...my birthday

WOWEEEE! its my birthday! now 10 is gone and i got a whole year of being11. how cool is that!
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for my special day first my brother alex took off work and gonna taking me for lunch where ever i could want to go and then hes gonna take me to any movie i could want to see. i dont know which one could want to see so were gonna look on the computer and pick one. mostly me and alex dont do so much together except sometimes i go at his work with him so hes making a special time just for me and him and that makes me sooooo happy.
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later after every one gets home and we get done eating dinner i get to open all my cards and presents. YIKES! all those cards are from my blogger friends! i looked at all those post marks and name labels and i got cards from all over the whole united states and i got some from canada and england and one from france. i cant wait to get them open. i love cards! after i get those cards open and read every word on every one im gonna put them up over the fire place so i could see them every day. WOW! its sooooo cool that my friends sent me so much cards. it gets me feeling good right down inside my heart.
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after that i get to open my presents. YIPPEE! could you believe besides those neat cards i got lots of presents from my blogger friends. WOW! how cool is that! for sure i cant wait to get them open. i got lots of presents from my brothers and my sister too. so I got lots to open up. presents are sooooo much fun!
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AHHH! after cards and presents comes the cake and ice cream! i’m hoping for a hotwheels cake thats chocolate with chocolate frosting. i could like a BIG hunk of that cake with a BIG scoop of vanilla ice cream on it. YIKES! i got myself hungry just thinking on it. ha ha. if you could be here for sure id share out that cake with every one of you. but for sure im gonna tell you how good it tastes. :)
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this is gonna be the most special birthday of my whole life ever and its just way more special cause of all my blogger friends. after it gets all done im gonna do a post and tell you everything about my special birthday and for sure im gonna be saying BIG THANKS for all those cards and presents.
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WOW! im just the most lucky kid in the whole wide world!
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…big hugs from lenny

...go fly a kite!

i love kites!!!

they look so cool with all those bright colors floating and flapping around way up in the sky. can you believe kites been around for 3000 years! wow! thats a really long time. way back then they got used for fishing, wars, magic and lots of other things.

now their mostly for fun. you can get all kinds of kites. theres stunt kites, fighting kites, racing kites and lots of other ones in all kinds of sizes, bright colors and every shape you could ever think of. all over the world theres kite days, contests and festivals. zillions of people are flying kites and having lots of fun doing it.

the most fun time for me was when me and my brother andrew made our own kite. we got some old pieces of wood, a used up old white shower curtain that had neat swirlies on it and some old rags we tied up together for a tail. everyone laughed and said that big ol ugly lookin kite wasnt ever gonna fly. but andrews a good builder and he dosnt give up so easy on something he believes he could do and i just knew he could get that kite flying. so, we just kept changing it up a little after every time it crashed and that was a bunch of times. ugh! one day on another try i held it up high over my head and andrew ran as fast as he could pulling that long string over his head and while everyone was laughing at us that kite just jumped right out of my hands and went up up up into the sky. WOWEEEE! it was soooo exciting! it was bigger than any kite i ever saw and its long raggy tail was wagging real proud in the wind like it was saying ha ha told you so to all the ones who had been laughing. me and andrew held tight on that string together. we let out a bunch more string and watched that kite go higher and higher in the sky til it got so high it didnt look like an old shower curtain anymore and looked like a big beautiful white bird gliding way high up on the wind. it was the best and most beautiful kite in the whole wide world. since that time i got lots of store bought kites in lots of pretty colors and shapes and had lots of fun flying them. but i just gotta tell you the best one ever was that ugly white shower curtain kite me and andrew built and flew together.

have some fun! ...go fly a kite!

…hugs from lenny

...alarming!

i HATE alarm clocks! i tried the dingle-a-ling one, the buzzzzzing one the la-dee-dah music one and even a talking clock. yikes! who wants to wake up to a stranger in your room with a yucky computer voice telling you to get up. no way!

it doesn’t matter which one i have ‘cause all of them have the same evil purpose and that’s to jar me outta dreamland and wake me up when i don’t wanna wake up. it’s my own fault. after all, who set that stupid alarm anyway? i did! what was i thinking? why am i letting a loud mouthed alarm clock get me up when i don’t want to get up? that’s self abuse for sure! and, isn’t one booming blast of abuse enough? NO! i can take more! just watch me push that handy dandy little snooze button and torture myself every ten minutes until I finally give up. geeeez! how dumb is that?!

think about this. the word “alarm” itself sounds scary. i don’t think waking up when the alarm goes off is supposed to be an emergency. where’s the fire? where’s the flood? and, why do we say the alarm “goes off” anyway?? doesn’t that sound sorta mean and angry? “alarm goes off!” yikes! i don’t want to be jarred awake by something that “goes off.” nope! i want to wake up slow and easy, take some time to open my eyes and rub the sleep out of them, yawn, stretch and crawl out of my bed at a snail's pace.

my mom used to call the alarm clock “the devils own invention.” i didn’t know what she meant til i had to start using one myself. eeeeek! the devil is alive and living in my alarm clock! i hate to admit it but i gotta tell you ive killed off a lot of those evil clocks. i smashed one against the wall, smothered a couple under my pillow, pitched one right out the window and drowned one in the sink. every time i get rid of one some nice person gets me another one. gosh thanks! how nice! oh i just love it! you’re sooo thoughtful. aarrgh!

the best alarm i ever had was my mom! she’d call out in a soft, cheery voice “time to get up. come on sleepy head get up.” what could be sweeter than waking up to mom’s voice. and, she’d come back and do it all over again until i got up. what's even better is when i finally rolled out of my warm, cozy bed and stumbled out my bedroom door, still half asleep, she was there and gave me a warm good morning hug. i’d close my eyes and wish i could go back to sleep right there in her arms.

i guess having my very own alarm clock means i’m growing up and being a lot more responsible for myself. i hate to say it, but, like everyone else, i need that devil to jar me out of dreamland. ugh! i HATE alarm clocks!

(thanks to my brother for editing this so it reads lots better.)

…hugs and smiles from lenny

cruisin'!

wowee! i just been on my very first cruise ever and it was soooooo much fun. i went on a big ship named the monarch of the seas for three whole days. when you see that ship real close up you just get no words except wow! my room was neat and it had a window where i could look out and see the water and land when we got to it. i didnt hardly ever stay in my room cause there was sooooo much fun stuff to do. mostly i swam and ate. i ate til my belly was busting and made my tee shirts stretch out. ha ha. it had so many places you could eat all the time and one night i ate pizza at midnight. i gotta admit i did it only one time cause i got sick in the night and threw up cause of eatin so much so late. ugh! the ship had a cool arcade room and a place to play basketball and ping pong and lots of other cool games. there was lots of music and places you could dance and movies and real live shows. i took a kite with me but got so busy i forgot to fly it. all the crew was really nice and helped me if i got lost (i did that a lot …ha ha) or needed something. the ship went to the bahama islands and i got to get off at nassau. it was really pretty and had lots of buildings painted in pastel colours. it was fun walking around and seeing all the neat stuff mostly at the straw market. it was sooooo hot there that i didnt stick around too long and got back on the ship and jumped in the pool. ahhhh! the last day the ship went to a real small island called cocoa cay and i swam way far out in the sea and snorkeled and saw lots of pretty fish and even a big ol sting ray. hooray for no sharks! they had a big barbeque and i ate a bunch more food. yikes! the ship got back at port in florida on monday morning. now im back home and wishin i was still on that ship and hoping i get to go on a longer cruise some day. if you didnt ever go on a cruise you just gotta do it!
… hugs from lenny