a real mouthful

did you know that the longest word in the english dictionary is "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis?"

Overheard

Sophie: The neighbors still haven't taken their decorations down yet. That means they'll never take them down.
Me: No it doesn't.
Sophie (nodding her head): Because I am holding a heavy bag of seashells.

Overheard

Ethan (after dad told us a math riddle): Sorry. I don't do math on weekends.

my christmas list

Mindflex set
Yellow birdwing butterfly catterpillars

Calendar with bugs pictures
Hexbugs
Real bugs for my bug collection
I spy books and video game
Scorpion pet
Tin with pokemon cards
Mindstorms set
A bunch of DS games
Spider (Eurypemia spinicrus)

Laptop
Iphone or another cellphone (preferably iphone)
Scrabble dictionary
Taxidermy of insects

my VEX robotics club tournament was a week ago

believe it or not, we actually got to the semifinals. the weirdest part is, we were the only middle school team out of forty teams. the other teams were all high school kids.our robot is the one in the back. it was designed to have arms that slide under the rings that we have to put on the hoop, pick the rings up, and slide them onto the pipe. the red ones were worth five times as much as the others, so we always tried to get them.