Filters, Heights, and Sushi Trains

Hello again! A lot has happened in the past ten days so that blog title isn't quite right as it doesn't nearly sum up all the stuff that is actually in this post. But oh well...Here goes! 

// Does anyone have the Facebook app on their phone? Maybe you know of this, maybe you don't, but Facebook now has these very fun filters which is SO much fun to use, especially on little people. Although...I did show my grand uncle and grandfather the filters and then we had a bunch of fun trying it out on all of us xD I've been using it a lot on Sweet Pea as she loves seeing herself as little animals. Prepare yourself for a flood of adorableness ;) 

 // Swimming! An essential really for us in Singapore. If we didn't have access to a pool I think we'd be long gone by now :P But thank goodness, our granduncle has not one, but TWO (not including the kiddie pool) pools that we have access to at the apartment! Been spending quite a bit of time there 😊

 // Gems. Like actually, these cookies are called gems. And they're soooo good. It's pretty much a tiny little biscuit with some kind of icing on it. Sweet but delicious!

 // Stationary stores. The past little while we've been in Singapore, I've been doing a lot of drawings (might be able to post them later!) and my aunt thought it would be a great idea to go to some stationary stores. They're AWESOME. We've been to ArtFriend, Typo, Smiggles, Muji...the list goes on. And they've got some pretty fun stuff there. I'm probably gonna grab some stuff on the way home because once I get back home...T-two months until college 😶😭😊

Look. At. All. Those. Pens 😶

// First trip out alone! So...as most of you probably know...we're kiiinda country folk so yep us in Singapore is pretty much the story of the country mouse and the city mouse. Travelling on a bus might seem totally normal to some...but not to us xD T'was quite the adventure and we were VERY happy to find ourselves at the right place and not lost! Celebrated with Starbucks :D

// Brought everyone out swimming and then picked up some ice cream later. Toblerone loved it so much he was quick to tell me his plans for our next outing. "Next time we go swimming...let's get ice cream again ok?"

 // Malaysia. We took a weekend trip to Melaca and visited some quite interesting places! And the pool at the hotel 😍

 At the shopping mall 💜

 The two older boys had an allergic reaction one of the nights in Malaysia, so I slept with Sweet Pea and Toblerone. Oh boyyyyy...the child woke up about every hour and a half and the other kept rolling into my bed. And goodness gracious if you could've seen Sweet Pea's face when she realized I wasn't  Mom xD (yes, she still nurses! :P) 

We also took a river cruise but whilst waiting for the boat we thought we saw an alligator in the river. Our tour guide assured us that there were no alligators. So we went. 

And saw this. Not an alligator true...but still...a relative xD 

Also...driving in Singapore is a nightmare. In Malaysia...AHHHH xD It's about as big as a two lane road in Canada, but here there are cars parked on both sides with cars driving down the middle AND motorcycles and bicyclists weaving in and out. One motorcyclist actually got so close she fell against the bus we were in and had to push herself off to regain her balance. 

// Sushi!! Soooo good and made even more fun because it was delivered to us by these super cool trains! I think I had just as much fun as the younger ones watching the trains speed by with food :D 

Crabstick Salad Sushi...A.M.A.Z.I.N.G.
(my mouth is literally watering just seeing this picture)

 // Back on laundry duty! I normally do the laundry at home and just started doing it again here. Except it's different. For one, they don't have dryers because it just makes more econmical sense to hang the clothes outside to dry. It's so warm anyway.

 But in apartments...*shudders* It makes my skin crawl every time I look down.

 // Deja vu!

2014

2018

 // Dare Devil's 7th birthday! We celebrated with this p.r.e.t.t.y awesome Transformers cake that my grand uncle and grant aunt bought for him.

That about sums it up for now! 2.5 weeks gone...4.5 weeks to go! :D

Giveaways, Messages, and Randomness Galore!

Okay, that's a weird title. Sorry :P

So, to start it all of, Emily McConnell is hosting a give-away at her blog to celebrate 200 posts!!! Ahhhh....super exciting! :D If you haven't already entered, GO DO IT! Click HERE to enter.

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Last week, someone sent me a message labelled "A NOT Confusing Message". I dare you to try and make sense of this: 

THIS IS SOMEONE ELSE. NOT YOUR SISTER. I am saying that because if I say that i'm your sister you will think that it's obviously me because if i wasn't i wouldn't be saying that I wasn't. So since I said that I wasn't, you will now think that I AM your sister when really I am not. But of course you won't believe me because I said that I wasn't and no one says that they aren't something when they don't want you to know what they are. And of course this isn't incredibly confusing. One question to end this: Who am I? Signed, Not Your Sister

As Westley (#theprincessbride) said, "Truly, you have a dizzying intellect." ;P

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A little conversation at dinner a few days ago:
Tiger Lily (age 14): 2 + 2 is 3!
DareDevil (age 5): Uhhhh.....no!!! 2 + 2 is 4!
Tiger Lily: Ohhhh....right
DareDevil: I'm so smart!

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Oh, and just a head's up, I'll be posting the first part of the story I wrote for the Writers Unite Contest this Monday! :D 

Emails and a certain Mr. BX

When someone makes fun of what you put in the caption box above the contact form. *sighs* #thoselittlesisters :P

Okay. So. How shall I say this? Let's start from the beginning.

One day, Dad told me that a man was coming over to our house in a couple of weeks. And he was going to live with us for as long as we stayed at our current house (wait - what?!?)

After I found that out, I may or may not have freaked. Just maybe. 

I then may or may not have asked Dad a TON of questions and found out that:

This man liked to go by the name BX
He came from the States
He was in the wood-working department
He was going to help Dad and the boys with the tree cutting and wood hauling
He wasn't a Christian (that's already kind of a big no for me)
Dad met him on THE INTERNET (I asked if he was my dad at that point, 'cause, well, that's just a thing that Dad NEVER does)
Dad had never actually seen this person or talked to him
This Mr. BX guy was going to live in a tent in our backyard (Tiger Lily and I were like "Uhh...what part of the States is he coming from? Does he know that Canada has -40 degree winters? And it's like impossible to live in a tent in the middle of winter. Or any part of winter, really.)

Kind of scary and weird and really far-fetched.

If any of you know me well, you would know that I'm really, really, really curious. And I will try my utter best to reach the bottom of any important mystery ;)

After we got home, I asked Dad if I could see a picture of this guy, but Dad refused. That got me super curious.

Sooooo..... yeah, I wasn't going to just sit there and wait to see who this mysterioso man was. I mean, if there's a man that could very soon be living in your backyard in a tent, but still having meals with you, and pretty much going to be in your life for who knows how long, you're going to want to find out more about him first, right?

Anyway, I got my computer and started going through all the things that Dad had told me about Mr. BX.

It was his name that I searched first. How many people do you know that go by the name BX? It was a strange name, and I was fairly certain that it would lead me to what I was looking for.

I typed what does bx stand for into Google. It lead me to Bronx, NY.

Then I typed in bx carpentry united states since Dad had said he was in the wood-working department. No such thing existed.

But then you know how while you're typing into Google, there's this box under the search bar and it kind of tries to guess what you're searching for? I decided to type bx in different sentences and questions into the search bar until I found something that looked like it might be relevant.

And bingo! Found it! BX outdoor machinery, right there at the very bottom of the box.

While I was mulling over that, it hit me that Dad had recently been looking at ATV's and wood chippers. After that, it was fairly easy.

A Kubota BX Wood chipper.

*sigh* Dad ...
But I am so very relieved that it's not a man. Because that would be a little weird ;)

I told Dad that I had figured it out. At first, he pretended that he had no idea what I was talking about. In the end, he admitted that he was kind of impressed that I had uncovered his mystery. Then he showed me what he was actually getting. Turns out, it wasn't a wood chipper. BUT it was still a Kubota BX something. I think it's some kind of tractor. And it will help Dad and the boys with the wood :P

Apparently, he had also told the boys and Snow White about it, and they were all like YAY!!! There's a man coming to live with us! *shakes head in exasperation*
They still think that a certain man named Mr. Kubota is coming to live with us in a couple of weeks.

But there. Mystery solved.
I think I might be a detective someday XD

What funny things do your siblings do to you? 

What would you do if you were told that a 

strange man was coming to live with you? (and sure, 

why not, let's add in the the tent in the backyard too ;)

Would you sit and wait for the man to come

or would you try to find out who he was? 

School Time

 Lots of busy little workers this morning! Today's lesson: Phylums Anthophyta, Coniferophyta, Pterophyta, and Bryophyta. (Kudos to you if you remember what kind of plant goes in each phylum ;)

Included a little nature walk today as well, finding the different plants for drawing.

And of course, this little guy wasn't going to be left out! :D 

The three younger ones weren't the only busy ones! Spiderman was constructing some pretty awesome gliders too.

Apologia is really awesome! The books are really descriptive and colourful and the projects in them are so much fun. It really keeps everyone occupied :)

Have you tried Apologia before? Did you like it?

Day #357 - #365

Saturday, February 20: Weird Brother ;) 

 Sunday, February 21: Water and Food Colouring 

 Monday, February 22: Breakfast 

Tuesday, February 23: Lamplighter Novels 

Great treasures in these books! :) 

 Wednesday, February 24: Iced Branch

 Thursday, February 25: Snow Covered Branches 

 Friday, February 26: Winter Wonderland

Sunday, February 28: HOPE

Was frantically looking around for something to take a picture of. My eyes
fell on this Boogie Board and I decided to write the main theme of the sermon today :) 

Also, technically, today is the LAST day of my 365 day photo challenge! But, since it's a leap year, I'm going to make tomorrow the last day ;)

The Very Belated Photo Post

Hello all! Here it is, the very belated photo post.

Enjoy! 

Monday, January 4: Puzzles 

Okay, this picture was actually taken on the 5th, but the picture that I had for the 4th
didn't turn out as well as I would have liked and it was really hard to see the subject :( 

Tuesday, January 5: Happy 10th Birthday, Ironman!  

Wednesday, January 6: First Time Skater! 

Thursday, January 7: Meringue

Friday, January 8: Superwoman! 

Snow White's creativity....

Sunday, January 10: January 10 :) 

Tuesday, January 12: Math. . . 

just a note though, I am no longer doing Precalculus! Yippee! :P Found out
that it was wwaaayyy too advanced for me, so now I'm going through Algebra II
instead ;) 

Thursday, January 14: Colonial Tea Set

Friday, January 15: Chickens + Snow

Saturday, January 16: The Photo of a Photo

Sunday, January 17: My Song To-Do List

Monday, January 18: Snow! 

Tuesday, January 19: Ski Pile

Yup, I wore ALL of that to go skiing :P 

Wednesday, January 20: Skiing! 

And just an extra picture... it was snowing really hard when we left! 

Thursday, January 21: Calendar Picture

Friday, January 22: Brother and Sister

Sunday, January 24: Meeting Yoda

Monday, January 25: Showing Off His Motorcycle ;) 

Tuesday, January 26: Ever After! 

Here's a picture of the DVD that I won from Heidi.
I was totally blown away with the cover!
I thought it was going to look like this:

But what I got is SOOO much prettier than the other one!!
Thank you so much, Heidi! :) 

Wednesday, January 27: Puppy Face

Thursday, January 28: Snow Covered Bush

Friday, January 29: Fluffy Elephant

Saturday, January 30: Photo Shoot with a Friend! :D 

Sunday, January 31: Friends Forever

A beautiful water-colour painting given to me by one of my
dearest friends! :) 

Monday, February 1: Old, Broken Jewelry

The pearls at the bottom are mostly missing, the clasp on the other piece is
totally gone, and did you know that it used to be on a necklace? I was
attempting to make the jewelry prettier than what it actually looks like
in real life. Do you think I succeeded, or does it still look pretty old and broken and
somewhat ugly? 

Tuesday, February 2: A Printed Photograph. . . 

Wednesday, February 3: Watching Studio C

Thursday, February 4: Ice Cream in a Cup

Friday, February 5: Sweet (literally) Sixteen! 

Yours truly turned 16! :D
 I woke up to a family waiting in the dining
room to surprise me with banners, birthday decorations, presents. these pretty
cakes and a whole lot of love! :D
I have an awesome family!!!!! :) 

Saturday, February 6: Birthday Banner

A corner of the beautiful and very colourful banner that my siblings made for me.
Ironman drew a very pretty sunrise, and then I found out that Tiger Lily had snuck in
"You're old!"  at the bottom of a mountain.  Isn't she the loveliest sister? :P 

Sunday, February 7: Mouldy Sandwich

Note to self: Always check to make sure that the ski bag is completely empty.
Or else you might find, well, that. 

Monday, February 8: Three Little Skiers

Look who started skiing!! I managed to persuade Mom to let Toblerone try skiing
in the last two hours of our ski day, and she agreed. At the end of about 1.5 hours, he
was able to ski straight a little ways by himself! He's growing up so fast!! :)