Thru The Eyes Of M.E.

Her Name Is....

2011-09-09T18:25:00.005-04:00

This is our bunny, Caramel. We named her Caramel because she is soft and smooth as the candy caramel. And because of a brownish strip on her back.

Right now I am holding Caramel, the cutest bunny in the world...to us.

This is the time my mother held the bunny.

Here she is! She is so cute!

Everyone has a special noise that makes her calm. But do not to the baby horse sound. It freaks her out!

We are feeding her a carrots from the Amish country.

At this angel you can see her brown strip with the caramel color near her head.

She likes to eat grass. She is very tall when standing up straight. She can just 3 feet high. and she is really long when she stretches. She is a tri-color Rex from Europe. We are planning to have a playpen so she can run around without worry that she will escape.

Earth Dragon Defense

2011-08-21T15:27:00.007-04:00

I got the Earth Dragon by reading The Chronicles of Narnia (So weird right?) and by going to Target. The earth dragon defense comes with: Cole DX, Ice General Wyplash:the Scythe of Quakes, a silver sword, a scythe blade and a FLAMING DAGGER!!!
Wyplash and Cole are just fighting for the scythe and suddenly the awesome rock-spiting earth dragon lunges out of the caves to defend the scythe. Who will you help take the golden weapon? The Evil Ice General or the heroic Earth Ninja?

Here is Cole riding the ferocious dragon and it is hard to do so.
Hre is a rock and it's no ordinary rock (obviously) because it contains a ruby, three emeralds, and a GOLD DIAMOND!!! P.S. it doesn't really come with three emeralds it only comes with one. sorry!
The earth Dragon comes with 227 pieces and I would rate it casual because it has less than 1,000 pieces. If you like mythology or Ninjas this is the set for you!

Star Student

2011-05-30T18:51:00.002-04:00

My teacher filled out a nomination for for me to be nominated for the STAR Student Award. You get it by doing your best while you are at school. If you get chosen you get a free lunch from a drive through restaurant and you get to eat lunch on the stage in the cafeteria. There are eight kids from each grade. Two kids from each classroom. That does not include Kindergarten.

My friend Tyler Moore and I were chosen from my room. I had McDonald's chicken nuggets and apple dippers and 7 UP to drink.

Note from Mom...Mrs. Uhl, Michael's first grade teacher told us about the award at the School Carnival on Friday. Michael forgot to tell us.

Mother's Day Gator

2011-05-10T07:19:00.003-04:00

This is a picture of my Mom and my brother petting a baby alligator. This is the cutest alligator I have ever seen. I have a new contest...who can count how many triangular scales are on it's back? This was at the Zoo . And it was Mother's Day. So she wanted to go to the Zoo. My sister came too but she is not in the picture.

May The 4th Be With You

2011-05-04T20:09:00.003-04:00

Celebrate the National Star Wars Day with this video!

Christmas Tree Cactus

2011-05-03T10:15:00.005-04:00

This is my Christmas Tree Cactus. It is pointy because of those little spike things on each branch.

It is not very tall. It is about as tall as two five inch pens.

I got it a Lowe's.

I am right now putting it in a pot. First, I have to get it out of the plastic container. Then I have to put some special cactus mix soil in there. Then I put the cactus in there. And then more of the cactus soil.

Finally I put gravel all over the soil. Then I put it in a bright spot.

Feed it water once every week. Make sure it gets enough sunlight and don't give it too much water. Do not lose it.

DESIGN by ME

2011-03-10T17:30:00.004-05:00

This is my Lego set that I designed myself on the computer at Lego.com

> This picture shows everything that came in the box.

This is the design that I made. I call it Bi-plane.

Soap Carvings

2011-03-08T13:09:00.004-05:00

I am making a soap carving. With a knife that my Grandpa cleaned it for me. I was my dad's knife when he was a Cub Scout.

I am carving out a fish which it took me about fifteen minutes to do.

This is my fish. He is cute isn't he?

Pinewood Derby 2011

2011-03-08T13:07:00.002-05:00

This is my Pinewood Derby car. It is on the stand. It is really ugly. There is nothing on it except for four numbers. I am going to paint stars on it.

Jango Fett

2011-02-17T14:22:00.003-05:00

This came in the mail today from my Mom for Valentine's Day.

His name in Jango Fett from Episode II in Star Wars. He the father of Boba Fett and his DNA is used to make Clones. FYI...Boba Fett is actually a Clone.

He has a shiny Mandalorian helmet. A grey jet pack. Two custom made pistols. And tough metal armor. My favorite part is his legs because they have so much detail. My Mom says that I better not lose any of it.

Count Bleck

2011-02-17T10:03:00.004-05:00

This is Count Bleck. He is in robes because I don't have a tuxedo for his real thing.

This picture shows you how to build Count Bleck in a certain way. He is made out of two Sith capes a robe body, a skull head, a hood piece, and black legs.

He is really cool. I made him myself. If you could make a clay hat, like a magician's hat, I'd actually put it on Count Bleck and take the picture instead of a hood.

The Gift

2011-02-16T20:44:00.009-05:00

This is the gift that my first cousin gave to me. His name is Tyler. But since he is in the Military, we should call him Sargent Ellis. He gave it to me because I like Star Wars. And he likes Star Wars too. He gave me this set and a Star Wars Clone Wars Book.

This is a Snow Speeders cockpit. As you can see it only has one pilot. It is supposed to have two though. The other pilot is trapped in a cave right now. I'll tell you more about that later. If you can look at this picture upside down you can see a tiny AT-AT on a sticker on the control panel. AT-AT stands for All-Terrain Armored Transport.

This is a picture of the Speeders cockpit open, whole cockpit to be exact.

This is the front of a Snow Speeder. It has detailed cockpit, two nitro blaster cannons, swiveling engines to warm up the steamers which are in the back. And there is one different gray panel. One has a sticker the other is blank. You can answer int he comment box below.

This is the back of the Snow Speeder. It has two thrusters, two steam exhausts, a tow cable and a back blaster. The thrusters which are shown of the way left and the way right, can spin and on the video games of Lego Star Wars II, the thrusters shoot fire. That is exciting actually! But almost everything shoots fire.
This is a picture of the Snow Speeders tow cable in action. As you can see all the string from the close up is gone. That is because it is focused on pulling the book. The book is The Lego Star Wars Dictionary. It has everything in Star Wars, including a time line with Lego sets from 1999 to 2010. And it includes The Clone Wars.
This is the outside view of Wampa Cave. It has a Snow Speeder approaching and is that the back view of the other pilot in there? And there is a Wampa holding a chicken wing. And then there is some realistic rock behind where the Wampa is standing.

Now let's go inside the cave. Hey there is the pilot hanging from the ceiling! Well, he is using the Force to get his lightsaber. As you can see there is a skeleton and some very large ribs. Ahhh! I can't believe that Wampa ate that much!

Yea the other pilot is coming to the rescue! Hey, if he is the front who is keeping it steady!? I'd rate this set casual. Anyone who wants a Snow Speeder...it comes with this set. Other pilot suit not included. It took me about like one hour to put it together I really like the bones there. It has about 200 pieces. Thank you Tyler and Sabrina.

Smiley Face Breakfast

2011-02-05T16:47:00.002-05:00

I had this for breakfast today. It is made out of two pancakes, two sausages, and a strip of bacon. I ate the sausages first. Then the pancakes. Last I had the strip of bacon.

For My Cousin Tyler

2011-01-30T13:25:00.002-05:00

This is a Mandalorian Battle Pack. It comes with four Mandalorians. Each one has a jet pack. One has a machine gun. (shown in the back) One does not have a weapon at all, just a vehicle (to the right of the one with the big gun). And the leader has two aiming pistols. And then the last one has a long shotgun with a stand.

I wanted to do this because my cousin Tyler likes Star Wars. He is at the war in Kuwait. He sent me a Star Wars, Clone Wars book. He likes the origional saga best. I like the origional saga best too.

The GINGER Bread of Ohio

2011-01-19T17:39:00.004-05:00

I made Ohio by chewing ginger bread with my teeth. It took me about 5 minutes to do this.

My Friend

2010-12-31T23:30:00.003-05:00

This is me and my friend Wyatt. We are holding our favorite sets mini figures and vehicles.

Slave 1

2010-12-31T21:53:00.002-05:00

This is my all time favorite Lego set. And this is Boba Fett's Slave 1. There is a cannon hatch which is shown in the picture. And there is a switch in the back that fires a missile. It also has a rotating cockpit and wings.

There are fold out rockets on Slave 1 and as General Grevious, his star fighter is bristling with weapons. It also has four twin blaster cannons.

This is the back of Slave 1. As you can see it has lots of thrusters. And there is a thing at the top which I don't know what that thing is but it is used to make it convert from landing form to flight form. And you can see the switch in the back. The switch looks like a long plus shaped stick.

This is the landing form of Slave 1. As you can see it has wing protection shown in dark green. The colors of Slave 1 are gray, tan, light green, dark green, crimson, dark gray, and black.

I'd rate this AWESOME!!! Even though it has about 500 pieces it is a really fun Mandalorian Star Fighter. P.S. I got this ship for Christmas.

General Grevious's Star Fighter

2010-12-29T17:29:00.005-05:00

General Grevious's Star Fighter is bristling with weapons. Here is the place where General Grevious, as in Star Wars: The Clone Wars gets his new legs. The set comes with a Medical droid, General Grevious, and a Jedi.

There is a sliding cockpit as shown in this picture. You have to take so General Greious's second arms so he can fit in the cockpit.

The set also comes with fold out flick firing rockets. Just push hard with your finger and it flies out!

The back of his Star Fighter has rotating landing gear and blue thrusters.

I'd rate this set casual because it only has about 200 pieces and it is fun to play with.

Imperial Shuttle

2010-12-29T17:27:00.013-05:00

This is Emperor Palpatine's shuttle. It has five blasters. (four in the front and one in the back) It has an opening cockpit and foldable wings.

The person in the cockpit is a different Clone pilot. And the thing that looks like goggles on the helmet are actully on the head.

Anikin Skywalker is in the Medical Room of this shuttle. If you take apart the two hooks in the front and then slide it you will reveal the Medical Room where Anikin is transformed into Darth Vadeo. I call this room the Sith Transformation Medical Room.

This is Anikin Skywalker with Darth Vader helmet on. If Emperor Palpatine hadn't resuced Anikin Darth Vader would have never come to be. With the help of a 1-B medical droid the Emperor had transformed Anikin into
Darth Vader.

I rate this hard core because 1. it has about 500 pieces and 2. it took me awhile for me to figure out where the Medical Room attached.

ARC-170

2010-12-29T17:27:00.008-05:00

This is my ARC-170 Star Fighter. It comes with Captain Jog, Kit Fitso, a Clone pilot, and some kind of Droid. The only thing I know about the Droid is that it is an Astromech Droid. It is a Droid with three legs, a round head, colorful body, a tazer, and has a glass circle for an eye. It only has 5 blasters. (four are on the wings and one twin blaster in the back) It has a curved nose, two Republic Armada Emblems on the top secondary wings. There are two long blasters on the wings. And then two big turbines in between the wings and the body. It has two green firing missiles. There is a switch in the back that fires the missiles. But the wings don't unfold. (that's too bad) I'd rate this hard core! It has about 500 pieces. It is really hard to find the pieces though. It is my favorite Star Fighter so far.

Tank Droid

2010-12-29T17:26:00.004-05:00

This is the Corporate Alliance Tank Droid. A Droid is a type of robot that either is doctor or solider. The set comes with two Battle Droids, two Jet Troopers, a catapult and a Tank Droid. (of course!) The Jet Troopers come with real faces. The first thing you have to build in the set is the Tank Droid and then the mini figures. And last but not least, the catapult. You have to build each part of the Tank Droid separately. Then you have to connect it. The catapult makes the Jet Troopers look like they are flying! I'd rate this casual because it has about 125 pieces.

T.I.E. Advanced

2010-12-29T17:24:00.008-05:00

This is Darth Vader's T.I.E. Advanced. (which stands for The Imperial Empire) The set features flick firing missiles and an opening cockpit and detachable wings. And it has two blasters on the front of the cockpit. (which are shown in red)

This is the inside of the cockpit. Darth Vader sits in front of the control panel. It features a space in the back of it for his cape. It only took me a night and morning to put it together. I did most of it at night. And the rest of it at day. It took me forever to find his cape though!

I'd rate this somewhere between casual and hardcore because 1. it took me forever to find his cape and 2. it was fun building it.

Plo Koon

2010-12-29T17:24:00.007-05:00

This is Plo Koon's Jedi Star Fighter. He is in the cockpit which has an ejecting seat. As a co-pilot he has a R7 Unit. The set features movable landing gear, ejecting seat, (which I already told you about), and you can take the R7 Unit out. It has about 200 pieces and is seen in The Clone Wars. I'd rate this set casual because it has under 500 pieces.

Clone Walker

2010-12-29T17:23:00.004-05:00

This is my Clone Walker Battle Pack. The set comes with a Clone Commander, two Clone Troopers and (one is shown in the Walker), and a Clone Gunner. (Also shown in the Walker). The set features a Blaster Cannon in the front, two Flick Firing Missiles, and then the Republic Emblem on both sides. It didn't take too long to build it. I'd rate this set casual because it is only one vehicle. And it has about 165 pieces.

First Star Wars Puzzle

2010-12-29T17:21:00.005-05:00

I got this puzzle for my birthday from Mom and Dad. There is another puzzle in the box that we haven't done yet. This puzzle has 300 pieces. We are going to hang it on my wall as a poster. I would rate this as hard core because it has 3O0 pieces and they are all faces of Star Wars characters. My favorite was the Darth.

THE SWEET TOOTH PIRATE SHIP

2010-11-21T09:31:00.002-05:00

I got this ship from JoAnn's. But it didn't come in one piece.
I had to build it.The decorations I did myself. How do you like it?

FYI from Mom...He typed the entire post all by himself!

One Happy Family

2010-10-11T07:11:00.003-04:00

Dogs Playing The DS

2010-03-14T20:33:00.003-04:00

This is a pictures of my stuffed puppies playing my DS. They are playing Mario and Luigi's Bowser's Inside Story. Which they are playing a mini games called Juuump Mode. They got 15 yards on it. And they keep on getting time items so they can get to 15 yards like I said.

My dogs names are...the big bull dog's name is Lu.
The beagleish looking one is names Fred.
The little one with the heart on her ear is LuLu.
And the blue one is named Frederick.

They are still playing it right now!

Dino-Mite

2010-02-25T18:26:00.008-05:00

I am digging for a dinosaur fossil in a bucket of sand.

After I found a pretend rock I chiseled it with a nail and brushed it with a dry paint brush.

This is a picture of information of a Triceratops. There was lots of information on the paper about what kind of body it had and that's about it.

The next classroom we went to was Food coloring Fireworks. The make the fire works you get a whole jar of water and then put half a jug of oil in it. And put three drops of red, green and blue food coloring in it. It explodes when you touch it. It make a cloud of whatever color you touch. The teachers were showing us density.

After we say the food coloring fireworks, we made snow globes with dinosaurs in them.
And now I am standing next to a red Tyrannosaurus Rex. The End. I had so much fun. My favorite part was standing next to the Tyrannosaurus.

Christmas Special

2009-12-22T21:02:00.005-05:00

This is a gingerbread man and a gingerbread snowman. They are made out of candy and icing which you see. We got the kit at WalMart and tonight be finally got to finish it. The first thing we had to do was open the box and put icing on the rough side of the gingerbread. Second thing that we had to do was put together the walls. We used the icing to put together the walls and front and back. Third we had to put on the icing on the top part of the gingerbread roof (front and back).

We had to put on the tree last because we had to put icing on every single part that needed to be traced with icing. The fourth thing that we had to do was put on the roof and we had to hold it for a minute. We had to put on icing through the middle so it would stay. We had to do it for one more minute. Then we had to wait 15 minutes to put on the candy! Me and Mom had fun putting on the candy! Okay, The End.

That was really fun!

Carmel Frenzy

2009-12-13T18:55:00.010-05:00

We got some apples last week at the store and Emmy had caramels that she had from Halloween. So it was raining outside and I was bored...really bored. So we decided to make caramel apples. This is how you make a caramel apple.

This is a bag of caramel. They are chewy and sweet.

This is a medium size bag of yellow apples.

This is a tray with a layer of wax paper. We used wax paper so it doesn't get all gooey on the tray.

We are unwrapping the caramel. We put the caramel in the pan.

We add milk to the caramel so it will be all smooth. Cook the caramels on medium so they won't burn.

I put the sticks through the top of nine apples.

After the caramel is melted we dip the apples in the caramel. We have to hold them up so they can drip.

We put the caramel apples on the tray and then we put them in the fridge because they need to cool off. Eat them when they are hard.

Bon Appetite.

The End

Making Apple Cider

2009-10-10T09:43:00.003-04:00

My Mom took the pictures of me making apple cider at the Apple Butter 'Festible'. I couldn't do both things at once.

These were the apples we used for apple cider...it was delicious.

Now I am throwing in apples for the next batch. We had to put them in the bag. Then dunk them in Clorox water to get the germs off and to clean them. Then we dunked them in fresh water to clean all the other water off.

This is one of the helpers that pushed down the apples. He used a wooden pusher tool so his fingers didn't get cut off! That is very dangerous!

Here I am pushing the crank so I can make bits of the apples so we can squish them down to make apple cider.

Here is someone pushing the chunks of apples so we can crush the apples to make apple cider.

This is a picture of me trying to get some apple cider to drink.

This is the first cup of apple cider that I made and I drank a lot of it. Ms Carla gave me a whole jar of apple cider to take home.

I am resting in the hammock after a hard days work.

Stern Wheelers

2009-10-04T10:33:00.001-04:00

On Sunday we went to the river to see two of the ships that Columbus had. I didn't want to take any pictures so I took pictures of the little stern wheelers inside.A paddle steamer is a boat with a steam engine. And it has a big wheel on it.

These are stern wheelers because the wheel is on the stern. That means the back.

I had my Mom take a picture of me looking at the Belle of Cincinnati. The other one is The Island Queen from Coney Island. I think they are really cool. I want to ride on one someday.

The Observatory

2009-09-26T21:59:00.003-04:00

Last night after it go dark we went to see the Moon and Jupiter. We couldn't see anything because there were too many clouds. But we did get to check out the two telescopes. My Dad likes to read all the signs and things. I liked looking at all the Moon globes. The buildings were really old. My mom likes old stuff. I got to help the man move the ceiling around. We got to look up in the inside of the white telescope. I even got to close the door on the dome. You'll have to check out my Mom's blog because she took lots of pictures of me doing those things.This is the old brown small telescope.
The white telescope was the biggest one.

On the way home I saw the moon and some stars. Maybe next time we go next month we will be able to see the moon when we are there.

Art Museum

2009-09-26T21:54:00.008-04:00

On Saturday we went out to lunch and then we went to the Farmer's Market. I got the last M&M cookie and Mom got vegetables. Mom found some goats. The bread man was out of bread. And then we went to the Art Museum. It is in Eden Park. I almost got bored because there was nothing to do except walk around and get tired. It was in Eden Park. It was built in 1886. It is 129 years old. It was one little building and they kept adding on more parts to make it bigger so they could put more portraits, statues, painting, sculptures, and vases. In 2003 a man and his wife gave a lot of money so it would always be free.
This tree was outside the Art Museum. I just wanted to take a picture of it.

This is a buckeye. It is the state tree of Ohio. We saved the nut to plant in the backyard.

I think this looks like a man. It is a sculpture. It had a swing that was hooked to the ground and one part of the sculpture.

When we walked in the entrance Mom said to look up and this is what I saw. It looked like blue crystals. It was made out of glass. It was over a statue.

This is the statue. It was really old. It was made out of marble...that's a kind of rock.

The museum took an x-ray of the mummy inside. You could see his bones. It said he was 35 years old.

This mummy case looked kinda cool so I took a picture of it.

I like shiny things so took a picture of this.

I named this the 'killer ax'. This was in the African Exhibit.

I made this video in the way home. My feet were really, really tired.

Findlay Market

2009-09-07T14:26:00.006-04:00

Findlay Market was started in 1852 from land donated by James Findlay. It is open Wednesday thru Saturday. It is Ohio's oldest continuously-operated public market. That means that it never closes or it has never gone out of business. But they do take breaks.
This is near the parking lot that we park in.

I just liked this picture. It is by the front entrance above the meat counter.

I took these pictures from my Peepaw. He likes to fish in Canada.

The didn't smell because they were behind the window. And it was jsut he heads.

Another butcher shop outside of the Main market building. It was smaller.

I took this one for Peepaw too. I took three lobster pictures but Mom said I could only use one.

I love shrimp. But not the kind at Texas Roadhouse. Just the sushi kind.

Mom likes to listen to the music and eat the samples. She likes the flowers too. We always come home with lots of vegetables. This time we brought home some bee sticks. They were good. My favorite was the mint honey.

This is Peepaw. He got lost on the way back from the bathroom. He whistled and my Mom went to find him. Then we had lunch. Really good hamburgers with cheese and ketchup. I had some chips too. And a lemonade.

I like this picture because I only wanted to take it in the dark. (Mom...I have NO clue).

If you want to know more about Findlay Market here is a place to go.
Next time we go I am going to take a video.

Saturday in The Big City

2009-08-29T23:33:00.009-04:00

This is where the Cincinnati Reds play baseball. It is called Great American Ballpark. It is on the banks of the Ohio River. The Reds were the first baseball team.

This is the P and G building. It is sometimes called just P and G. Mr. Proctor came from England. And Mr. Gamble came from Ireland. Mr. Proctor was a candle maker. Mr. Gamble was a soap maker. They married sisters. They decided to make a company. They make paper towels, dish washing soap, toothpaste, dog food, and chips.

This is Jim Tarbell. He was a fisherman and a harmonica player. The mural is 40 feet tall. We saw it on Central and Vine. The mayor says we should call him "Mr. Cincinnati" for life. He did a lot of good things for Cincinnati.

I took this picture because I liked it. The statue looks cool. Mom's says it is a jewelery company. All their stuff comes in a pretty blue box with a white bow. They are very expensive.

This is the Ohio River. We took PeePaw to Eden Park. It is 189.29 acres. We had a family picture taken there a year and three months ago.