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I was born in 2004.

I have 0 brains.

I am 9 years old.

I have 2 hands.

I have 8 fingers.

I have  2 thumbs.

I have 2 big feet.

I have 1 nose.

I have 3 brothers.

I have 4 sisters.

I have 1 Mum.

I have 1 Dad.

I have 23 teeth because I lost one.


(Just Joking about having 0 brains. Of course I have heaps of brains)    

Movies

 Some of my favourite movies are...

Tangled.

Brave.

Muppet Treasure Island.

Tinkerbell and the Secret of the Wings.

The Incredibles.

Megamind

How to Train Your Dragon

I love having a movie night and watching one of my favourite movies. It is even more fun when Dad makes popcorn and everybody watches with me.

  
 

Legs

I have got legs. I have got long legs. I have got strong legs.

I can run for six kilometres on my legs. I have won races on my legs. I go for a run up big rocky hills on my legs, early in the morning, and in the afternoon I go outside and play on my legs.

At the end of my legs are my feet. They are rather large feet, just like a hobbit's. I have got a pair of hobbit socks. Duncan made them for me for Christmas.

Babies have short legs.

Giraffes have long legs.

Spiders have lots of hairy legs.

Emus have tall legs.

This bird has yellow legs.

Kittens have fluffy legs.

Tables and chairs have legs too.

Legs are very useful. I love my legs. What would I do without them?

         

Kangaroos

There is a lot of kangaroos in Australia.

When Charlotte was little, Mum and Dad lived on a 100 acre block and when they went walking in the bushy bits they could see lots of kangaroos.

At Penrose Park (monastery) we see heaps of kangaroos just dotted around the place.

We have seen kangaroos on our street as well. When we were saying morning prayers one day, Mum said, "Look there is a kangaroo."

I rushed to the window and there was a kangaroo happily hopping down the road.

We also saw a kangaroo when we were going running.We were walking up to the bush track in the early morning.

"Look, it's a kangaroo," said Imogen.

It sat there in the bush looking at us, then it hurried away as if it was late for something.

Dad hit a kangaroo late one night. I think the kangaroo did more damage to the car then the car did to it. Imogen was afraid that the kangaroo would go through the windscreen and it would sit in her lap. Dad managed to get the car home. Luckily for me I was not in the car but I did get to see the car afterwards. It had kangaroo fur on it. Both the kangaroo and the car ended up dying.

I like kangaroos and their big legs.         
   

Jenny

Jenny is our cat. She is such a story-like cat. All she does is sleep, eat, sleep, eat and if she feels like it, she will curl up on your lap.

Jenny likes to lie down and stretch her chin out on the floor. It looks really uncomfortable but she seems to like it. She sits on anything from the arm of the chair to a shoe box to a bookmark on the floor. She thinks that she can catch a bug through a closed glass sliding door. It doesn't work. She is a bit dim.

Jenny is cross eyed and sometimes tries to thump my legs with her head but I think she gets the wrong image of me. I thinks she sees two of me.

 We were watching "The Life of Birds" and Jenny got up from the arm of the chair and hopped onto the organ stool, which was closer to the TV, to investigate.

She kills toy mice for us and in the middle of the night she will start meowing, telling us to come look at the mouse she has killed.

Sammy (one of our other cats) and Jenny fight each other for a small rocking chair, sometimes both hopping on it and we can't tell one cat's paws from the other cat's.

I love Jenny even if she is not very clever.

Imaginary story

Lark flew into the sky. Something was strange. Then Lark saw it. There was a load of dragons whizzing past her head.

"Get down," shouted Lark's mother. Lark flew down through all the dragons. 

"Mum, what is going on?" Lark asked.

 "It is okay. It's only some people riding on dragons."

 Only some dragons, thought Lark. She fluttered her wings. She was a very inquisitive fairy. 

Lark

"They are probably some fairies, elves and dwarves," said Mister Bird who was Lark's father.

 "But what are they doing sitting on dragons, Mother?" said Parrot, who was Lark's brother.

 "They are probably going to storm the evil fairy's palace," said Mister Bird.

 "But isn't her palace under the water?" asked Parrot.

"Yes it is but most of the palace is dry," said Mrs Bird. 

"How does it keep dry?" asked Parrot.

 "It is only half under the water," said Mrs Bird.

"How does it manage that?" asked Parrot.

 "It is on a  island," said Mister Bird.

 Lark went to bed in her house on a cloud. Her mind was racing. Maybe she could help. As soon as her mother and father had gone to bed, she got up and started to get her clothes on. She padded to the door and jumped out of it. She knew round about where the evil fairy's palace was. She flew for two hours straight and her wings were tired. A gust of wind swept her down. She started falling at a dramatic speed. Someone grabbed her hand. It was an elf.

"Sorry about making you fall," said the elf. "The wind was made by my dragon."

"It's okay," she said, climbing onto his purple dragon.

"My name is Grove. What is yours?" asked the elf.

"My name is Lark and I am trying to find the elves, the fairies and the dwarves. Do you know where to find them?" asked Lark.

"I'm one of them," said Grove.

"Can I come with you?" asked Lark.

"Certainly you can come with me," said Grove 

Grove

There was heaps of dragons all over the big sea cliff.

"Right men, you can all go in teams. Every team will try to get into the palace and find Melon," said an old dwarf.

"Who is Melon?" asked Lark

"She is the evil fairy," said Grove.

In Grove's and Lark's team there were two dwarves called Rain and Ruby, a fairy called Starry and an elf called Bloom. Ruby and Bloom were girls like Lark.  Starry and Lark flew alongside the four dragons.

"I can't see a window anywhere, and look in the water! There are guards," said Ruby 

"They are mermaids," said Bloom.

"There are some birds there too," said Starry. 

"I can see some loose spiky tiles," said Lark

Lark and Starry flew down to investigate. Starry threw one of the spiky tiles off the roof. 

"Come on down!" shouted Lark 

Rain, Ruby, Grove and Bloom tied their dragons to some pieces of rock that jutted out from the cliff. Rain jumped through the roof.

"I will see if it is safe down here," said Rain

Rain saw that there was a hall with a winding staircase. There was a huge grandfather clock that said the wrong time. Comfy armchairs with cushions lined the walls. On some gold stools there were snakes. Rain felt like screaming. There was snakes everywhere. They must be the inside guards, thought Rain.

"Can we come down?" said Bloom.

"Yes," said Rain.

"Those are a lot of snakes," said Ruby, swishing a mop of brown hair from her face.

Suddenly the room went cold and the door at the other side of the hall opened.        

To be continued    

              

           

Horses

We've got heaps of plastic horses. They are very real looking. Sophie and I love playing with them. We play wild horses and racing horses. We only have one horse that looks like a race horse. Sophie and I call her Mirror.

We can't remember half of the names of the horses, or even if they all had names. I have named some of my horses. Last year I got two foals and I called them Pixie and Archibald.

 I also have a cart horse. He doesn't have a name. He is grey.

I even have two tiny horses and a slightly older one which I called Katy. She is brown and white.

One of my  tiny horses doesn't have a name. The other horse is called Phoebe. She is a bit like Katy. 

We sometimes put the horses into families. We have some plastic tigers and a cheetah and they make a game even better

   

This is me on my 8th birthday. Duncan gave me a unicorn which is almost a horse.