Johanna Speaks

Yesterday Noelle had a Bridal Shower! 

My friend Sophie and my other friend Abby came to the Bridal Shower too. And Abby's mom and Sophie's mom and my mom.

The Bridal Shower was at Camron's Grammas. It starts at 3:30 so we left at 3:00. We were a little late but it did not start yet so that was good. Everybody was just talking for a while. There was a trampoline there and a treehouse and swings and some baby kittens too. They were really cute! There were five of them. Three were all orange and one black and one white. 

My friends and I all went on the trampoline together. There was another girl our age too. I forgot her name. But I do know that it started with a K. We played with her until the Bridal Shower started. 

There was a really nice table with some seats so we all sat there when the Bridal Shower started. Some people were bringing food out to everybody that was there. Camron's sisters brought out some games for everybody to play. The game was that people had to write down on a piece of paper that the people bring to you and it says what is Noelle's middle name and what eye color she has and stuff like that and the person who got most of the things right than they get a prize! I didn't get any prizes though. All of my friends helped each other and I also helped them too. It was really fun! After we played the game some people brought out some dessert for everybody. 

When we were done eating our dessert Noelle started to open some of the presents. Noelle got a lot of presents! My friends and I put all of the presents in Noelle's car. We stuffed a lot but it did work out thankfully. And nothing broke. I love going to Bridal Showers!

Here are some pictures and videos that I took:

Coyote Peterson is in Tottori Prefecture in Japan. He is trying to find a Japanese toad. He found one!

Coyote Peterson said he does not know if the Japanese toad is a male or a female that he caught.

He said the females grow larger than the males.

The Japanese toad eats any " Arthropod" or " Crustacean" that they can come across in forests. Crustacean means any insects that have sheals like crawdads and shrimp and stuff like that. Arthropod means the same thing I think.

Coyote Peterson said the Japanese toad is always on the move. It does not really hop it only hops if it feels like it going to be eaten or something. The frog was fine on Coyote Petersons' hands and it did not look like it wanted to hop at all it was just walking nicely on his hands. 

Coyote Peterson said the Japanese toad has great eyesight in the dark and during the day. It does not have really any pretenders because its skin is very toxic. So if a predator comes and tries to eat the frog it can smell very bad so the pretenders would go away. And can spray this white toxic stuff. If it gets into your mouth or eyes, what it would do is if it sprays you in the eyes then your eyes will hurt a lot and it will be itchy for a while. If it gets into your mouth it will taste very bad and I think it will hurt your mouth a lot. I would never want to do that at all.

My choir performance is next week! I can't wait. Last Tuesday we practiced in a church. We are going to perform there. I forgot what the church is called. The building is very big! It's way bigger than our church. Our church is half the size of that church. And there are so many seats. I think it was a three-story church!

When I first got there we practiced all the songs that we are going to do for the performance. After that Mrs.Doomer let us outside for a half hour to play while she was working with the Senior choir. Two adults had to watch us make sure everybody was nice to each other and made sure that we were entertained and nobody would get lost.

 There were snacks outside for us on a crate. My friend Sophie brought snacks too. She brought these little chocolate stick things. I forgot what they are called. But it was really good! Some other kids brought snacks too. Only a few people brought snakes.

 When Mrs.Doomer said she was ready to work with us know she let the Seiner choir go outside and play while we were going to practice singing and we kept doing the same thing where the Junior choir goes outside while the Seiner choir works with Mrs.Doomer and then we would switch. And then Mrs.Doomer said she wanted the Seiner and the Junior choir to come and we would practice altogether on one song that we had to learn for the performance. It was " He's Got The Whole World in His Hands" with " This Is My Fathers World".I really like that song!

We had so much fun!

My brother Gideon saw some foxes! In our backyard! They were grey foxes. I followed the foxes a little bit and then I found their den! I heard baby fox noises from the bush that is down the street and a little bit down the hill. I didn't see the baby foxes but I heard them. When baby foxes are calling it sounds like they are yelping. Then I saw the dad coming to the mom and I think he was bringing them food or something. 

Here is a picture of a California grey fox:

The face of the grey fox kind of looks like a raccoon to me.

It was really cool to see grey foxes in real life!

Yesterday I had a little performance for my choir at "The Touch of Heaven". Elder people live there. Our choir did four songs for them. The seiner choir did three songs it was really good. One of the songs that we did was "The Lost is Found". I had a little solo for the first part of the song. I was a little scared at first but I get used to it. 

My friend Sophie also had a solo part in the song too. Three other people had solos too. They are great singers! My friend Sophie is a really good singer too.  

The song's that we did was "Shalom Chaverim". The second song that we did was" King of Kings And Lord Lords". The third one was " The Lost is Found ". And we also did Kyrie. It was lots of fun!

After that, we went to a park with goodies to eat.Mrs.Doomer said everybody can bring snacks at the park and lots of people did bring lots of snacks. It was super good. There were different types of cookies and there were different types of juice and popsicles and everything. 

Here are some video’s when we were at " The Touch of Heaven".