Laina

I went on a walk yesterday, and guess what I saw?

A baby mole!!! Here, there's a picture:

Is it not so cute? 

Laina

Evelyn

Hi girl cousins! I went to Petco,I saw a gecko,Turtle,Ferrets,Mice,Rats,Kittens,Snakes and Fish!!! (One of the Ferrets bit Maggie!) I really wanted to buy a Gecko,But I couldn't. 

                      Love,

                           Evelyn                                                                      

                       P.S.I forgot the parakeets,green iguana and the guinea pigs. 

Laina

I know!!! Someone stepped on them! Do you like ants? I don't like them very much.

Laina

Maggie

I can NOT believe how many ants that is Laina!!!

Laina

 Count the leaves. There's five if you count correctly.

Look at how many ants there are!!

If you look closely enough, in the background you'll see a car on fire.
(Caden took these three pictures, the ants, and the car on fire)











Laina

Baby Monitor

I'm downstairs, and the baby monitor is on upstairs, where Auntie Meta, Emmett, Kai, and Wren are right now.  Wren is breastfeeding, and Auntie Meta commented that Wren appears to like one side better than the other.  It was postulated shortly thereafter that perhaps one was candy cane and the other chocolate fudge.  Exactly what I was thinking.

Uncle Alec

Pink and Blue!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi boy cousins!!!  Hi girl cousins!!!  P.S. I am a girl so I am going to use Pink.   But I might use Blue.

                                              Love,

                                                         Evelyn

Evelyn's lego mouse

 This is a mouse I made with legos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maggie

this is a picture the blue belly lizard, matches my fingernails!

Maggie

Evelyn just posted all those colors because she figured out how to make things colored.

Maggie

Colors

Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Purple Black Gray  

PINK Rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi girl cousins! I just went to my Neighbers house and caught a cockroch!!! Its insides poped out! Now I am going to eat my cupcake! 

Maggie

Moeki is here for like I don't know, three days? well I guess it's six days, anyway Mr. Cuddles (our bunny) was outside and we could not find him. Then, when we had looked all over the backyard I remembered the side yard and when I looked there I found him he looked super scared like a hawk had come and tried to pick him up.

Maggie

Evelyn

Hi Cousins! Moeki stayed here for lots of days! I slepted with her once and the other in Finley's room. We swam on the first day she was here we also had a stuffed animal parade!(it was for an early birthday for me).We are going to eat cupcakes to!

Evelyn

Eli

My dad told me to post this

Laina

Want me to tell you? Wait, do you mean the one that the words are stuck together? If you can't do that one, try to do this one: 

81 3152119914

Laina

Evelyn

Hi cousins! I just got out of the pool. We almost caught a Lizard this morning. I love gecko's so if you catch one,post a picture of it.

Maggie

Laina, I can NOT figure this out.:(

Laina

Try to read this:

Thiswasmylastdayofcheercamporcampspiritwhateveryouwanttocallitbutnotbadnamespleasebecauset-hatisrudeIdidashowitwasfunnowlistenupI'mtryingtomakethislong'couseIwantittobehardernowIcanch-oosetogotohappyhourwithmymomorWendysomeonemymomandIknoworIcangotoCaden'sbaseballpra-cticeIdon'tknowwhattopickwhatshouldIpick? 

Laina

P.S. You win gold if you crack this first. 

Laina

Today I saw a lizard Maggie did not cacth it cuse it was to fast

That's what it says.

Laina
P. S. I win!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Evelyn

Try to read this:  

TodayIsawalizardMaggiedidnotcacthitcuseitwastofast.                                                                                                                                              

The one who cracks the code first,is the winner!!!

Laina

Did you know there's such thing as a two headed snake? It's a freak in nature. Ask your mom or dad or older siblings to know what that means. I'm writing this because my mom sort of just told me to write a fact about something. 

Laina

Laina

If we ever all get back together again, we should take a picture with Wren. She isn't in the cousins rule picture. 

Laina

Laina

I'm barley awake now. I woke up at 7:06, but i'm like, almost falling back asleep.

It's fine with me if you want to leave it. The only thing is, though, to me the sign we were holding up doesn't really look like a title. Plus, i found a really cool picture where Emmett's jumping.

Laina

Maggie

I don't want to change the picture Laina.

Laina

We could call it cousins rule, like it says in the picture, but if you didn't want that we could also change the picture. I'm also going to sign my name normally starting now.

Laina

Maggie

Evelyn, What the heck! That does NOT make any sense!

Blog Title

I have no problem if you cousins want to rename the blog.  I like the "Cousins Rule" idea.  Oh!  I have an idea: Supercousinsruletheblogpostswithextrafactsandcoolpics.

Also, since all of you are on the edge of your seats waiting to find out the number you should not talk about in front of people...it's 288.  288 is 2 x 144, and 144 is "one gross," so 288 is too gross.  HAHAHAHA!  

Uncle Alec

PINK RULESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HI GIRL COUSINS!!! I JUST WENT TO MY CHURCH,BECAUSE FINLEY HAS TO DO WATER WATER EVERYWHERE. WHEN I WAS AT THE PARK YESTERDAY,I WAS LOOKING FOR LIZARDS,I SAW ONE,BUT THEN IT RAN AWAY,WE ALL GOT SIDE TRACKED ON MUD AND WATER. MAGGIE PUT A LOT OF MUD ON HER LEG,SHE PUT WATER ON IT TO. THAT IS A REALLY CUTE MOLE,LAINA!!!

Maggie Again:)

Actually, I think we should just call it Cousins Rule!

Maggie

Laina, I think we should just leave it how it is. Because the sign says "cousins rule" right? so if we leave it it's called Cousins Rule! Ok?

Laina

My mom says we can change the Whoa!Mesdag title and call it something else as long as Uncle Alec doesn't mind. Kai or Emmett, could you please ask your dad if he's okay with that?  If you're up for changing the name (with Uncle Alec's permission), write down some ideas we could re-name Whoa!Mesdag.


LAINA 

BOSSY SISTER!!!

Maggie is so BOSSY!!!

~Evelyn

Maggie

Yea, Auntie Robyn I like the new wallpaper.

Maggie

Auntie Robyn

Hi everyone, I added wallpaper and a picture to the top of the blog.  I hope you like it!

Laina

Uh...first place, I guess, Maggie?

Anyway,

SO COOL YOU GOT YOUR HOUSE! I'M USING THE BIGGEST HAND WRITING RIGHT NOW BTW! 

WASN'T IT THE HOUSE YOU WANTED? IF IT WAS, :)! IF NOT, WHATEVER. MAYBE THIS: 
:(

 Also, Hazel, i might make it look cool when i sign my name like you. :)

LAINA 

Maggie

Evelyn, that is not the way to spell "your".

Got you'r house!!!

COOL YOU GOT YOU'R HOUSE!!! 

Maggie

It says this Laina:
Hi I went to cheer camp I learned some cool cheers maybe I'll show you them I said maybe so I might not show all so my mom made mochi but she didn't make any plain ones so I don't want any.

Laina, what do I get because I figured this out?

Maggie

Eli

WE GOT IT WE GOT IT WE GOT IT
WE GOT THE HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hazel Again

WE'RE GETTING THE NEW
 HOUSE IN AMBLESIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -From Hazel

Hazel

We're leaving today. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't want to go. This is from hazel by the way... from Hazel

Laina

Try to read this:
HiIwenttocheercampIlearnedsomecoolcheersmaybeI'llshowyouthemIsaidmaybesoImightnotshowyoualsomymommademochibutshedidn'tmakeanyplainonessoIdon'twan'tany.
Whoever cracks this first is good at doing this stuff! But you have to write what is says with spacing.

Laina

Evelyn

Hay! I was suppose to answer that question, Maggie!

Maggie

It says: Hi Cousins I have't rote on the blog latly cuse we wer in flagstaff so I rote this.

Maggie

Caden

Evelyn do you think that you could tell us what that meant please?

Maggie

Evelyn missed spelled most of those words.

-Maggie

Evelyn

HicousinsIhave'troteonthebloglatlycusewewerinflagstaffsoIrotethis.                                       

You have to split the words in half to see what it says. :) 

                                    

            Love, 

                     Evelyn

Camping in Flagstalf

Hi Cousins! I went camping in flagstalf for four days: friday, saturday, sunday and monday.We went with our friends, there names are Hayden, Hannah, Hunter and Harper, Hayden is 6 Hannah is 4 Hunter is 2 and Harper is 7 months.There was a park really close to our campsight so we were aloud to go to it by our selves, and I made a scavenger hunt and then Hayden wanted to do one to and I had to do the wrighting :)  Evelyn cought a lizard and it was super fat. Me and Hayden cought a ton of grasshoppers (I think we cought 8) we could go in the woods by our selves.I got lost on saturday (I think) and I asked these people if they could call my parents because I know there phone number I also climed a dead tree(like half way up) Oh we went to a lake to!

Maggie

Hazel

Hi!! today I'm going to go swimming. I am so excited!!! but Emmett that video of baby Wren was very funny! Abby made cookies and mama made a breakfast cake. A snake for papa. A turtle for Eli. A butterfly for me. A bird for herself. I helped mama bake the breakfast cake. from hazel.

Laina

Emmett, that video is so funny!

Sorry I haven't been posting so much. I was in Gig Harbor, Washington to visit my grandma and grandpa. Also, I had to go to a wedding there too. My uncle was in the wedding, and he had to walk with his arms linked to a girls and walk whoever that girl was down the aisle.
Then we went to the reception, where there were lots of smokers.
The next day we played Poker, that game i introduced (well, a little:) to you, not how to play it, but you know.

Laina

Hazel

Hi!!!!!! We're house sitting on Whidbey island. We're going to go back on Tuesday. We brought Harvey. My dance recital is very very soon!!!! I can't wait for my recital. I got my dance pictures today. Also, on Tuesday I have my normal dance lessons. Did you know that Eli is writing this? (I was forced to write that one.) I'm just telling him what to write.

                                             -From Hazel

Abby

Hi! I just blogged because my mom stuck me on the computer and told me to. Nothing much has happened here that Eli or Hazel hasn't already blogged about. Except that in the wedding that Hazel was a flower girl in, I was a bridesmaid. Eli was a groomsman. It was really really really boring at the wedding and pretty much all I did was pose in pictures. At my sleepover, we made homemade sundaes which is vanilla ice cream with candy, either chocolate or caramel syrup, and a maraschino cherry on top. We also watched the movie The Princess Bride.

Eli

I am at Whidbey Island house-sitting for my grandparents. There is a beach you can walk to and a public pool. Abby had her birthday party here, her friends all came for a sleepover (weird people below). There are pictures of... Actually, just read the captions!

Abby's friends, me, and Hazel pushing a log into the water at the beach.

Hazel at the pool.

Hazel squirting poll toy (duh) at the pool (double duh).

Laina

Whatever! I copied them anyway so I don't know if they're all true. 

Laina

Emmett and Kai

Hey this is a video of Wren that I took.  She is so silly, I will let her do the talking. 

Maggie

You are right Emmett, I don't think all of those things are true too. But your post does not make since, I think you forgot to do the word "are".

Maggie

emmett

i don't think all those things true  laina

Kids Expo!

Yesterday, Me and Evelyn went to our church because there was a thing called kids expo and we went to it last year to. It is like they buy tons and tons of stuff and the kids get to buy it all with fake money there is food, stuffed animals, drinks, face painting, nail painting, hair dye, balloon animals,(you can watch the clown make them) magic shows and the inflatable obstacle courts were free and before we went to the expo we got to watch monsters university and when we watched monsters university we got to eat popcorn.

Maggie

WOW!!!

WOW!!! That is a lot of facts,Laina!

Maggie

I know, I read the whole thing.

Laina

OMG! Maggie, read fact number 114! It says...oh, i shouldn't tell you. Read it yourself!

Laina

Laina

You want might to read these facts...

1. Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
2. A newborn Chinese water deer is so small it can almost be held in the palm of the hand.
3. Ostriches can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.
4. A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
5. The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.
6. The only dog that doesn’t have a pink tongue is the chow.
7. Turtles, water snakes, crocodiles, alligators, dolphins, whales, and other water going creatures will drown if kept underwater too long.
8. Almost half the pigs in the world are kept by farmers in China.
9. On average, dogs have better eyesight than humans, although not as colourful.
10. Deer have no gall bladders.
11. There is an average of 50,000 spiders per acre in green areas.
12. Snakes are carnivores, which means they only eat animals, often small ones such as insects, birds, frogs and other small mammals.
13. In Alaska it is illegal to whisper in someone’s ear while they’re moose hunting.
14. The bat is the only mammal that can fly.
15. The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
16. Some male songbirds sing more than 2000 times each day.
17. The only mammals to undergo menopause are elephants, humpback whales and human females.
18. The chicken and fish are the only animals that are eaten before they are born and after they die.
19. A tarantula spider can survive for more than two years without food.
20. For every human in the world there are one million ants.
21. If you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground it can’t hop – they use their tails for balance.
22. If you keep a goldfish. in a dark room, it will become pale!
23. Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
24. The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.” uses every letter of the alphabet.
25. The average fox weighs 14 pounds.
26. The scientific name of the red fox is Vulpes vulpes.
27. Alligators can live up to 100 years.
28. A single elephant tooth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
29. The turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America.
30. A housefly hums in the key of F.
31. During World War II, Americans tried to train bats to drop bombs.
32. Canis lupus lupus is the scientific name for a grey wolf.
33. To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaw, push your thumb into its eyeballs-it will let you go instantly.
34. It is much easier for dogs to learn spoken commands if they are given in conjunction with hand signals or gestures.
35. Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death!
36. Male rabbits are called “bucks,” females are “does.”
37. The flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.
38. Animals generate 30 times more waste than humans which is 1.4 billion tons every year.
39. Ants never sleep. Also they don’t have lungs.
40. A group of owls is called a parliament.
41. Just one cow gives off enough harmful methane gas in a single day to fill around 400 litre bottles.
42. Apple and pear seeds contain arsenic, which may be deadly to dogs.
43. Cows have four stomachs.
44. An anteater is nearly 6 feet long, yet its mouth is only an inch wide.
45. The blue whale weighs as much as thirty elephants and is as long as three Greyhound buses.
46. A herd of sixty cows is capable of producing a ton of milk in less than a day.
47. A grasshopper can leap 20 times the length of its own body.
48. At birth, baby kangaroos are only about an inch long—no bigger than a large water bug or a queen bee.
49. The smell of a skunk can be detected by a human a mile away.
50. There is a butterfly in Africa with enough poison in its body to kill six cats!
51. Cats have lived with people for only 7,000 years.
52. A black panther is really a black leopard.
53. The honey bee has been around for 30 million years.
54. The dumbest dog in the world is the Afghan hounds.
55. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
56. A dog’s shoulder blades are unattached to the rest of the skeleton to allow greater flexibility for running.
57. Tigers have striped skin as well as their fur.
58. Hippos can run faster than humans!
59. The Latin name for moose is alces alces.
60. The earliest European images of dogs are found in cave paintings dating back 12,000 years ago in Spain.
61. Iguanas, koalas and komodo dragons all have two penises!
62. The kangaroo’s ancestors lived in trees. Today there are eight different kinds of tree kangaroos.
63. A woodpecker can peck 20 times per second.
64. The great horned owl has no sense of smell.
65. Scientists have performed brain surgery on cockroaches.
66. The flea can jump up to 200 times its own height. This is equal to a man jumping the Empire State Building in New York.
67. Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.
68. The very first bomb that the Allies dropped on Berlin in World War Two hit an elephant.
69. A garden caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
70. A moth has no stomach.
71. George Washington’s teeth were made of elephant ivory, and walrus tusks.
72. Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.
73. Goats and sheep are seasonal breeders.
74. An elephant can smell water up to 3 miles away.
75. Deer can’t eat hay.
76. A skunk will not bite and throw its scent at the same time.
77. In 2003, Dr. Roger Mugford invented the “wag-o-meter” a device that claims to interpret a dog’s exact mood by measuring the wag of its tail.
78. Every day of the year, 100 whales are killed by whale fisherman.
79. If you cut off a snail’s eye, it will grow a new one.
80. The ostrich has two toes on each foot which gives it greater speed.
81. Lonomia obliqua is the world’s deadliest caterpillar.
82. ‘Jaws’ is the most common name for a goldfish.
83. The most dogs ever owned by one person were 5,000 Mastiffs owned by Kubla Khan.
84. On average, cows poop 16 times per day!
85. The phrase “raining cats and dogs” originated in seventeenth-century England. During heavy rainstorms, many homeless animals would drown and float down the streets, giving the appearance that it had actually rained cats and dogs.
86. The most poisonous fish in the world is the stone fish.
87. Killer whales are not whales at all, rather a species of dolphin.
88. Goats were the first animals domesticated by man in 10,000 B.C.
89. Dogs have sweat glands in between their paws.
90. The fear of animals is called zoophobia.
91. We share 70% of our DNA with a slug.
92. We share 98.4% of our DNA with a chimp.
93. Fireflies do not bite or have pincers. Fireflies are harmless, they don’t even carry diseases.
94. Chocolate, macadamia nuts, 
95. A python can swallow a rabbit whole and may eat as many as 150 mice in a six-month period.
96. The placement of the eyes of a donkey enables them to see all four of their legs at all times.
97. At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.
98. Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again depending on which is best for mating.
99. Fireflies are the only creatures that give off light without generating heat.
100. Hummingbirds beat their wings 60 to 80 times per second.
101. Only half of a dolphin’s brain sleeps at a time. The other awake half makes the dolphin come up for air when needed to prevent drowning.
102. Dogs have about 1,700 taste buds.
103. It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year’s supply of footballs.
104. A completely blind chameleon will still take on the colours of its environment.
105. A rodent’s teeth never stop growing.
106. When young abalones feed on red seaweed their shells turn red.
107. Small quantities of grapes and raisins can cause renal failure in dogs.
108. The hippopotamus is born underwater.
109. Taurophobia is the fear of bulls.
110. A bat can eat up to 1,000 insects per hour.
111. One million stray dogs and 500,000 stray cats live in New York City metropolitan area.
112. You can tell a turtle’s gender by the noise it makes. Males grunt, females hiss.
113. An elephant’s trunk has around 15,000 muscles. 200 litres of water is drunk from it per day.
114. The most popular female dog name is Maggie. The most popular male dog name is Max.
115. A large group of goats is called a herd.
116. Squirrels cannot see the colour red.
117. The average chicken lays about 260 eggs per year.
118. A starving mouse will eat its own tail.
119. Only 5 to 10 percent of cheetah cubs make it to adulthood.
120. Ferrets sleep around 20 hours a day.
121. Birds can recognise landmarks.
122. The starfish is the only animal capable of turning its stomach inside-out.
123. Male dogs will raise their legs while urinating to aim higher on a tree or lamppost because they want to leave a message that they are tall and intimidating. Some wild dogs in Africa try to run up tree trunks while they are urinating to appear to be very large.
124. Sharks have been around longer than dinosaurs.
125. About two-thirds of shark attacks on humans have taken place in water less than six feet deep.
126. Sharks are immune to cancer!
127. Worldwide, more people eat and drink milk from goats than any other animal.
128. Alligators cannot move backwards.
129. The most popular dog breed in Canada, America, and Great Britain is the labrador retriever.
130. The largest giant squid ever found weighed 8,000 pounds.
131. Approximately 100 people die each year when they are stepped on by cows.
132. A butterfly has 12,000 eyes.
133. Humpback whales create the loudest sound of any living creature.
134. Hippo’s sweat is pink.
135. Whale milk is 50% fat.
136. In Croatia, scientists discovered that lampposts were falling down because a chemical in the urine of male dogs was rotting the metal.
137. In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.
138. The swan has over 25,000 feathers in its body.
139. The blue whale is the largest of all whales and is also considered the largest animal to have ever existed in the world.
140. Giraffes have no vocal cords.
141. Starfish have eight eyes – one at the end of each leg.
142. There are almost 60 million dogs in the United States.
143. After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again.
144. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night
145.  onions, or anything with caffeine is harmful to dogs.
146. No two tigers ever have the same stripes, and this is how individual tigers can be identified.
147. The American Kennel Club, the most influential dog club in the United States, was founded in 1884.
148. The longest recorded life span of a slug was 1 year, 6 months.
149. A whale’s heart beats only nine times a minute.
150. Elephants are covered with hair.
151. Female koala’s have two vagina’s.
152. Back in 1924, a monkey was convicted in South Bend of the crime of smoking a cigarette and sentenced to pay a 25 dollar fine!
153. Flamingos are pink because shrimp is one of their main sources of food.
154. The Mayans and Aztecs symbolised every tenth day with the dog, and those born under this sign were believed to have outstanding leadership skills.
155. When a male tiger and female lion mate they make a tigon, when a male lion and female tiger mate they make a liger.
156. French poodles did not originate in France – they came from Germany.
157. The breeding age for male goats is between 8-10 months.
158. Elephants don’t drink through their trunks like a straw.
159. Baby whales grow to a 1/3 of their mother’s length in the womb.
160. Goats do not have teeth in their upper front jaw.
161. Goat’s milk is higher in calcium, vitamin A and niacin than cow’s milk.
162. Turkeys have a poor sense of smell, but excellent sense of taste.
163. Cats can hear ultrasound.
164. Tuna fish can swim 40 miles in a single day.
165. Bumblebees have hair on their eyes.
166. Penguins can jump 6 feet out of water.
167. Giraffe hearts pump twice as hard as a cow’s to get blood to its brain.
168. Blue whales have large enough aortas (the main blood vessel) for a human to crawl through.
169. Some dogs can smell dead bodies under water!
170. More than 45 million turkeys are cooked and eaten in the US at Thanksgiving.
171. Baby whales can gain up to 200 pounds per day.
172. Dogs have a wet nose to collect more of the tiny droplets of smelling chemicals in the air.
173. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
174. Cat owners are 30% less likely to suffer a heart attack.
175. Barn owls hunt mostly small mammals such as the short-tailed vole.
176. A ducks quack does echo, it’s just almost impossible to hear.
177. A cheetahs lifespan is up to 12 years in the wild.
178. Shark corneas are being used in human eye transplants.
179. Dogs are about as smart as a two or three-year-old child.
180. Butterflies have their skeletons on the outside of their bodies, this is known as the exoskeleton.
181. Arachnophobia is the fear of spiders.
182. Polar bears are the world’s largest land predators.
183. Hippos attract mates by urinating and defecating.
184. Butterflies can only see the colours red, green and yellow.
185. Yellowtail is the general name for loads of different species of fish that have yellow tails or a yellow body.
186. There are roughly twenty-four thousand species of butterflies.
187. A dik-dik is a tiny antelope that lives in East Africa, Namibia and Angola.
188. Dik-diks weigh between three and six kilogrammes.
189. Female polar bears normally start having baby cubs at the age of four or five.
190. Fireflies are also known as lightning bugs.
191. Noctule bats fly before sunset, whereas Pipistrelles appear soon after sunset.
192. In general, Asiatic jerboas have five toes on their back feet and African jerboas have three.
193. Even though a polar bears average body temperature is 37°C; they don’t give off any detectable heat, so they won’t show up in infrared photographs.
194. Dogs can see better when the light is low.
195. Dumbledore isn’t only the Headmaster of Hogwarts; in fact a dumbledore is an old English term for a type of bee.
196. Most young fireflies feed on nectar and pollen, although adult fireflies do not need to eat to survive.
197. 79% of pet owners sleep with their pets.
198. Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors.
199. Many species of owls have special feathers for flying silently.
200. An elephant can smell water up to 3 miles away.
201. The animal on the Firefox logo is not a fox, but a red panda.
202. There is only one pink bottlenose dolphinwhich has been discovered, in an inland lake in Louisiana, USA.
203. China has the most goats in the world, they have over 170 Million.
204. A chicken with red ear lobes will produce brown eggs, and a chicken with white ear lobes will produce white eggs.
205. One survey reports that 33 percent of dog owners admit they talk to their dogs on the phone or leave messages on answering machines while they are away.
206. The average dog can run about 19 mph.
207. The owl has a small brain.
208. Snakes do not blink.
209. A squid’s eye can get as big as a basketball.
210. A puppy is born blind, deaf, and toothless.
211. Agrizoophobia is the fear of wild animals.
212. There are currently over a million animal species upon planet earth.
213. There are over 70,000 types of spiders spinning their webs in the world.
214. If you have a fear of chickens, then you actually have Alektorophobia.
215. Dogs can see in colour, though they most likely see colours similar to a colour-blind human.
216. Dogs have lived with humans for over 14,000 years.
217. There are 3,000 kinds of lice in the world.
218. The life of a housefly is only 14 days.
219. The lifespan of 75% of wild birds is 6 months.
220. Denmark has twice as many pigs as there are people.
221. National Dance Like A Chicken Day falls on 14th May every year.
222. The sailfish can swim at the speed of 109 km/h, making it the fastest swimmer.
223. The crocodile’s tongue is unmovable, as it is attached to the roof of its mouth.
224. Greyhounds are the fastest dogs on Earth and can run at speeds of 45 mph.
225. The Basenji is the worlds only bark-less dog.
226. Goats are quite agile creatures and in some cases they can jump over 5 feet.
227. In 2006, 253 fish-species were listed as critically endangered.
228. The hippopotamus’s skin is protected by its own pink oily secretion known as ‘pink sweat’.
229. The Tyrannosaurus Rex went extinct 65 million years ago.
230. The Irish deer is the largest deer to have ever existed. It went into extinction approximately 7,700 years ago.
231. It costs approximately $10,000 to train a federally certified search and rescue dog.
232. The colour red doesn’t really make bulls angry; they are color-blind.
233. A herd of unicorns is called a blessing.
234. The oldest recorded elephant lived for 82 years.
235. According to records there are 50 million monkeys in the world!
236. There are an estimated 400 million dogs in the world.
237. Goats were the first animals to be used for milk by humans.
238. The U.S. has the highest dog population in the world. France has the second highest.
239. There are over 2700 types of snakes in the world and they live in deserts, forests, oceans, streams, lakes.
240. Cows from different areas have a different moo accent.
241. The male goat is called a “buck” or “billy”.
242. The female goat is called a “doe” or “nanny”.
243. A baby goat is called a “kid”.
244. Dog nose prints are as unique as human finger prints and can be used to identify them.
245. Ailurophobia is the fear of cats.
246. Ichthyophobia is the fear of fish.
247. Female bald eagles are 25% larger than males.
248. Frogs don’t drink water. They absorb water through their skin.
249. Suriphobia is the fear of mice.
250. There are over 210 breeds of goats in the world.
251. A polar bear’s outer fur is called ‘guard hair’.
252. An adult lion’s roar is so loud; it can be heard up to five miles away.
253. There is a shark called ‘goblin shark’ which has only been seen around 50 times since its discovery in 1897.
254. There are approximately 450 million goats around the world.
255. Dalmatians are completely white at birth.
256. A beaver’s teeth never stop growing.
257. Apiphobia is the fear of bees.
258. The average dolphin eats one-third of its weight on food each day.
259. Goats and octopus’ pupils of their eyes are rectangular.
260. African elephants only have four teeth to chew their food with.
261. The scales of a crocodile are made of certain, the same substance that hooves and fingernails are made of.
262. Crocodiles eat stones.
263. Crocodiles have brains no larger than a cigar.
264. Cheetahs were trained by man for hunting as long as 3000 BC.
265. Horses can’t vomit.
266. Both male and female caribou grow antlers.
267. Alternate American names for the Elk are the moose and the Wapiti.
268. A group of frogs is called an army.
269. Tigers can see 6 times better at night than humans.
270. Starfish don’t die of old age.
271. A male gorilla can eat 40 pounds of food a day.
272. A group of whales is called a pod.
273. Female harp seals get in groups to have their babies one mating season is over.
274. When giraffes age, their fur darkens.
275. Heron’s eggs have a greenish-blue pale colour.
276. You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
277. All dolphins have a different whistle.
278. Scientists had to go 45 million years back in history to find the elephant’s oldest ancestor.
279. Tiger Day is the last Sunday in September.
280. There is no visual difference between male and female herons.
281. A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.
282. Hyenas regularly eat the faeces of other animals.
283. Frogs cannot swallow without blinking.
284. A giraffe has the same number of bones in its neck as a man.
285. Moose have very poor vision. Some have even tried to mate with cars.
286. The swan has over 25,000 feathers on its body.
287. African elephants have bigger ears than Indian elephants.
288. There is no record of a human being attacked by a healthy wolf.
289. Hummingbirds are the only birds who can fly backwards.
290. Dolphins can eat up to 30 pounds of fish a day.
291. There’s a spider in Brazil whose bites can cause an erection that lasts for hours!
292. There are no ants in Iceland, Greenland, and Antarctica.
293. Before they’re even born, sand tiger sharks eat their twin brothers and sisters!
294. Jellyfish evaporate in the sun. They’re 98% water.
295. Rooster is simply a male chicken.
296. Pikachu is a mouse type Pokémon.
297. Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
298. The Big Five is a group of animals of Africa: cape buffalo, elephant, leopard, lion and rhino.
299. The slowest fish is the sea horse, which moves along at about 0.01 mph (0.016 km/h).
300. Millions of trees are accidentally planted by squirrels that bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.
301. The lifespan of a bush baby is 14 years.

Gosh, that was a lot. 301 facts! I copied these facts, so i haven't read them all yet. 

Laina

Laina

Awesome! Three flower girls, one dean, one mesdag, one weber! Anybody else--girls--been flower girls?


Laina

Oh, I Forgot to tell you...

I was a flower girl once to!

Maggie

Laina, Hazel was a flower girl for her uncle's wedding!

Laina

Thanks for saying you liked the film, Maggie! I'm trying to make more videos like that but it isn't working because my friend, Kate, wants to do a long video. That won't work, though, because the other one I did was short so the one about Kate should be short, because I'm trying to make it into a "the kids in the neighborhood films." Also, Kate is moving to Minnesota, so I'm trying to make a video before she leaves.

Something else, Hazel--why were you a flower girl? At who's wedding was it? I was a flower girl once, and I'm going to a wedding this Saturday. Oh, another thing--was there a dance floor? I hope there will be one at the wedding I go to.

Laina

Maggie

Yea, I liked it Laina.

Maggie

Evelyn did that last post, you have to press your left and right arrows to see the rest of it.

Laina

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMGGGGGGGGGGGGG, Evelyn! What the heck was the whole alphabet about? Oh, and BTW, did you like the video? Hope you did. When you saw Caden's mouth opening he was saying, "So, i met this girl at the coffee shop..."

You get it, hopefully.

Laina

Evelyn

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Laina

Hey, guys! I made this  video  about my neighborhood. It's on Youtube if you want to watch it! (Or on this post)

Laina



Link:  http://youtu.be/B-P7dVovdnA

Hazel Again

Two days ago, I was a flower girl!  From Hazel

Eli

Yesterday we (me, my mom, Abby) were coming home from Wild Waves. We got stuck at a light for a left turn, but it hadn't turned green for the whole cycle! We waited two more cycles and it still didn't turn green! So, before the fourth cycle started we switched lanes to go forward, and GUESS WHAT HAPPENED THAT CYCLE!

hint:
 

Hazel

Hi! Tomorrow we are going to Whidbey. I'm so excited!!! but I'm sure I will be cleaning all day. I'm going to my dads mom and dads house. It is  because we are house sitting. Also because Abby's birthday party. There chickens and three cats but we see one not so much. Her name is Bella. There is one swing too. I can't wait for Tomorrow. Uncle Alec nope nope nope from Hazel.

Both Finley and Evelyn had and have a birthday coming up and I figured out how to make collages on my phone. I will make one for Maggie when it is her birthday so I can see how much she has changed over the years too. Haven't both girls changed a lot?!! -Auntie Erin

This is the present Maggie made for her dad. Auntie Erin This is a dress I was supposed to wear in my kindergarten school picture but I changed into different clothes instead. (I hated wearing dresses all growing up... I like them now). When Moeki asked me if I changed before or after the pictures I lied and told her after but that wasn't smart of me because soon she got the photos and knew I lied. Lesson learned: NEVER lie to your parents....you will ALWAYS get caught :)

Auntie Meta

We had a great week with Moeki at our house.  She made lots of yummy food, did fun projects, played with the boys and took care of me and Wren while we recovered.  It's always so much fun getting to spend time with Moeki and extra special having her in our home.  Here's some photos from our time with Moeki.

There was a day or two of sunshine.  Our front porch feels really warm in the mornings and is the perfect spot to draw birds and worms. 

Guess what Kai has drawn?

Multi tasker extraordinäre

Its pretty hard to not be totally in awe of our sweet baby girl.

Heres Kai working on a glue food coloring painting project 

 Super yummy strawberry rhubarb apple sauce made by Moeki. 

This last photo is not of any of us...though it looks pretty familiar to all you curly haired cousins and aunties and moeki.  Love you guys
Auntie Meta

Finley's Birthday Party!!!

Today was Finley's birthday party! She invited four familys the kids names are: Zac, Nic and Kenedie (they are triplets and Zac uses a walker.) Anyway, the other kids names are Emmie and Aubrie Hayley Elizbeth and Alexa. Zac, Nic and Kenedie got Finley lots of bubbles. Hayley got her markers, a pillow and a barbie craft kit. Emmie and Aubrie got her a pack of gum and three tank tops Elizbeth and Alexa got her a bug cage and three water squirters. We have had lots of bubble partys in Finley's room and my room Evelyn was the one that broke the pinata.

Maggie

Laina

Hi, fellow cousins! (Does that make sense ?) So, I haven't taken a picture of what I gave my dad, but anyway, Grandma's request, I'll tell you peeps about why I like my dad.

1. He's nice

2. He can do our cavities or whatever we need done on our teeth

3. We often get to sit in first class if he gets bumped up on a plane

I'll make it clear that there's more reasons, but then the list would be too long, so maybe I'll do the other reasons later. Right now I feel like doing something else, like posting pictures. 

Don't Kate and I look a lot alike except she's taller? (Believe it or not, she's in kinder going on to first grade!) 

Hand righting!!!

Largest,Biggest, Hand righting!!! Smallest,tiniest, Hand righting!!! 



~Evelyn



Funny huh? -Maggie

Didn't Catch Anything...

Well, no luck fishing on Saturday.  Pretty slow day fishing for everyone out there, it looked like.

Caden - A hint on the riddle.  The number 144 has a name that it doesn't share with any other number.  BTW, nice baseball photo-shoot, rockstar.

Emmett drew me a wren for Father's Day.  I am supposed to bring it to the office, but I forgot it sitting on the counter at home.  I will bring it in tomorrow.  Maybe we'll get a picture of it up on the blog before I bring it to work.  It is my favorite wren he has drawn.

About Kai's song...Emmett learned "This Land is Our Land" at school on the violin, and a number of kids at school learned alternate lyrics, which made their way to Kai.  I like the original version better.

Toby's dad sure is Handsome.

Laina

Sorry, I ment January 2005, not the 5.

Laina

Laina

I got all my art home on the last day of school, so I gave a drawing of vibrations to my dad. I'll try to get a picture of it so I can show you guys...but I won't post the picture on this post, I'll make a new post and put it on there if I do happen to take a photo of it.

Laina

P. S. Go to January 2005, and you'll see that Lucy's husband is almost orange. Also, scroll down. See if there's something else.

Fathers Day

I was thinking since today is Father's Day you could tell us something you like about your dad.  I was talking to Toby about it this morning and he said he really like that his dad could glow in the dark!
Check January 2005 to see for yourself.

Grandma Moeki

Maggie

Eli-I made a cross stich it has six ties and two bow ties and it says happy fathers day on it.

Eli

Actually, Caden, Uncle Alec asked if you used 8 number 8s. Try this equation, 888+88+8+8+8.
That consists of 8 8s and when you add it all up it equals 1000.

Today's father's day! What did you guys get for your dads? I'll tell you as soon as I give it to him. Also, today is my uncle's wedding!!! I hope it isn't boring, it probably won't be though, because I'm a junior groomsman. I'll tell you once it's over.

Maggie

Good job on those wrens Emmett, I like the one with blue on it.

Kai

Kai 

It is funny when you said it is just Wren when it is actually Wren Adley. This land is private property!   This land is my land, it isn't your land.  I have a shotgun, you don't got one, I'll blow your socks off if you don't get off!!!  this land is private property.  SLAM!!!!!!!!!!!  What does Feme spell?

Emmett

I've been drawing Wren's a lot lately, this is some of them.  Cool huh?

Laina

I have no idea what to write, so I think I should ask myself this question: what are you about to write about?

I think I'll look for some good pictures and see if I can write a story about one of them. :)

One of the boy's almost-father took these three first photos.

 I put these two other photos x-large so you can see them better. (Note that they spelled Caden wrong on this picture. They spelled it "Kaden")

 Caden throwing.

 Caden's getting ready to hit the ball out of the outfield.

 Here's Caden playing shortstop.

 When I was selecting pictures, Caden saw this one and liked it so I put it on my post.

Laina

Caden

Uncle Alec-I don't think it made sense when you said, "why shouldn't you talk about 288 in front of people?" 

I'm going fishing tomorrow

Hazel - Did you go camping?  Yep, yep, yep, or nope, nope, nope!!

Laina - I totally saw that you wrote you were not eating your hair.  However, after reviewing the photographic evidence of what was actually happened, I determined that you were, in fact, eating your hair.  I know that this is correct because, in recent years, I have become an expert picture-looker-ater.

Abby - Pretty exciting that you're a teenager.  I did the math today and discovered that I was done with my teen years prior to you being born.  There was a glimmer of hope when the thought first popped into my mind that that might not be the case, but as I subtracted 3 from 4 in the ones column, the grim reality began to seep through.  

Eli - Winner!  WINNER!!!  And school's out.  Shazam!

Caden - Got one for you: Why shouldn't you talk about 288 in front of people?  

Emmett & Kai got the Audbon app and were able to identify the birds that visit our feeder the most.  They are two Dark-eyed Juncos that look just like this:

And here is a photo of the fish I caught last weekend.  

I'm going out early tomorrow morning again to see if I can catch another one.  

Signed, Uncle Alec