My name is Cairo and this is the story of me and my posse. (aka my 5-soon-to-be-6 younger siblings!!) For the convenience of my readers, I have categorized my blog! Under 'links', click on whichever subject looks interesting to you, that will show all the entries I have written in that category. Hope you enjoy it! http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/cairo/ en-us Homeschool Blogger Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:04:00 -0500 Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:04:00 -0500 I'm switching my blog over to: http://www.thestoryofmeandmyposse.blogspot.com/ Come visit! Cairo You can follow me on blogger if you want. I am still keeping this blog so I can comment on peoples blogs, but I will rarely post. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/cairo/737142/ Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:04:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/cairo/737142/ Check out my other blog for my bro is so weird part 2 and and cute little photo. http://thestoryofmeandmyposse.blogspot.com/ Cairo Yeah, it sure does seem like I'm switching, doesn't it? Maybe I will...  You haven't found out how yet, have you auntie? :) http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/cairo/735560/ Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:27:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/cairo/735560/ Check out how weird my bro is at my other blog:  My bro is weird Cairo P.S. Pics of our 12 passenger van, soon to come! http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/cairo/734961/ Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:59:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/cairo/734961/ Hey y'all! Remember at thanksgiving when we sang the 'happy' song? And you wanted to hear it? HERE IT IS! Me and Jesus by Stellar Kart: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1tq9a_stellar-kart-me-and-jesus_music For those who don't know: Who has little siblings/children that get mad and say 'EVERYONE HATES ME!!!" Ya? Well, every time someone in our family does that, me and Sloan burst into song 'SOMEONE LOVES YOU EVEN WHEN YOU DON'T THINK SO, DON'T YOU KNOW? YOU GOT ME AND JESUS!!" Sometimes we do the other parts, but mostly we just stick to the chorus.... Cairo http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/cairo/733834/ Tue, 6 Oct 2009 18:20:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/cairo/733834/ I don't know what to do! I kind of want to switch my whole blog over to my blogsot, but I still want to have this blog because of all my friends on here and all. Oh what oh what should I do?! Blogspot is easier because I could do pics in with the words, but HSB is better because it doesn't have as many weird people on it... :) Oh, and I want all my entries over there if I switch, but I don't know how to import the whole thing.... does anyone know how to do that? Cairo http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/cairo/733714/ Tue, 6 Oct 2009 12:45:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/cairo/733714/ Well, after a freezing walk to remember, we went in the J's new hot tub! Then out to the barn. We played 'catch the chick' where we caught all 9 little chicks, then released and caught and realeased some more. After pizza and cookies, we went back out and tried a new game. SUMO HAY!! Two people battle to the death on a heap of hay. Yup, that's what we cousins do! In the morning we went out to the barn for more sumo hay, then came in for breakfast, then more sumo hay, then hot tub. After hot tubbing, we decided to calm down a bit with a card game. Ever played cheat? You should. Its awesome! Although our intent was to calm down, it didn't work that way and we got into many laughing fits, most of which featured HAVEN! After cheat we had turkey and then, all to soon, it was time to go. Sorry brittany and brianna for not bringing your books! I'll remember next time! Oh, about the new blog. HSB is great, but not if you like to post a ton of pics. (Sheepish grin) So I opened up a new blog where I can post pics to my hearts content. I'll still keep this blog for words, but pics go over here. So there you have it. Thanks giving in a blog entry. (or two, if you count the pix!) Cairo http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/cairo/733560/ Mon, 5 Oct 2009 20:13:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/cairo/733560/ Who's excited? I am! Today I made the buns, excited now, Haven?! I knew you would be, you ate so many of my buns last year, claiming they tasted like candy?!?!?! I sent auntie Jess a craft idea for some of the kids, did you get it auntie? I am SO excited to see you guys!!!!!!!! Cairo P.S. Brittany and Brianna, I am bringing your books I borrowed! http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/cairo/731529/ Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:59:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/cairo/731529/ I don't hear any cheering? Oh, where did everyone go? Here you come! You were running to get your fiddles out! I'm glad you are excited!!! I am too! When I was at Granny and Gramps' house, we put together a song list that we thought most of you would know. (or at least be able to figure them out!) If we learned it at fiddle camp with Erin, I will put a * beside it. Ready to get started? Now I hear you!                        Song                                                                               Key                           Difficulty Rubber Dolly (With varitions if you know them)  *                            D                                  Easy Tennesee waltz *                                                                                    D                                  Easy Faded Love  *                                                                                           G                            In between Soldiers Joy*                                                                                            D                          Two variations Chinese Break down *                                                                           D                                A bit harder   St. Anne's Reel                                                                                         D                                 More difficult Boil them Cabbage Down *                    I think it changes, but you know how it goes!            Easy Amazing Grace         I forget what key, but do you J's or Fehlers do it in a certain key already? I want ot teach you a song I learned first hand from Gord Stobbe too, called SACHA. It has a dance for the younger kids. :) If you have any other fiddle camp faves, post them in a comment. (like pelican reel-whiskey before breakfast etc...) That doesn't sound too hard right? Granny and Gramps are practicing them too, that is why I changed the key of Faded Love, to make it easier for Gramps to sing. (I originally learned it in D, I don't know about the rest of you) We are all going to Auntie Jess' the weekend of the 3rd of October, so practice really hard until then, so we can all play together! Then just imagine how awesome christmas will be when we add G and G to our band!! Oh, ya, I forgot, practice between the 3rd and Chrstmas too! http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/cairo/729006/ Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:42:01 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/cairo/729006/ I don't hear any cheering? Oh, where did everyone go? Here you come! You were running to get your fiddles out! I'm glad you are excited!!! I am too! When I was at Granny and Gramps' house, we put together a song list that we thought most of you would know. (or at least be able to figure them out!) If we learned it at fiddle camp with Erin, I will put a * beside it. Ready to get started? Now I hear you!                        Song                                                                               Key                           Difficulty Rubber Dolly (With varitions if you know them)  *                            D                                  Easy Tennesee waltz *                                                                                    D                                  Easy Faded Love  *                                                                                           G                            In between Soldiers Joy*                                                                                            D                          Two variations Chinese Break down *                                                                           D                                A bit harder   St. Anne's Reel                                                                                         D                                 More difficult Boil them Cabbage Down *                    I think it changes, but you know how it goes!            Easy Amazing Grace         I forget what key, but do you J's or Fehlers do it in a certain key already? I want ot teach you a song I learned first hand from Gord Stobbe too, called SACHA. It has a dance for the younger kids. :) If you have any other fiddle camp faves, post them in a comment. (like pelican reel-whiskey before breakfast etc...) That doesn't sound too hard right? Granny and Gramps are practicing them too, that is why I changed the key of Faded Love, to make it easier for Gramps to sing. (I originally learned it in D, I don't know about the rest of you) We are all going to Auntie Jess' the weekend of the 3rd of October, so practice really hard until then, so we can all play together! Then just imagine how awesome christmas will be when we add G and G to our band!! Oh, ya, I forgot, practice between the 3rd and Chrstmas too! http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/cairo/729005/ Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:42:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/cairo/729005/ Ok, so AO and GG came for supper... After AO and GG left me and Granny went CRAY-ZAY!!! First, we went to the $ store to buy some *supplies*. I had brought this half finished book that I wanted to finish, and we hadn't even started!!! Y'know those little cloth baby activity books? One page will say, "I can braid!" then it has three strings that you braid? And stuff like that. Any way, A friend of ours gave us a big huge box of fabric once, and that was in it.  The pages it already had were, "Button my flowers!" Where you button the flowers to the stem, "I can count up to ten" where there were 10 peices of red ribbon, the first one with one botton sewed on, the next with two, then three... you get the idea. That one was only half finished, so we sewed on half on the red ribbon and most of the buttons,"I can braid", and one with a bunny wearing a bow tie you had to tie up. Me and Granny added eyes for the bunny, whiskers for the bunny and a tail. Then me and Granny got creative and added some pages of our own! "Zip the tent" We made a tent out of an old cloth then added a zipper so that it could open and close, we also sewed on some green fabric to look like trees. "weave a quilt"  Where Granny cut up strips of different colours of felt and sewed them to the page then you fold them over and under, over and under etc...And the last one we made, (my fave!) a velcro X's and O's game! We have six orange felt circles, attached to tiny peices of velcro, and 6 blue felt squares attached to velcro. Then a 3 by 3 grid with a peice of velcro in each spot. (we added extra velcro so we could have extra peices...) After that, we surged the whole thing together and we were done! The next day, we woke up and played music until it was time to go. We went to 'Mineral world' to buy some little starfish for the kids, then out to a Greek place for lunch..... MMMMMMM. Me wuv gweek food... After lunch we went to the airport. Then I came home. Cairo http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/cairo/727238/ Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:10:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/cairo/727238/