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Tabbikat's Thursday 13 #15

13 Things You Probably Never Wanted to Know About Emperor Penguins

1. Emperor Penguins live in Antartica where it is so cold there are no trees, flowers, or grass.


2. Emperor Penguins are the largest of all the penguin varieties, they grow to be about four feet tall and weigh 48–82 lb.


3. Emperor Penguins are flightless birds.


4. Emperor penquins can swim very quickly, and dive as deep as 1,755 feet below the water's surface.


5. Emperor penguins can stay under water for up to 20 minutes at a time.


6. On land Emperor penguins waddle on their strong webbed feet, hop, and use their beaks and claws to climb up hills. They slide down the hills on their tummies, the same way kids slide down hills on sleds.


7. Fish form the bulk of the Emperor Penguin's diet, which can include crustaceans, such as krill, and cephalopods, such as squid.


8. Like all birds Emperor penguins lay eggs, but they do not build nests because there are no twigs and grass for them to build nests with. Instead after the mother penguin lays the egg she passes it to the father who keeps it safe and warm by resting it on his feet and covering it with a flap of skin called a "brood pouch".


9. Emperor penguin chicks weigh less than a pound and are covered with grey and black fuzz.


10. Baby Emperor penguins eat partially digested food that their mother regurgitates (throws up) for them.


11. Emperor Penguin chicks will stay with their parents until they are about 6 months old and have their adult feathers.


12. Young Emperor Penguins stay in the water or on the water's edge for 4 years after they leave thier parents, then they travel inland and lay eggs of their own.


13. Emperor Penguins are serially monogamous. They have only one mate each year, and stay faithful to that mate for that year. However, fidelity between years is only about 15%.

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Tabbikat's Thursday 13 #14

13 Places I'd Love To Go!

I decided just to list these alphabetically since it was too hard to put them in a most to least type list...

1. 
   Caribbean
   anywhere would be fine with me


2. 
   China


3. 
   France


4. 
   Grand Canyon, Arizona
   I went when I was 5 but I don't really remember it and I don't have pictures


5. 
   Hawaii


6. 
   India


7. 
   Ireland


8. 
   Miami


9. 
   Mount Rushmore National Monument, Keystone, South Dakota


10. 
    San Francisco


11. 
    Disney World


12. 
    Washington D.C.


13. 
    Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

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Tabbikat's Thursday 13 #13

Randomness Reigns
Below are 13 questions from a myspace quiz and my 3 word answers to them...
1. Where is your cell phone? on the table

2. Your hair? brown straight boring

3. Your favorite thing to do? laugh with daughter

4. When is the last time you laughed? earlier this morning

5. Your favorite color(s)? blue pink purple

6. The room you’re in? bedroom/office/grey

7. Who did you hang out with last night? mother daughter pets

8. Muffins? cranberry orange nut

9. One of your wish list items? a good job

10. What are you wearing? shorts shirt wristband

11. Your pet? dog three cats

12. Your summer? long hot fun

13. Your relationship status? very very single

Go ahead and try it, it's fun!



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Happy 6th Birthday Miss Andreia!

So, 6 years ago at 7:14am I gave birth to a sweet, innocent baby girl! I could never have imagined then the wonderful, wild, smart muffin she turned out to be.




She loves presents, well who doesn't, and couldn't wait to open one. She had a hard time waiting until after her party to open the rest, but somehow she managed.




This year she was very hands on for the cakes and decorations. She frosted and decorated both cakes by herself and did much of the decorating, dictating what she couldn't actually do herself.






Our one neighbor has 7 children, and we absolutely love them all. For Andreia's 1st birthday they were the only children we invited, and today Olga and I reminisced about the fact that her 5th & 6th are now about the same ages as her 1st & 2nd were at that first party.





Sweet little Anthony is #7 and was just as chipper at the party as everyone else. He had a small love affair going with a ballon Andreia blew up for him. I have my suspicions about the attraction, but I'll keep them to myself. The older kids had fun with the balloons too; first they popped all the ones we had blown up, then they blew up and popped the rest.





Andreia finally got her chance to open her presents, and she was kind enough to share the experience with Amanda! Not bad for an only who has always lived in a house full of catering adults. I think Amanda was more impressed with some of the gifts than Andreia was, who knows what lurks in the minds of little girls?!?



So, that's pretty much the end of the birthday story except to note that we really need to work on her understanding of money. When she opened the card from her Great-Aunt & Uncle she exclaimed, "Oooh, a one!" as the twenty fluttered to the floor. That and score for Mom with the penguin birthday card that got the biggest reaction of anything from our girl today.

Tabbikat's Thursday 13 #12

13 Craft Items My House Is Never Without

Arts & crafts are a big thing in our house, someone is always making something. We have gone so far as to stretch our crafting in to the digital age and even my 6 year old knows how to use paint shop. So in a house of crafters here are 13 kid friendly crafting supplies we are never without.

1. 
   construction paper


2. 
   paint


3. 
   brushes


4. 
   crayons


5. 
   copy paper


6. 
   glue


7. 
   scissors


8. 
   dried beans & seeds


9. 
   felt


10. 
    aluminum tart tins


11. 
    yarn


12. 
    clay


13. 
    markers

Bonus:

modge podge


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Writer's Wednesday #12

Well, the writer is stumped so...



The Story Of Your Life
Andy Skib ~ To Have Heroes ~ The Pearls ~ MWK



Fall Back Into Me
David Cook ~ American Idol S7 ~ MWK ~ Axium



Streetcorner Symphony
Rob Thomas ~ Matchbox 20

Thank goodness these guys don't seem to have my problem!