys. Mommy says that this would scare me, especially if I was a really good painter and made it look real. Maybe, maybe not.

Samantha

wham!

On Saturday morning, I was collecting  icicles from the sides of the house for Kati and Johan, my friends when I slipped on some ice I had carefully avoided. When my head hit the ground, every thing was in slow motion. I couldn't see very well, just blurred colors. Then the garage door opened and mommy came out. She helped me inside, and I sat down in a chair. She checked my eyes to see if I had a concussion. She checked my head to see if it was bleeding. It wasn't. It was a little bit before I could see right. I went outside later, after my head stopped hurting.                                                                                                                                                      George      

the dinosaur in the backyard

I woke up, and saw a T . Rex in the back yard. I donned my Armour, picked up my mighty battle sword, and went out to do battle. I ran out, roaring: EULALIAAAAA! We clashed together! Bloodwrath was upon me! Wounded in a dozen places, I fought on. The battle ended when my sword flashed and the monstrous beast was without a head. Putting my foot on the beast, I raised my blood covered face to the sky, and once more shouted my battle cry: EULALIAAAAA! The battle was over.                                                                   George

The Dinosaur of the Samber of Checrets

One morning I got out of bed and went to my backyard. There was a portal. I went in it and found myself at a magic drinking fountain. I leaned over to get a drink when it disappeared and in it's place there was a big hole. I got sucked in and I saw that I was in a strange dark room. There were glowing red words on the wall that read "HELLO! WELCOME TO THE SAMBER OF CHECRETS. BEWARE OF DINOSAUR." The lights came on and I saw my sister laying on the floor. The strange thing was, she had dyed her hair flaming red today. Suddenly, a dinosaur came out. He was wearing a leash and a boy named Tom Rorvalo Middle was leading him. "Go kill the girl, Puffball. Go kill the girl" he said. Suddenly, a parrot came flying in. He was carrying a baseball cap. I put on my head and something landed on my head with a heavy thud. I took off the hat and out came a sword that said on it's hilt: Give me an S, give me and A, give me an M, give me an A, give me an N, give me a THA. SAMANTHA! I stood in a particular place, held up the sword, lifted my elbow, and BAM! I whacked that dinosaur's head clean of it's neck! The parrot yelled "out of the Park!" I ran around the room, grabbed my sister, grabbed the parrot's tail and the parrot brought us home. THE END.
by Samantha

The Pterosaur in the yard

One morning, I woke up and got out of bed. I went outside and got in my little play house. I looked out of my playhouse window and I saw a pterosaur. I got down as down as I could. I saw sparkles beside me. I stood up where none of the windows were so the pterosaur couldn't see me. The sparkles went away and something appeared. It was a magic drinking fountain and I got a drink from it. The drinking fountain was so magical that I looked in it and disappeared. I came out in the pterosaur world. I saw different types of pterosaurs. I came out sitting on dry sand of the pterosaur world. I got up and walked around trying not to be seen. I thought to myself, "I must be like a mouse to them". When I was seen, I ran to where the fountain was, got a drink and left the pterosaur world. But when I was noticed the pterosaurs followed me but they were tiny when they came out. I came out of my playhouse. I wondered how the first one was so big while the others were so small. I went inside my house and the pterosaurs followed me. I went to one of the bathrooms, looked in a drinking fountain. The pterosaurs thought I had gone back into their world, so they jumped into the fountain. I had slipped away fast. I went to tell my brother and sister and they never believed me. I was very tired, but it was the best day of my life.
By Rebecca

The Sail of the Mustang

Hello, I am at the beach. It is night. Someone is sailing at night. I went to get a closer look. It was Pirates! I was captured. I found out that the captain had died, but when the ship started sinking in a storm all the pirates jumped off the ship and into the lifeboats. Secretly, I jumped on to one of the lifeboats and sailed back to the beach. It was daytime. Samantha, Kati, George, Johan were all there except got seasick when I took them on a ride. I got married and everybody else went to the beach afterwards. I was in a hotel. Everybody else went swimming at the beach. The Ghost of the sunken ship called the Mustang was still sailing on the seas. And we all lived happily ever after.
The End
Rebecca

My Journey on a Pirate Ship

Once I was at the beach with Johan, Kati and Megan. We saw a ship. It had a Jolly Roger flag on it. We got captured, but we got to be part of the crew. Two months later, Captain Davies died. I became Captain. Ten years later, the ship arrived on the same beach from the beginning of the story. I suddenly remembered it and told my friends. We all went to our houses. I found out that George had found his own pirate ship, sailed off and  is now living like a king in England. Rebecca went on a mission in France and was enjoying it very much. Soon I got married, had some kids, and me and my family went to live a life on the seas.
by Samantha

Snow

Today we are getting a lot of snow. Maybe over a foot! In the early winter, I made a cage for the turtles to try and escape from. It could hold in the General but could not hold in Frodoricka at all. Now the snow has covered the cage in about two hours. We put out a bucket to measure how much snow we got, and it's almost covered the entire bucket! We also took a picture at 8'o clock and another at 9. We plan on taking a picture every hour through out the day. When it's a bit warmer and the snow slows down a bit, I plan to build a snow Jabba the Hutt and probably a snow fort or house. I can't wait!                                                                          George

MineCraft

I like to play minecraft because it's fun. I like to make TNT with sand and gunpowder. I also make my pack of wolfs mate by feeding two some meat and then hearts start rising from their heads, to show their ready to mate. I happen to live in a dessert fortress. I also like to stay outside at night and fight monsters.                                               George

Rambles

Today I played the Oregon Trail on the computer. Two of my kids died, but I made it to Oregon! My children's names were Ginny, Ron, Hermione, and Harry. Ron was my favorite child, but he ended up dieing, along with Harry. At least Ginny and Hermione lived. And me. I have my yearly check up soon and we all have a dentist appointment sometime after that. The family obsession is currently a game called Minecraft. You can call me to learn more about the game. This is Samantha Lambert, signing off.

Food: It's a learning experience

George was in charge for meatless this week and he cooked out of the Redwall Cookbook. I don't remember what it was called in the book, but it was savory vegetable pancakes. Made with potatoes, parsnips, carrots, onions and binding agents. First time for parsnips, they added a little sharp/sweet taste. George started out hand shredding the veggies, but soon went with the food processor. He said hand shredding would build muscles and was good for you. I suggested eating in a reasonable amount of time was good for you too. I fried them up because I figured it would be faster. After the first batch, I made one big pancake in the pan and then cut it like hash-browns to flip. Dropping by tablespoons took to long. Samantha and I loved them, Rebecca immediately declared never again and George and Eric were on the fence. Definitely not the best main dish, but a yummy side in place of hash-browns or fries, I think.

George also made sugarless banana cake from his Star Wars Cookbook. Great breakfast cake, but I think next time we'll drizzle a little glaze over the top. Just to add a bit of sweet.

We went over the last few months of food experiments and for breakfast highly recommend Baked Oatmeal.  French Toast Strata and Caramel French Toast are good, but not for every day. (all Taste of Home recipes) For dinner we didn't like most of the meatless ideas. I'm thinking to try black bean burgers again, but with a different bread crumb. I think I used rye last time. Vegetable strata was nothing exciting. Potato soup was yummy and baked potato bar worked too. We'll keep on trying new things and expanding our horizons.

Book recommendation -
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities by Amy Stewart. Absolutely fascinating reading. Non-fiction usually is slow going for me. Not this book. I will be on the lookout for a cheap copy of my own. Borrowed this one from the library. 

My Birthday: What I got, What I did, What I ate.

On my birthday, I woke up and went into the living room for presents. First, Rebecca's was a book and dinosaur shaped chalk. George's was a Plush Turtle, which I named Tom Riddle. From Mommy and Daddy, I go a 1D book (One Direction - music group) and an alarm clock. The night before I had gone to Culver's with Daddy. On my birthday night, I had cupcake cheesecake for my birthday cake and that night I went ice skating with Megan McCann. It turns out I am really good at ice skating!

by Samantha

Things I have cooked

I have cooked pizza, cakes, pancakes, cheese, and lots of other things.I think they all taste good. like my blackberry and apple cake, and my cucumber bread. I meant to make zucchini bread but accidentally used cucumbers instead and it still tasted good.  I have also made dandelion salad. It tasted very bitter and nobody like it, including me, even drowned in salad dressing.                                                                                                                                                                                                  george  

Reading

So I was home sick today (I know Mom, I'm sick all the time) and I spent the time reading. Finishing a book I'd been working on all week, Valhalla Rising by Clive Cussler. Starting and finishing two books George had wanted me to read, Theodore Boone the Accused by John Grisham and How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell. And I read two kids books to Rebecca, one of which was Louise, the Adventures of a Chicken by Kate DiCamillo. I like Clive Cussler books, even though I'm not much on ocean going technology or old cars and planes. It's the whole adventure idea. And I like most of the books that George reads, likely because I taught him to read and have greatly influenced his reading selections by picking out books that look interesting to me and giving them to him to read. Theodore Boone is not bad because it's Grisham with less violence and no language. As for the other one, I liked the movie better. It's not a bad book, just not as enjoyable as the movie, which really had none of the same elements as the book other than names, so I shouldn't compare. Still, if I had to recommend, I'd say skip the book and just watch the movie. As for the chicken book, most amusing. Read it if you have the chance.