My Finished Coral Reef...and a school update

I have finally finished my Coral Reef picture. I have been adding to it over the last few days. As you can see there are now two crabs on the sea bed, ac lam (wiggly thing), a sleeping whale and a turtle. I have added in the dolphin's bottle nose and a few extra fish including sail fin tangs. I really like my picture.

I went to school today and had an excellent time. I answered my name in the register (roll call) again, I got myself completely undressed for Dance and got into my dance kit and then...... I took part in the dance lesson. I had to be a grasshopper´and I really enjoyed it. Mrs G, my teacher, was really pleased with me. This week we are learning about the letter E...I am going to draw an Eagle Spotted ray as it begins with an E. I said to Äiti "I particularly enjoyed school today".

My First Joke!

I started telling jokes today. I was in the car when I started saying "why do yogurt pots have big ears...because they are pretending to be elephants".

Here is a quick video of me telling some of my jokes,I think you'll find them very funny! There is a translation underneath, I have a cold at the moment so sound very stuffy.

What did the octopus have 10 shoes....because they didn't fit on him and they were too big. Why do yogurts have very tall buildings...they build up trees. Two dolphins swimming in a tank, one turns to the other and the other says 'how can we drive this thing'.

Not a lot else to report from today, I went to Sainsbury's and then to the bookshop.

As you can see Äiti has changed the look of this blog, I chose the colours! Today also saw the 4000th person visit this blog. The person came from Dunbarton, New Hampshire...not Scotland! The 2000th and the 3000th visitor was from Seattle and called Lorraine, I'm going to meet her in a few weeks time!

A fishy weekend!

I have had a great weekend so far! After I'd eaten a big breakfast, had a long bath and got dressed, I was asked if I wanted to go to the aquarium. We drove to Portsmouth, had lunch and then went to see the fish. It was excellent. I love fish so much, especially Rays of all sorts (manta, eagle spotted, stingray) and clown fish. I got to see Black tipped reef sharks, porcupine fish, box fish (which I thought should be renamed cube fish). I saw the huge octopus, the monster carp, the otters and turtles. It was a great visit and it was made even better by daddy buying me my own clown fish!

I came home and drew my clown fish....

I then drew on my whiteboard a whole coral reef... from the top...Bottlenose dolphin (with blowhole), Leopard moray eel, Black tipped reef shark (with black tips), baby jelly fish, mother jellyfish, seahorse, Eagle spotted ray, Panther grouper x 2, Clown fish, baby manta ray, 2 more Groupers, starfish and octopus!

At home Äiti made me a flat fish veggie burger with coral reef broccoli, coral carrots and peas for my dinner! I was also allowed to watch Finding Nemo...I tried to name all the fish and sea creatures.

Here is a photo of me, taken in the car on Äiti's mobile (hence bad quality)...

I wrote a letter to daddy

I wrote daddy a letter today and put it in an envelope for him, here it is. It says "To daddy, I lov(e) yo(u), by Sophie xx". He liked his letter.

I also drew a daddy sphynx cat holding its kitten. Sphynx cats are hairless cats and don't have whiskers- so I didn't draw them!

I've had a great week at school, I read to Mrs G and to the class, I answered my name in the register correctly and I am upset as I want to go tomorrow, but it isn't a school day. I made crispy cakes at school, painted lots of things and played loads. I have been skipping into school in the mornings. I can now even take off my school uniform on my own, the button on my shirt were hard but I can do them now, the kilt was a bit tricky but I have mastered that too.

Some videos, arty bits and cats!

Today Äiti managed to get me on video today. The first video is of me reading. This was my first read ever of the book.

I can see something shining said Splash and he swam towards the sparkles thinking it was a star.....The more the baby dolphin swam around, the more shiny creatures he saw swimming and spinning in the water...he swam through an underwater garden of swirling seaweed and shimmering shells. He even swam past a pile of pirate treasure....Hello baby dolphin what brings you here she asked, but splash felt very shy. He didn’t know what to say... In that case you can have it because you are very kind said the mermaid and she handed the shining star to Splash...Splash gave his mummy the star and she was pleased. Together they played with it all day long.

The next video is of me singing and dancing! wait until you see how talented I am! lol I have made a song up about my sock puppet called Sockily!
Playful Little kitten...Sockily’s playful little kitten ...Spinning round and round and round and he went next time....Swimming to his little splash, hmmmmmm hmmmmmm...And there is lots of socks, there are 10 socks there and Sockily is far away from his mother. And Sockily doesn’t know what to do and he rode back home to his daddy and äiti at their house.....There, that is a nice little sockily song, No, I’ll do another song. Sockily’s nice little playful kitten...Sockily’s nice little playful kitten, he looks very happy...blah blah blah
Some art pictures from today- my Rainbow Fish using paint pens and paper..

My sock puppets that I made today...both called Sockily!

My underwater scene made out of felt, it was very hard for me to cut, but there is seaweed, pink coral in the corner, fish, eels and anemones...

Here are my 2 cats, Tiger and Marmalade...

My 100th post!

Wow, it was nearly a year ago that I started this blog, in the last 10 months I have written 100 posts. It has been a lot of fun and I will keep going a while longer! Thank you to everyone who has read my ramblings, I love reading the comments and I have enjoyed sharing the day to day happenings of me!

So, for today's rambling....
When I went to Sylvie's house I fell in love with her abacus and I just had to have one, so for Christmas I got one, my very own abacus...I was so happy! Here is a video of me doing some simple sums on it....

Here is another video of me playing around with words. I love to read words especially silly words......

Finally, this afternoon I have been very busy, I built (with a bit of help) a train track, the track was running round my zoo. I needed water so I had to paint some paper blue, I needed a boat (which doubled up as a cat box), so I painted an old shoe box. The toilet paper is the ice lands where the polar bear lives. I did make a desert out of a yellow blanket too. The boat spent ages going backwards and forwards to the train line where the trains would take the new animals on a tour of the zoo.... I was kept amused for hours!

Á fun weekend and some updates.

This weekend we went up to see Aiti and daddy's friends- Sarah and Pip. Sarah and Pip have a lovely Labradoodle dog called Ripley. I was very well behaved in the evening and even went to sleep there- aiti and daddy drank too much so we had to stay the night. This morning we all went for a big breakfast at the local cafe, I had beans and eggs. Itwas a good weekend.

On Friday I went to the doctors, I haven't been well in about a month so Aiti decided it was time to get be checked out. I had to be weighed- I weighed in at 26lbs fully clothed, with shoes on and severe constipation! The doctor gave me some nice medicine and I am feeling much lighter now!

I've also just hit the 400 book mark at the library, that means I have read over 400 different books in 6 months.

My new cat...and a school update!

A few days ago we got a new cat, I have names him Marmalade. He is a Bengal-Maine Coon cross and he is lovely. He is only 3.5months old and looks tiny compared to Tiger. Tiger and Marmalade are getting used to each other, they like to play fight a lot...normally it is Marmalade that starts it!

School is OK, I haven't cried yet. I am beginning to talk to people and was seen laughing today! I got a sticker yesterday for a drawing that I did, I stood up in front of the whole class (all 6 girls) and talked about my picture.

Here I am being silly! Yes, those are my trousers on my head!

My first day at school!

Today I went to school and I quite enjoyed it. We left the house at 8am so that I could be there for 8.40am. I met my classroom assistant and said goodbye to Aiti and Daddy. Aiti picked me up at 11.50am and took me for lunch. I told Aiti that I had drawn a picture of a snow leopard, written my name, refused my snack and milk, been to my PE lesson which was dance. I got undressed and changed into my PE kit and tracksuit, but didn't join in the dance lesson. I sung a few songs and I found some numbers. I didn't cry once either! I am looking forward to going back tomorrow. I was so tired at the end that I could barely walk and had to have a nap!

Opa's 60th Birthday

It was Opa's 60th Birthday last weekend. Opa and Saskia came over from Amsterdam to stay with us for a few days. Aiti and Saskia arranged a small surprise party for Opa. It was fun even though I wasn't very well at all. I fell asleep in the restaurant and then kept drifting off to sleep all evening...I had a very high temperature and cough.

Here are some photos of the day... Photo 1 shows most of the Q family. Photo 2 shows 4 generations- me, aiti, Opa and my Great Granny. Photo 3 is me asleep on the restaurant floor!

Here is a photo of Opa and I. Opa is a Typographer...he designs fonts/type. Here we are doing a drawing of my toy otter. Opa drew me lots of pictures and letters. I gave him my very own Sophie QC font in multi-colours!

My own art video!

Aiti took a video of me today drawing... I am full of snot at the moment so there is a translation under the video...


First I’m drawing your head Rosie Cat…ooops! Then I’m drawing your eyes…and I’m drawing your other eye…now your nose …then I’m putting your ???? there Rosie and your ears. Then lets draws your body. How many legs have you got? “12345678910” counted Rosie. You haven’t got 10….1 2 3 and the other leg, 4 you’ve got 4. “Not 5” asked Rosie. No! There you go. I’m going to draw her other ear, there it is, there. She normally likes pens. She needs grass.

Happy New Year...and my first book!

Happy New Year to all those that read my ramblings! Yesterday (New Years Eve) we went to London to meet with a friend from Finland. I got to go to Hamleys, eat Chinese food and go to a huge bookshop. We got the train home which was fun too. Aiti and daddy stayed up late and drank too much wine. I was ever so nice and gave them a lie in until 9am....this is unheard of normally!

Today I made my first ever book- I am so proud of it. I wrote it all myself though Aiti helped with some spellings, I stuck the pages together with sellotape and I illustrated it myself. I also remembered to write page numbers on each page. I added two more pages after I'd finished it.





Page 1- Cat by Sophie. Page 2/3- Korat cat in a garden, fish in pond. Page 5-One day a snow leopard went out. It was cold. Page 6/7 Rosie (written) cat in her garden saying "meow". Rosie is eating olives (circles on ground). Her own spellings this time.Page 8- The End. Page 9- Tiger cat showing his spots. Page 10- Mog Cat swims. Mog is wearing arm bands, he is happy as he is multi-coloured.

Here is a cat that I made out of playdoh...

Christmas 2007

Thank you to all my friends and relatives that sent me Christmas presents, I was a very lucky girl this Christmas.

Aiti and daddy gave me a personalised jigsaw, they had taken a photo of all my toys and had the photo turned into a 96pc wooden jigsaw, it is great. I also got an abacus, new playdoh, animal encyclopedia and new pens. From my relatives and friends I got loads of Scheich model animals, books, jigsaws, stickers, night light, alphabet lion, swimming towel etc. One of the best presents though was Aiti's 'Rush Hour' game, I seem to have played it more than her. I also really like my letter printing stamps that Opa sent me, I can stamp words with them.

Here is a video of me playing it...

My Granny and Papa came to stay over Christmas. Papa is a very keen bird watcher and there was a bird nearby that he had never seen before. We all had great fun playing in the park that the Parakeets were in. Papa has now seen 387 different birds in the UK, he has seen tons more though around the world.

Here I am in the park...

My trip to Egypt and Jordan

I have just got back from a great holiday to Egypt. We stayed at a great hotel called the Movenpick-Taba, it had lots of swimming pools and a beach. I had to go on an airplane to get there.

I got to ride on a camel, it was a lot of fun. The camel man put my meerkat on the camel's head!

I went on a glass bottomed boat twice. I learnt loads of fish names and when I couldn't remember the names, I just made them up so some fish were called 'red stripped purple fin fish'. Daddy went diving one day so I drew him in his diving kit with flippers. Aiti took me snorkeling one day with my arm bands on but the water was very cold so I only swam with one little fish! (pictures- our boat, a ribbon fish with baby, daddy with his flippers, a lionfish, fish by the coral with jelly fish (and cat)).



Here are some of the other fish I saw on the coral reefs. Aiti took me snorkeling one day with my arm bands on but the water was very cold so I only swam with one little fish!

I also went to a stone city called Petra, all the houses were in the mountain rocks. I loved the pink and purple rocks and stones. I walked nearly 4 miles around Petra but I did get to go on a horse the last half mile, that was fun.


I really wanted to see a dolphin, Sphynx pussycats and Egyptian Mau cats. Daddy bought me a little wooden cat that I have named 'Mauly'...as in Egyptian Mau!


Here are some photos of my holiday....

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New drawings and video

Here are some drawings I did this week...

One is a monkey and the other is a cat. I wrote Thank you though Aiti gave me the spellings!

Here is a video of me doing my jigsaw, it is only 48pc and it takes me 5 minutes. Aiti has edited the video so you dont get the full 5 mins! She will add a translation too..

Please can we take this to the sand cat. I want to take this to show the sand cats.
“Come back, come back” shouted the pandas, “yes” they said. That’s the baby and that’s the daddy.
I want to take this one to Emily’s house. Emily might like this one because its got bears and pandas. I want to take it to Emily’s house.
Which bit am I having aiti… this bit with the leopard. This is the leopard and he likes to leap, leap and leap and leap and leap etc. Leap leap leap!
What are sphynxes called? No not sphinxes, just sphynx cats because they love to eat toys. Do you think sphynx cats love to eat toys.
Oh 2 bits missing, no, where are they? I wasn’t sitting on them at all. Please can I do another before we go to the vets?

I had a lovely afternoon today as I went to Emily's house for a Christmas party. We made Christmas trees, decorated gingerbread trees and ate loads of food. Emily ate about 18 mini sausages, I ate at least 8 chicken dippers! We swapped presents and I loved mine, I showed daddy straight away.

I went to school today!

I went to school today for my introductory morning and I loved it! We had to leave the house at 8am to get there in time. I chatted the whole way about new puzzles, books and writing. Aiti and I have different ideas about school as she just wants me to make friends and have fun!
The first activity was making pictures out of magnetic shapes, I made a cat! I told Mrs G what I'd made and the shapes I'd used. Then it was the register and we had to recognise our names. Then we could choose an activity, I chose playdoh and made lots of cats. Then I did a drawing of a cat, it was a good picture so I drew another one. Mrs G thought my drawings were very good. Then it was time for snack time, I had to find my number and go and sit by it. I did that and I counted up to my number on my fingers. I didn't want my snack but had my juice instead. Then it was nearly time to go as aiti had some forms to fill in at the office. I skipped out of my classroom saying that I was very excited to be going again.
There were 7 other girls in my class, we all wore the same clothes which was funny! I am the youngest by about 9months in there.
I start properly in January, I will be going 3 mornings a week for 3 hours at a time.

Some Sophie-isms

"Is it possible to use the potty as I'm desperate for a poo"
"I just poked myself in the eye with my foot.....I was washing myself like a cat, I lick my foot and rub my face"
"yes, it is both annoying and irritating" when aiti told me my baby whingy voice was annoying
"It isn't raining, it is drizzling"
"Not yet, in a minute"
"if I had a panda I could cut it in half so that I'd have two bits of panda.....if I had 2 cheetahs I could cut them in half and I could have 4 bits of cheetah...they couldn't run away then because they'd be cut in half"
"Oooo Tiger is in the window, if he fell out the window there would be 0 Tiger. If 5 tigers sat in the window and fell out, there wouldn't be any tigers left because they'd have run away"
"That is not a ring tailed lemur, it is a red ruffed lemur"
I am getting good at lying too, if I do something silly like hurt Tiger, aiti takes one of my toy cats away and puts it on the shelf. Daddy asks me why there is a cat on the shelf and I usually say "Catty was tired and needed a rest".

A big trip up North!

This weekend I went all the way up North to see my Auntie Cat and Noel. It took us 7.5hours to get there because the traffic was so bad. We went to a great Aquarium and I saw seals and otters, they were very funny swimming around on their backs and diving in the water. We also went to an Open Farm, it was so cold that we didn't see many animals, I played happily in the indoor play area. Auntie Cat also took me swimming, it was quite cold but I had fun, opposite the pool was a library where I read a few books to Noel. I had a really good weekend and had lots of fun. Here are some pictures I drew of the aquarium...

The first picture is of an otter, he is floating on his back with his hands in the air and feet sticking out. I have also drawn his large tail, the writing says 'otter'. My other picture is of a rainbow fish swimming in the sea. I have drawn fins and a tail on it.

I was very excited to see Tiger again, he had been at the Cat Hotel whilst we were away, he meowed very loudly all the way home.

I went to the Creche today and read to the ladies in charge. They didn't know I could read and I hadn't showed them, but today I did! Aiti is delighted as she thinks it means that I am happy and settled there. The ladies at the creche kept saying 'wow' to me and then asked Aiti lots of questions about me!