Wishing For Robo-Reptile

This one is for Lindy. She is Kelsey's sister that's a mom.

Do you know what's really really cool? Robo-Reptile is really cool. He has a mote control. When you push the buttons, he does stuff like walk and roar. It is so cool like the Robo-Raptor I got from Santa the first Christmas. Robo-Reptile is a lot of moneys so I hope Santa can bring it. If he can't, I will save my moneys until I get enough. Robo-Reptile is 100 dollars. I have 3 dollars in my bank right now. That means if Santa can't bring it, I'll have to clean my room a lot. McCall says my room is the messiest room she's ever seen.

Wednesdays with West: You Are My Sunshine

I have a froggy named sunshine and it plays my special song called "Sunshine." Here's how it goes:

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.
You make me happy when skies are gray.
You'll never know, pal, how much I love you.
Please don't take my sunshine away.

That's a really special song and you don't sing it silly, you sing it special.

I Have a Germ Bug

This one is for Gammy.

This is a picture of a microraptor. It is a bird-like raptor.

Weston has a bug today- a germ bug. I just caught a little bit of his, but Weston has the rest. We have fevers but we are on opposite schedules. I had a fever before and now I don't. Weston has a fever now. We take medicine that tastes like blueberries. Dadda has to go to Wal-Mart to get us more Wal-Mart Tylenol and Wal-Mart profen and holly-day cookies. Those are the cookies that I don't bake, I just eat them cold.

Monday Mailbag: Dino Books, Chapstick, and Diplodocus

Steph said...

Bridger,
You continue to amaze me with all the dinosaurs you know about. I don't know anyone who is as intrigued with dinosaurs as you are. I'm glad you have a blog to share all this information on. Keep learning!

BRIDGER RESPONDS: I'm glad you read my blog. Did you know I have lots of books about dinosaurs? You even gave me one. Grace gave me one too. I have so many books that I can't even count them all right now. I think I have 164 of them. They have pictures and charts in them. Momma doesn't know how to read so dadda reads them to me. I read them all- even the Cat in the Hat dinosaur book. So I need more now.

Jane's Mom said...
Bridger, Jane says thank you (for dedicating his blog post to her).

BRIDGER RESPONDS: You're welcome Jane-Jane. You have lipstick that looks like candy. I have chapstick because lipstick is for girls. I have a lot of chapstick. I can't wait to play with you at school tomorrow!

Tiff said...
It may be a long, long time before your sneaker spider comes out of hibernation. Good luck with that.

BRIDGER RESPONDS: Guess what, Tiffy? That sneaker spider waked up yesterday and he's hibernating again today. I just keep him warm and cozy. You know what else, Tiff? I just watched a show called Mini Monsters that had a diplodocus in it. I call him "backfeet" because his feet look like komodo dragon feet.

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The Sneaker Spider Takes a Peek at Winter

This one is for Tammy. She has rocks that you eat.

The sneaker spider waked up today! His legs are out and he's climbing on the grass in his bottle. I took him to the window to get warm in the sun because he was a little cold. The sun can make things warm because it is so bright. Silly sneaker spider- he must think it's spring already. When he finds ou it's still winter he will go back to sleep again.

I hope Santa Claus comes to the sneaker spider. Maybe he could bring him a bug park with all kinds of other bugs in it, with a button that opens it and closes it and nothing can ever get out of it. That way I could let him out of his jar and he could be free in the bug park. He would love that so much.

[Dad's Note: Amazingly enough, the sneaker spider did indeed wake up today.]

O Little Town of Buffalo

This one is for Kelsey Banketer.

I'm so excited for Christmas! I love all the holly days but I really love Christmas. Christmas is about the heart that we show and the care that we show.

Jesus was born on Christmas, so Christmas is for Jesus. He was born in Buffalo 164 years ago. His momma was Mary and his dad was Heavenly Father. Grace taught me that. Now Jesus lives in the stars and he watches over us. He loves me very much.

[Dad's Note: Buffalo, huh? He probably got that from the same Bible where he read about Noah and his trailer.]

Jimmy the Dinosaur

Jimmy the dinosaur was a toddler t-rex. He looked a little bit like Chomper in Land Before Time. He was shopping with his mom and he stealed a ring pop from the store because he wanted one so bad. His mom smelled that ring pop and she said "where did you get that ring pop? Did you steal it? Jimmy the dinosaur said "Yes I did. I am very sorry."

Jimmy's mom said "Do you know what you need to do? You need to say sorry for stealing the ring pop and say a prayer and ask Jesus to forgive you." Jimmy felt 943 bad, so he went back in that store and telled the worker sorry. Then he said a special prayer and asked Jesus to forgive him. Jimmy the dinosaur was happy when he repented. That story teaches you not to steal. But I already know not to steal.

I drawed a picture in my mind of Jimmy the dinosaur while I was telling that story. I will remember it because I remember all the pictures I draw in my mind.

What I'm Thankful For

This one is for my cousin Simmy.

Today is Thanksgiving. I am thankful for Jesus and the dinosaurs- especially brachiosaurus and other longnecks, and velociraptor and compsagnathus. I am thankful for the sneaker spider and my shark in the bottle. Do you know what I'm not thankful for? Bad guys and Satan.

Today we had a feast. Everybody else had turkey and rolls and stuff but I had spaghettios. I don't eat turkey because I don't eat nice animals. I only eat animals that are bad or mean. Turkeys aren't very smart but they are nice.

Simmy would like to say what he's thankful for:

SIMMY: I'm thankful for my mom and dad and all kinds of cows and every single world.

Wednesdays with West: When I Grow Up

This one is for Coulter because he is little.

When I grow up I will be able to cut Spam like dadda. I will work on race cars and I will work all night. When you get a flat tire it goes bubump. Then you get a black thing and go outside and pump the tire. Then the tire gets big. Race car drivers race all night and whoever gets to the finish line is the winner and gets the Pixon Cup.

Duke is With Jesus

This one is for poor Duke.

Today is a very sad day. Tiffy's dog Duke died. He was very very sick and he is with Jesus now. I have very special feelings for animals and people when they die. I think about them and I say special prayers for them.

Heavenly Father, please bless Duke-Duke so he'll get better up there with Jesus. Please bless everyone in the whole world. Please bless Tiff because I love her so much. I love her 43, even 95. Please bless her to be happy. Name of Jesus Christ, amen.

Monday Mailbag: Jack Hanna, Komodo Dragons, and Becoming a Man

Grammy said...
I bet there are places unexplored, just waiting for you to grow up and go find them! I think you will be famous someday like Jack Hanna or the Crocodile Hunter. Then I will tell all my friends I know you, get your autograph, and make you take me out to dinner.

BRIDGER RESPONDS: Heck yeah! We could go to Dinosaur McDonalds. Jack Hanna is in Africa. I know because he sent me a letter a couple days ago. He reads my blog, but I don't know how he does that in the jungle because there not a lot of computers in the jungle. He goes there when he's not at SeaWorld. I sure miss the Crocodile Hunter. I don't know what it's like to be with Jesus because I never been there- only when I was being made- and I don't remember that.

Sami said...
Is that real, Bridger? Is a Komodo Dragon really real? Scary!

BRIDGER RESPONDS: Yes, Sami, they are real. They are huge and gigantic. They aren't so fast, but they can still get their prey. They live on an island in Asia. They could kill a person but they could not kill dinosaurs, because dinosaurs are the most powerful creatures in the whole wide world. Sami, did you have fun at Disneyland? Did you go on girly rides?

Grammy said...
Yeah... I think I was about 43 when I started making my own food. You don't have to worry about getting to old to play. I bet dadda plays a lot during the day. I go outside at night with my boys on the trampoline and tell ghost stories and sing along to their underarm toots. We laugh so hard. So see.. you are never to old to play and have fun!

BRIDGER RESPONDS: 43? A four and a three? I can't believe that. Stein the dolphin is 43 and he doesn't even make his own food. Little kids feed him his food when they go to SeaWorld. When you're a man you always have to do work. You're an old man when you turn 94 and you get lines down your face. Then you die.

[Dad's Note: Bridger did indeed get a letter from Jack Hanna's assistant, Amy Feller, at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium. Jack was indeed in Africa. And he does indeed read Bridger's blog.]

The Sneaker Spider Is Hibernating

This one is for Tiff. It was her birthday party and I gave her purple flowers and blue chocolate because blue is Tiff's favorite color. The thing I loved about it is that she loved my present better than any one she got.

The sneaker spider is doing good. He's hibernating right now. He doesn't move. He just lays still with his legs crunched up so he just looks like a little ball. He lives on my dresser by my lizards. I think those lizards would like to eat him. They better not, because he's my pet. They can eat bugs, but not bugs I catch for a pet.

I have a lot of bugs in my wagon. Sometimes I don't know what the bugs eat so I just give them grass, because that's the only thing I can think of to feed them. Ants are easy because they like everything, even crumbs. Dang, there's a dead cricket in my lizards' water.

[Dad's Note: I guess I'd better make sure that Sneaker Spider 'wakes up' next spring;)]

My Mind Tells Me Things

This one is for the Indians because soon it will be Indian Day.

I remember something that happened long long ago when I was a baby in momma's belly. It was night and dadda was sitting by a tree. Then momma walked by across the street from our old house and dadda saw her walk past. I didn't see that with my eyes because I was in momma's belly, but my mind tells me that that's how it was. My mind just saw it, then when I got a little older it told me.

I Love Experiments

This one is for McCall. I love you, McCall.

I love experiments! Experiments are little things that can do stuff, but sometimes they do stuff that's bad. Jumba made them. He is a alien evil genius. He knows how to make anything. Experiment 626 is named Stitch. I am experiment 164. I am the dinosaur boy. I love dinosaurs so much that they love me. That is my powers.

I like Lilo. She is a little Hawaiian girl. Why wouldn't I not like her? I like her because she's pretty.

Pleakley is a goofball with one eye. Mosquitos like to bite him. Nani is boring. She be's mean on every single show. She goes surfing. That's where you get on a board and go into the ocean. Then you stand up and go fast. If you fall off the board then you sink, because people don't have air bladders like fish do.

A Very Bad Dream

This one is for Uncle T.

I had a very bad dream last night. I dreamed that people were cracking dinosaur eggs. It was at my school at recess and people were going down a big slide and they would take the dinosaur eggs and punch them. I was trying to tell them to stop it but they were too fast.

I hate that dream. I don't ever want to dream that dream ever again and I hope Jesus will help me never to dream that again. You don't crack dinosaur eggs because there are babies in there. That makes Jesus very sad. How would those people like it if I came to their house and broke their toys?

But it wasn't real. Good thing. But I hope real people never do that. I don't want to come to somebody's house and break their toys, but I will if I have to.

When I Grow Up

This one is for Kelsey, Ryan's sister. When we go camping I snuggle her by the fire.

I love all the babies in the whole wide world. I love Ainsley and Coulter and Carter and Oaklie and baby dinosaurs. But dinosaur babies are not like people babies. Like you can't trim a baby dinosaur's toenails because nobody has clippers that could do it.

I don't want to grow up because when you grow up you don't play any more, you just go to work all day. When I grow up I will be a paleontologist that finds dinosaur bones. I will look somewhere in the mountains and in the desert and in the jungle. Maybe there's dinosaur bones under my house!

Grown-up dinosaurs hunted and got leaves for the baby dinosaurs. When the babies get older the grown-ups teach them how to hunt. Then when they're 5 years old they hunt for themselves. I don't hunt because I'm not a dinosaur. Momma and dadda just make my food. I will start making my own food when I am 43.

The Mighty Komodo Dragon

This one is for my church teacher. I can't remember her name.

Komodo dragon is biggest and strongest lizard. He is slow because his legs are out to the side of him and their bellies are on the floor, but he can still catch his prey. Dinosaurs are fast because their legs are right underneath them, not on the sides. I saw a baby komodo dragon at the zoo and I have a squishy toy komodo dragon. Komodo dragon has spit that has poison in it. If animals get bit by komodo dragon, they die and he eats them.

Bridger's Jungle Survival Tips

This one is for Jane. She is a good friend.

Lions are the king of the jungle but Dinosaurs are the king of the world. I love the jungle but you better be careful because there's a lot of wild animals there. I'm always careful when I'm hiking in the jungle. I'm not scared of the bugs and if I get scared I just climb and climb.

Dinosaurs lived long before people but something tells me there are still dinosaur eggs somewhere in the jungle- somewhere in a really deep spot where all the wild animals are, like monkeys and chameleons and spiders. You better be careful for those and you better be careful for ticks.

When a tick gets in you, you have to smoke it out of you. If you try to pick it out it's head will stay in you. Ticks don't breathe out their nose like we do- they breathe out their bodies. If I ever catch a tick I'll put it in a jar and put it by my sneaker spider.

Never Make a Dilophosaurus Mad

This one is for Tammy.

Don't ever make a dilophosaurus mad. Do you know why? Because it will scare you way to death. He has a fan around his neck that rattles and he opens his mouth and growls a big growl and splats mud on your face. When he's sleeping, never open his eyes. Never say mean things to him because he has a bad temper like Beast on Beauty and the Beast. That's why you never make a dilophosaurus mad.

Playing with Silas

This one is for my friend Silas.

I played at Silas' house today and they had a Reese's Pieces there. I made dinosaurs out of clay. There is a t-rex and a brachiosaurus that got killed by the t-rex. There is a spinosaurus and volcanoes. The lava is glue, but those volcanoes fell over. There is a worm that's my favorite bug and a stingray that is dadda's favorite. There is also some dinosaur eggs. I need to put these clay dinosaurs in a special place so Coulter won't get them.

Shayla's Kitchen

This one is for Shayla.

I like playing with Shayla. She has a cooking place in her house. It's a pretended cooking place. We have a pretended cooking place in our house too. She has a toaster and there is a button that makes it pop up. I wish I had a toaster like that. But we have a real toaster and I know how to make toast. In fact, I'm going to make toast right now.

The Dinosaur Boy Responds to Reader Comments

[Dad's Note: Bridger would like to introduce a new 'mailbag' feature on his blog, where he will take a few recent reader comments and respond to them.]

Bob said...

You and your cousin Kelsey both only like to look at green food, but not to eat.

BRIDGER RESPONDS: Green food is beautiful but I don't like to eat it. Do you know why? Because I never tried it. Does your girl baby like green food?

Grammy said...

Wow... Weston must have a turbo tummy to swallow a penny and not get sick. He might be like a Great White shark. I wonder if he ever ate a license plate when mama wasn't looking.

BRIDGER RESPONDS: Maybe Weston really is sick but he doesn't want to tell mom so he can start drinking Coke again. The only way we can tell is by an exalator. That's where you stand behind it and it shows your bones. Then maybe we can find momma's wedding ring too. I don't think he could eat a license plate because his mouth is not like a dinosaur mouth. Dinosaurs' mouths can open very wide.

Tiff said...

That musical thing with the bag of air I play are called
uilleann pipes (pronounced ill-uhn).

BRIDGER RESPONDS: Tiff- there's a lot of things I need to learn, like how to roller skate and play my ukulele and how to walk with my cane. And I want to learn how to play those airbladder pipes. But I need to get some. Maybe next time we go to Wal-Mart. Here's what else I was going to tell you- I have two snakes that I don't know what kind they are. One is yellow with red spots. The other one is black with white spots. Snakes can eat whole eggs. They open their mouth about a hundred years wide and eat those eggs.

Alison Krauss, Jack Johnson and My Ukulele

This one is for Alison Krauss.

I need to learn to play my ukulele like Alison Krauss and Jack Johnson. Maybe Tiff or my dadda can teach me. Tiff plays this musical thing that she blows on and it makes a little noise. It has a bag of air. Dadda plays the ukulele good. He plays Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. I want him to play a dinosaur song. When I learn how to play my ukulele then I can play dinosaur songs.

[Dad's Note: Actually Alison Krauss plays the fiddle, but close enough.]

Desert Bones

This one is for Dinoco. He is my favorite car on Cars.

This is a story about finding dinosaur bones in the desert. A little boy and his dadda were camping in the desert and they found a spot to dig. They digged and digged and the hole got way deep. They found a bone. It was a styrachosaurus femur. Then they found more and more bones.

When it got dark they made a fire and it looked like there was dinosaurs dancing in the fire. There wasn't anybody else there but them. They roasted marshmallows and watched the stars and went to sleep.

Snakes 101

This one is for Madison. Some people call her Maddie but her name is really Madison.

I'm playing snakes right now. I have a rattle snake, a generic snake, and a asp. Rattle snakes live in North America. Asps live in Africa. Generic snakes live everywhere. Generic snakes are when workers who make toys try to make snakes but they don't know anything about snakes so they make generic snakes.

Snakes can eat stuff that's bigger than big because their mouth opens really wide. That's like a t-rex- only his mouth is wider and it is more powerful. Snakes are a lot like dinosaurs- actually they pretty much are dinosaurs, because they are reptiles too.

Did you know that snakes are very powerful? If you get bit by a generic snake nothing will happen. If you get bit by a rattle snake it hurts you but you won't die. When you get bit by a asp, you'll die. A boa constrictor doesn't have poison but he just squeezes you to death. Then he eats you.

Weston Swallowed a Penny

This one is for Weston because he swallowed a penny.

Weston swallowed a penny today. When you swallow something it goes into your tummy. That penny is still in his tummy. So is momma's wedding ring. He swallowed the ring a long time ago and it never came out. He almost swallowed my big dinosaur money too. Why does Weston do this?

Heavenly Father- please help Weston. He swallowed a penny and a wedding ring. Please make him better and don't let him swallow anything else, please.

[Dad's Note: Weston has a history of swallowing things- no matter how much we 'kid-proof' our house. The penny seems to have made its way down his gullet and safely into his stomach. Now we wait...and search...]

He's Got The Whole World In His Hands

This one is for Stein the dolphin who has no teeth.

I love dinosaurs a very lot but today I love a lot of things- everything in the world. Every single planet in the whole wide space and every single star- even the one Jesus lives in. I even like Lightning McQueen. Even green food, but not to eat. Just to look at. But I don't like bad guys. Everything is good in the world except bad guys.

Don't Mess With Tescas

Grammy Darla in Tescas is funny. She always tells me funny things when she writes me letters. Here is a funny dinosaur joke for her:

What do you call a giant meat-eating dinosaur that wears a cowboy hat and boots? At Tyrannosaurus Tex!

That's a good one for her because she lives in Tescas. Tescas is a lot far from here. It takes 30 days to get there. Granny from Tescas is in Tescas. Kelsi from Tescas used to live in Tescas but now she lives in Idaho. Nick used to live in Tescas but now he is on a mission in Kentucky. Old Granny in the thing with wheels used to live in Tescas but now she lives with Jesus.

[Dad's Note: It's probably obvious, but 'Tescas' = Texas.]

The Dinosaur Boy Celebrates His 164th Post

[Dad's Note: Bridger's blog has reached a landmark of sorts. This is his 164th post. 164 was Bridger's first favorite number and for a while he associated it with everything. He has mentioned it often in his posts. Some examples:

7/5/06: "I am experiment 164. "
7/6/06: "That book is 164 special to me"
7/10/06: "When I am 8 I will get the priesthood power. It is 164 powerful!"
7/15/06: "I will stay awake 164 so I'll be awake when he gets home."
7/15/06: "There are 164 dinosaurs that lived."
7/31/06: "I just bought a deinonychus raptor for 25 cents! It's legs are 164 long!"
8/8/06: "Linzie broke through me and Connor and it hurt 164 bad."
8/27/06: "That place was 164 old, but not older than the dinosaurs."
10/23/06: "a pleiosaurus hunter who could fight hard and weighs 164 tons."]

I have 164 blogs! That's a lot. Right now I'm drawing a big huge haunted house with a guy that has no head and a big fat pumpkin. It's a spooky house, but not spooky to me. I'm making this for decorations for when it's Halloween again, so I'll be all set. This house has lizards in it and carnotaurs and snakes. Lizards are cool because they are reptiles like dinosaurs. Also it has experiments.

Hot Dogs and Bacon: Reflections on the First Thanksgiving

This one is for aunt Jeri. She is getting a big operation today.

This is a picture of me and a edmontosaurus. Halloween is over and now Easter is next. Actually no- Thanksgiving. That's when you dress up like an Indian because the Indians and those other guys ate a big feast. And they called it Thanksgiving. They ate hot dogs, turkey, ham, meat, bacon, and eggs.