Gingerbread Train

For Christmas, my cousin Emma, my brother Christopher and I got a Gingerbread Train kit from our Great Aunty Lesle and our Great Uncle Col. On Boxing Day, Emma and I made it with the help of my Mum Tamara. We started off with heaps of little pieces. Then we made the icing and put the icing into the icing bag we borrowed from Granny. The icing bag was hard to use so we let mum do the icing (even she was struggling.)

Emma did the train and I did the carriage. Then we chose all of our pieces according to the box. Then we got the bases and stuck everything on with icing. It was great FUN!

By Emma and Catherine.

Mulberry Ice cream

When my cousin Emma came over we invented a recipe. It is called mulberry ice cream.

Recipe for mulberry ice cream:

1. Put 5 scoops of vanilla ice cream into a bowl.
2. Buy or pick about 12 mulberries.
3. Mix until ice cream is purple.
4. If it is not sweet enough add some ribena.
5. Freeze it and if the ice cream was made about midday it should be ready about 6:30 p.m.


It should feed about 3 children.

Australia Zoo

My family and I went to the zoo and I fed an elephant named Siam.

On the latest holidays Emma came up...again and we went to the zoo with mum/Aunty Tamara and it was great!
I got my picture taken next to a wedged tail eagle, we watched the eliphants going to the eliphant show in single file (a line). I suported the tigers because they are almost extinct and beacuse I love them, Emma and I played in the sprinklers they have there and found two rainbows, next we bought ice creams. Emma bought a lenyard, I bought a wrist band saying..."wildlife warrier", then we went home.
We had SO much fun that day!

Sanitarium

In my schoolwork, I had a technology unit and I had to create a toy that made kids eat healthier. I came up with the idea of a "Snack-o-saur". It is sort of like a lunch box and it has an opening head you put health bars inside it. The names are Brachio-snak, Raptor-snak, Diplodo-snak, Tricero-snak, Tyranno-snak.

Once I thought of the idea, my dad thought that it would be good if we actually tried to make it so we sent a letter to Sanitarium Health Foods saying that we would like you to make up a health food bar and make the toys. They sent me a letter back saying that they sent it on to the product manager and sent me this shirt.

Bookshelf Disadvantages and Advantages

My dad made these beautiful bookshelf for us and painted them white.
Then he put them into place, but alas. He realised he made one of them too high! So he now has to fix it. (To bad for him).

Now he's fixed them and they look great. He also put the books n the shelfs and like I said it looks great!

Birthday delight

On the weekend my family and I went to my granny's house for her 70th birthday and my cousin Emma was up there! I had not seen her for what seemed like ages and it felt great to see her again.

we played a computer game called the SIMS CITY and it is so cool.
The night after that it was granny's birthday and who would of thought she was turning 70!
We went to Sizzler a restaurant for dinner and granny opened her gifts from us there. My family and I gave granny a very pretty purple photo album and a book of photos of our whole family.

Emma and I also played this American dragon game on the internet.

when we had to leave I tried to take Emma with us but mum and dad didn't allow it so we had to leave without Emma.

Leisa and Joel

Aunty Leisa is my aunty who lives in America and Joel is my cousin who lives with aunty Leisa and his dad. They visited us recently but they are back in America now. They only come and visit every 2 or 3 yrs. Joel and I email though and thats a good thing. We are also starting to skype, but we have not done any today.

Joel is 14 turning 15 this year and the next time I see joel and Leisa Joel will be about 17 or 18!

I would say 2 or 3 years is to long for me, but like I said we email each other.

Deadly and Dangerous

Some rays have kidney-shaped organs on each side of their backbone. When touched, or while hunting pray, the rays body can discharge an electric currant that can reach 220 volts! Electric rays move slowly and usually lie in sand or mud.
They stun prey such as small fish, crabs, and worms. The electric current passes through the water, and the human victim of an intense shock may be knocked out, or lose the use of their limbs and risk drowning.

Spiders inject venom into their pray through hollow fangs. The venom kills small victims. It also breaks down their body tissues into liquid, so the spider can suck them up.

The Blue-ringed Octopus, the deadliest octopus in the world is found along Austrailas rocky shorelines.

Bedtime

My new bed has finally been installed, and I can finally sleep in a proper bed. The last few days I've been sleeping on my matres on the floor but now I can sleep in my bed.

My bed in our last house was a lot like my new one now, the only difference is the ladder, the height and the desk. My new one now has ladders on both sides and they have longer gaps it also has a desk and chair that come with it, and it is shorter.

My actual bedtime is eight O' clock p.m!

Family membership

My family names including mine,

William,Valda,William,Bradley,Linda,Elizabeth,Tamara,Emma,Beau,Colette,Leisa,Annika,Sanne,Garry,Christopher,Eli,

Joel,Peter,Anny,Adrian,Col,Leslie, and finally me Catherine.



All about my family William is my cousin and he is only a few months old! The other William I mentioned is my pa. Tamara is my mother who I call mum,she does most of the house work though.Garry is my dad who I mention all the time. Christopher is my brother,he also started up a blog when he was 9 years old,he is disabled and has diabetes. He is now 11.

Joel is one of my cousins and so is Emma.

Train Station

If you go down to the Mooloolah town you will see a train station, go onto the platform, sit down on a seat and wait a few minutes and a train will go past, wait another few minutes and another train will go past!



I went down to the train station today with dad and waited for a train witch we thought had our friend on it but unfortunately it didn't. So our poor friend was late but he caught a bus and a taxi to the train station, and finally we took him home with us.

He gave us three gifts, a box of extra long and extra thick matches, a flower and for mum and dad a bottle of wine with a pretty purple ribbon on it. (I now have that ribbon on my bike).

We gave him a nice lunch and then he had to leave!

Fern City

My Dad and I are creating a Fern Farey Fen with a corner of our block of land. There is an opening of trees and you walk inside and you fell just wonderful,when you look there is a huge cloud of ferns surrounding your feet.When you look down you see a deep gully,when you look up you see tall trees.
Dad is making a table,chairs,plates and cups out of wood for fern faerys!

Introduction

Hi, my name is Catherine.

This is my first time to start up a blog and I am only nine years old.

This is a photo of my dad and I on our electric scooter. Electric scooters are very expensive machines but are definitely worth it!

Our garden is huge because we own 2 acres of land including our house.

I am being home schooled for a year because we

just moved house for the first time since I was 2 years old.

Here is a picture of our family cat named Hermione fast asleep falling off the couch.

Hermione is a very funny cat because of lots of things but I will only tell you one thing. This morning I was dragging a piece of string along the ground past the cat and she chased it but when I did it again she ran away with her tail puffed up!