Giant Turtle

Yesterday, Daddy and I went to the duck pond to feed the ducks. To our amazement, we saw a lot of hungry turtles too!!!!!!!  Some turtles had shells that looked like they they were covered in mud, and some had streaks of red on their shells. Towards the end, we saw a HUGE turtle the size of a pillow pet! It looked like one of his legs were cut off.  Poor turtle :(    

That was a nice surprise to see all those turtles when we were only expecting to see ducks.

Triple-Winner

First Meet of the Season

Girl's Best Friend

Happy First Day of Summer

Happy first day of summer everyone!
I had to wake up at 7:00 even though I don't have school today because I have swim practice, and boy am I grumpy. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr. My mood changed from grumpy to freezing after swimming. Brrrrrrrr!! Now I'm working on this blog while Mommy is making brownies and cookies for tonight's Pasta Night for the swim team. It's going to be one yummy night! We practically live at the swim club during the summer since I have practice every morning of the week and swim meets 1-3 times a week.

Father's Day Weekend

This weekend I went camping at Hickory Run State Park. I went with my parents, my friend Aidan, and his parents. Here is a "journal" of my trip:

Day 1

We're at the campsite already. We just found out that Aidan isn't coming until tomorrow. I'm totally bummed! We have some iced tea and set up the tent. It's time for dinner now. We have Italian style grilled chicken. It's the best chicken I've ever tasted. Now it's time for s'mores. Mmmmmmmm, so good! Bedtime now, good night.

Day 2

Why did you wake me up so early, mommy?!?! I guess I should stay up. We start the fire again. Then we hear a car. Yay, Aidan is here!!!!!!!!!! We go to the Boulder Field almost right away.
The Boulder Field is a field of boulders that you can hop across, it's about 1800 ft long and 400 ft wide. On the way over I catch a big black spider. I put it in a jar. When we finish the Boulder Field we go to the beach and have lunch. I'm playing in the weeds when I see something jump. It's a frog! Aidan and I catch it and put it in container. At the beach we catch a giant tadpole, two tiny silver fish, and a newt! Daddy,can I please keep the frog?!?!?!?!?!?! His response: "You have to let it go on the last day!" I guess I'm okay with that but I kinda wish I could keep it longer :(.

Day 3
Today is Father's Day and all I want to say is "Happy Father's Day" to all those loving dads out there, especially my Daddy! He's the best daddy in the whole wide world.  

It's also the last day of camping. Rats! Today I have to let Froggy go. We have decided to go on a 1 mile hike called the Blue Trail which connects to Pine Hill Trail. Aidan and I race ahead of everyone else. Yes! We're finally back at the campsite. We don't have enough wood left to make a fire so we just sit around and eat lunch. Now it's time to leave. We drop Froggy off at the stream on the way home. I'm reading when......Ahhhhh!!!!!! Big black bear crossing the road and stopping traffic. Oh great, Mommy failed to take a picture AGAIN. That was one fun camping trip!!! I hope Aidan and his family can come again next year.

Doggy(Me), this is Knight Stallion. Knight Stallion(Aidan), this is Doggy.

THE END

French Creek Iron Tour

Today I did a 32 mile bike ride called French Creek Iron Tour.
Here are the pros and cons about the ride:

PROS

• The weather was perfect 
• The bike was in excellent condition 
• The parents were in good shape
• The kid was in even better shape :)
• The food was yummy
• The two cover bridges were cool
• Doggy got to come along
• There were two rest stops that had bathrooms

CONS

• The bathrooms were actually porta pottys
• There were more uphills than downhills
• I got a scratch from my bike
• My feet got sweaty and smelly
• Doggy was no help at ALL
• It took a longggggggggggg time (3 1/2 hours)
• My butt is sore
• Daddy is too tired to play with me now

Doggy taking a potty break

Lucky Me

My friend Mandy gave me a big pile of clothes. Lucky for me, she has such good taste in clothes and the clothes smell nice and clean. How did she know I needed a new jacket?
There is a very silky pink PJ (or as my mom calls it a dress) that I love.  It has dogs on it.  So chic!!!!!!
 I wish Mandy were here to settle the argument. Or maybe one of you followers out there could take a vote?  I think I'm right though.

So Chic! Please Vote by scrolling all the way down to the very bottom of the page.

VOTING CLOSED


"PJ" is the winner by a vote of 12 to 7.  
Thanks everyone for voting!

                                     

Playdate

Today, I had a playdate with two boys, Patrick and Eric from my class.  I had a lot of fun. First we had a water gun fight, then we went inside to get dry and played the Wii. Next, we played hide and seek and had a sword fight. I like the sword fight part because it's more fun with 3 people. Then my Mommy picked me up. (I did not like this part.) That was a great playdate.  It is so much more different then with girls.

Happy Birthday Nana!

Dear Nana,
I'm sorry that I didn't have time to make you a card until today. I've been super busy with school and eating ice cream, but now it's too late to send a card.  I hope you are reading this blog on your birthday.