Flip, Flap and Fly

This one was going to be for West, but he's not minding momma right now.

Did you know that a brand new Land Before Time show came out yesterday? It did. It's called the Great Day of the Flyers. Silas came to play today, but our house wasn't all the way clean. We watched that show. That show has my favorite song on there called "Flip, Flap and Fly." When they sing that song they meet Mo again. He's that baby ichthyosaur.

In that Land Before Time show the kid dinosaurs got in trouble because the archaeopteryx got on the spinosaurus' back and that made the spinosaurus mad. Then they went into the Mysterious Beyond. Of course they went to the Mysterious Beyond. That's what they always do. The Mysterious Beyond is scary because of all the meateaters there, but they go there there anyway because there's stuff they need to do, like find shiny rocks or a night flower to make Littlefoot's grandpa better.

Cera is a little bit grumpy, but not as grumpy as she is in the other shows. Mr. Three-Horn is grumpy in this one too. Tria keeps telling him to move and he falls off a cliff! That's a great part.

Monday Mailbag on Tuesday: Angel Star Crystal

Responding to Ella Smella Cinderella, Steph said...
Angel Marven, Hmmm. That is quite an interesting name. I think I like Ella better. Whatever you name her, we will love her.

BRIDGER RESPONDS: Actually Stephy, now I changed what I want to name her. Now we will name her Angel Star Crystal. That's the best name ever, but I'm sad because people don't like my names. I think Angel Star Crystal is really beautiful.

Responding to Fire in the Hole, Tiff said...
Bridger, that sounds like a very cold game. Why do you play it if you don't think it's very fun? :)

BRIDGER RESPONDS: Because McCall makes me play it, Tiff. she thinks she's in charge of me.

Deb Goodrich of the Mason-Dixon Wild West blog posts...
My Goodness! The competition gets younger and younger! Dinosaur Boy, the photo below is for you.

BRIDGER RESPONDS: Oh that is so cool! I think those cowboys are doctors and they came to help that poor triceratops.

Fire in the Hole!

[Dad's Note: Tune in tomorrow for our regularly scheduled edition of Monday Mailbag.]

This one is for me. Just teasing! This one is really for Tiff.

Me and McCall play this game where you put some water on the sidewalk and then you close your eyes and walk. If you step in the water you have to yell "fire in the hole!" Then you have to take off your shoes and gloves and make handprints and footprints in the snow. It's really not a very fun game.

Ella Smella Cinderella

[Dad's Note: One type of classic Bridger post is the How-Did-He-Get-There-From-Here post, where he starts one topic and ends up on an entirely different one. Enjoy.]

I used to want to name our new baby Ella, but now I changed my mind. Now I want to name her Angel. Angel Marven. That's a great name. It is a beautiful name, don't you think?

Tammy doesn't want us to name our baby Angel. She doesn't think that's a good name. She would like to name the baby Seven. What kind of a name is Seven? She said maybe we could call her Ella Smella Cinderella Seven. I told her that's not a real name.

We could call her just Cinderella, but I already know somebody named that. She is a beautiful princess that lives at Disney World. A princess is a girl who marries a prince. Like Cinderella cleaned stuff for a living. Then she went to the palace and married the prince. Now she's a princess.

Homemade Orange Juice- Hold the Pope

This one is for Whitty because she's playing with me.

I love orange juice, but only when it's still in the orange. I don't like to drink it in a cup because it feels like there is things floating around in it. Dadda says it's little pieces of orange called pope, so that means pope is just orange guts! Why do they make orange juice with pope?

My favorite cereal is Fruity Dino Bites. But I don't have any of those right now. Right now I'm eating Mickey Mouse Clubhouse cereal. I tried a cup of orange juice but I forgot about the pope and it tasted gross to me.

Me and Simmy tried to make orange juice at Patty's funyeral. We got cups and we started to squeeze the oranges into the cups but dadda said "You're not making orange juice at a funyeral."

A Little Tease

This one is for bompa. He's in the hostipal right now.

I don't have much to say tonight, but here is a tease:

Did you know I have a two-headed turtle for a pet? Hah- just teasing!

Skull Valley Adventure

This one is for dadda.

We went to Skull Valley on an adventure day after the other day. We hiked sooo high up. Here is some pictures of our adventure. It's called Skull Valley because when the cowboys came here they found styrachosaurus skulls. We climbed up that rock just like Bear Grylls.

You can see our car way down there. That's how high we were.

My Tough Face is Better Than Dadda's Tough Face

I'm a tough kid, so sometimes I make my tough face. My tough face is better than dadda's tough face. Here is my tough face and dadda's tough face and you see what you think.

Monday Mailbag: McDonalds, Wal-Mart, and a Two-Headed Turtle

Tiff said...
I hate commercials, too. The ones I hate the most are the ones for Albertsons with Patricia Heaton, and all of the Low Book Sales and Welch's Grape Juice commercials. Do you think you could bust those commercials right out of the TV?

BRIDGER RESPONDS: I would love to bust those commercials right out of the TV but then I would bust the TV. TV's are expensive and I would have to go Wal-Mart to buy another one. Do you know what I was thinking? McDonalds is like Wal-Mart. It never ever closes and that's why I like it so much. Tiff, did you know there are sometimes McDonalds's in Wal-Mart? How cool is that?

Katie said...
I wanted to tell you about a turtle. It is a two headed red eared slider turtle. There is only one in the whole big world. You can have your dada help you find it on the computer. There is a video that you can watch with David Letterman and Jack Hanna. When I saw this I thought of you. I hope you like this turtle. I love your blog and you.

BRIDGER RESPONDS: I love you too, Katie. We looked up that video and here it is!



I do love that two-headed turtle! I bet if turtles could talk, one head on that turtle would talk to the other one and they would be friends. If I had to have another head on my body I would choose Silas' head, because we're best of friends.

Expedition: Borneo

[Dad's Note: Some of my favorite posts are when Bridger "liveblogs" an event such as a TV show, giving me a running commentary with entertaining side notes. Bridger dictated the following to me over the phone while I was at work tonight.]

We watched 5 shows of Man vs. Wild today. How cool is that? Now there is this show we are watching called Exdepition Borneo. I don't know what Borneo means. That's just what it's called. Borneo is part of Asia. It's about scientists that go to Borneo on an adventure. One scientist is looking for insects and the other ones are looking for other kinds of animals. One scientist was looking for scorpions and he found a really dangerous one. Another one found a centipede. A big centipede would be called a millipede. A millipede is ten pounds.

The show doesn't say how those scientists got to Borneo. The channel didn't show that. They are just there when the show starts. Now there's commercials. It's Sprint. Oh great, another Sprint commercial. It looks like Sprint is a phone where you can insert any song you like. Hah! A dinosaur just ran across the screen!

Show's back on now. They left their camp and they're driving in their car. I'm trying to look what things they have in their camp but it doesn't show their camp too much. Look, now it's showing all these village kids in the camp. I think those kids are watching the camp while the scientists are gone. I hope this show comes on again so I can watch it again with dadda.

My Bad Mind

This one is for my new cousin A.J.

Sometimes I get scared in the dark but I can't control it because it's my bad mind that gets scared. Sometimes I have my bad mind more than I have my good mind. I know when it's my bad mind because that's when I forget things or don't do stuff right.

My bad mind sometimes makes me not see so good. Like when I was at school I thought I got everything out of my cubby but I didn't really. I wish I could always have my good mind so I would remember everything and be good all the time. When my good mind fights with my bad mind, I hope my good mind wins.

[Dad's Note: I can only guess he's talking about his sometimes flaky/complacent self vs. his on-top-of-it self. It's a constant internal struggle most of us have. I've just never seen it in a 5 year old.]

It's Tough to Find Good Valentines These Days

This one is for Gibran.

I'm watching Iron Chef America right now and there is a girl fighting a man on it. I hope the girl wins because she's cooking sea creatures and I love sea creatures. But why does she need to cook the sea creatures? Doesn't she know that makes them die?

It's party night and do you know what I'm thinking? I'm thinking it's tough to find good valentines these days. They're either girly or just super heroes. I'm lucky because I found some Dino Thunder valentines. They weren't at a regular store like Wal-Mart. Dino Thunder is Power Rangers, but I'm not going to call Power Rangers super heroes. They aren't regular super heroes because their power is robot dinosaurs.

Commercials, Charging, and Buffering

This one is for Sami. I need to see her soon.

I hate commercials, buffering, and charging 'puters. My 'puter is the bestest toy I ever had but I hate when I have to charge it. I hate commercials, except ones like Dino Thunder, robo reptile, Man vs. Wild, Crocodile Hunter commercials, commercials about cooking shows. But I hate super hero commercials, store commercials, clothes commercials, the one with the dumb guy that says "One call, that's all." Actually I kind of like that one a little.

Buffering is when you are watching a movie on the 'puter, like the robo reptile commercial, and it has to stop and you wait for it. It's not fun at all because you watch the commercial and it gets to the best part and then it stops! I'm going to bust that buffering right out of that 'puter.

Wednesdays with West: Happy Balance Times Day!

This one is for Bridger.

I want to write about somebody that gives balance times to sombody and they're Cars balance times. Giving balance times on Balance Times Day means you love them. I have nothing else to say about Balance Times Day.

Why I Write My Blog

Do you know why I write on my blog? Because there is some people that don't think dinosaurs are real creatures. Like there was this kid in Dinoland that told me he didn't believe in dinosaurs. But I know dinosaurs are real because we have fossils and skeletons. I told that kid I know dinosaurs are real and he believed me. Now he's my friend. He kind of looks like Braden in my church class.

There's also a lot of people that think you don't need to be nice to animals. We should be nice to them because Jesus made them too. Animals are beautiful and wonderful, so I need to write about animals so people will love them too.

Monday Mailbag: Two Babies in One Belly

Ammon said...
I heard you guys had lots of fun Sat. night. I wish I could have been there to play, too. Someday you'll have to come down here and see the dinosaur track museum and we can play in my backyard and catch lizards.

BRIDGER RESPONDS: Yeah, why did you not come? I can't wait to come catch lizards at your house. I need another lizard because one of my lizards died. Maybe when your boy babies come out of your momma's belly. How can you have two babies in your belly at the same time? That's bizarre!

I was thinking you should name your other boy baby Carlos, but then I thought maybe it would be good to name one Bear Grylls and one Nigel Marven. Those are some great names. Here is a picture of that girl who'se your momma that has those two babies in her belly.

[Dad's Note: Bridger recently discovered the word 'bizarre.' Now everything is just bizarre.]

Bridger and McCall: True Friends Again

Do you know what is so fun? That me and McCall are friends again. She's kind of pretty. She stopped yelling at me whenever I play with her, but she still tries to be in charge of me. She still tries to choose which friends I can play with. Like one time we were at centers and I was trying to sit by Silas but she wouldn't let me. She wanted me to sit by her. Then she just hugs me and kisses me. Dad- don't put that in my blog. Just say she hugs me.

Boys don't really hug their friends that are boys but I guess it would be ok. Boys can hug their friends that are girls. But I'd rather hug a dinosaur.

Plumb Tuckered

Oh I am so tired. I stayed up way, way late playing with my friends. They are so fun. Cayson was there and Kinley and I took very good care of her. It was with these guys that is very good friends with dadda. He says they are special people to him. We played and played and now I'm very tired. I want to put up a picture of a mako shark.

Therizinosaurus- a Fierce Herbivore

This one is for momma.

Today I was thinking that therizinosaurus was a carnivore because of his huge claws. But then I realized that therizinosaurus is actually a herbivore. I know that because it says that in my book. Herbivore means plant-eater. But do you know what? He was a herbivore that could scare away a large carnivore. He's called "The Great Claw."

Reflections on Tornadoes and Asteroids

This one is for Stitch.

Right after we left from Florida These things called tornadoes came through Florida and killed some people. 16 people- actually 19. A tornado is a strong wind that turns in a circle and makes the earth shake. If it bounces on something it breaks it. The tornadoes came in the middle of the night and broke houses and even churches. Can you believe that? So we're going to have to fix a lot of stuff down there. It's lucky that I live in the mountains. That way tornadoes have a hard time coming here.

Things like that are scary. Like the giant asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. It came through the clouds and landed in Mexico. First the plants died, then the plant eaters. Then the meat eaters died because there was nothing to eat. Those dinosaurs must have been very scared when that happened.

Wednesdays with West: Meeting the Real Lightning McQueen

This one is for Goofy. He's my favorite.

I saw Lightning McQueen at Disney World. It was the real Lightning McQueen for real. He drived up and parked and we got to touch him. I hugged him and gave him loves. He didn't talk- he just played music. I love Lightning McQueen.

Digging in the Boneyard

This one is for Weston. I love West. He is a really good brother.

At Dinoland they have a digging place where you can dig dinosaurs. I digged and digged and I found a huge gigantic mammoth. Mammoths are kind of like dinosaurs but they're not dinosaurs. They are mammals. Same with the saber-tooth tiger that is also called a smilodon. That's his scientific name. They were the dinosaurs' friends. The mammoth has tusks and smilodon has tusks that look like tusks but they're really teeth. Hmm... let me just find a picture of those two mammals. Ok. Yep, that looks just like the one I dug up in the boneyard.

Monday Mailbag: Eating Snakes and Working with Mickey

Tiff said...
Bridger, I'm glad you had a good time on your trip but I'm also glad that you're back. Sounds like you had a good time in the perilous jungles of Florida!

BRIDGER RESPONDS: Tiff, those jungles totally dangerous. That's why I have my alligator claw I got there. That way I can use it to scratch things if they try to get me.

Dawnie said...
It sounds like you had a very fun trip. I've been excited to read your blog again! Guess what - Eric and I finally saw Man vs. Wild. I've been curious about it since you talked about Bear and his adventures and we finally got to watch it. We thought it was pretty cool, except when Bear ate a snake. Yuck!

BRIDGER RESPONDS: I thought it was cool when Bear ate that snake! He did it to survive. If he didn't eat it he would die. If it was me I would try to eat a fish instead. And I would cook it. I could get some water from some tentacles, but I would have dadda squeeze the water out of them for me.

If I had to choose to eat a snake or a black-eyed pea, I'd choose the black-eyed pea. That's because a snake would have more germs than a black-eyed pea. Snakes live on the ground and there's lots of germs on the ground. Black-eyed peas grow on black-eyed pea trees.

Emily said...
Hey Bridger, my name is Emily and I work at Animal Kingdom at Disney World. Your dad told me about your blog and I checked it after work the day you were here. I think I know what it is you found in the jungle, but I won't tell anybody so it can still be a surprise.

p.s. I don't like those smart toilets either!

BRIDGER RESPONDS: I love Animal Kingdom! Especially I love Dino Land. My favorite ride is Dinosaur. We went on that ride again and again and again. Hey, if you work at Disney Word that means you work with Mickey Mouse and Stitch. Next time you see them can you tell them I love them?

Smart Toilets at Disney World

This one is for Mickey Mouse. This is a picture of me and Mickey when I went to Disney World. Mickey actually lives in Disneyland but he works at Disney World.

I really don't like the toilets at Disney World. They're called smart toilets. I think they're supposed to flush when you get off them, but if you don't get done in time they just flush when you're still on them. Or if you are standing by one of those toilets it will just flush by itself. I think those smart toilets aren't so smart.

Beware the Komodo Dragon

This one is for Nigel Marven.

When we was in the jungle we saw a real komodo dragon. Not a fake one- a real live one. We couldn't get too close because there was a wall, but I just told dadda I hope that komodo dragon doesn't sneeze because komodo dragons have poison spit. Komodo dragon is slow because his legs are on his sides and not under him like a dinosaur, but he can still get his prey. He just bites an animal and it dies because of his poison spit. Then he rips it to shreds. This is a picture of that komodo dragon and the other one is a picture of a komodo dragon skull.

Back From the Jungle!

This one is for Tammy.

Hello everybody! I'm sorry I been gone so long. I was in Florida hunting for snakes and reptiles and dinosaur treasure. We also went to Disney World. I couldn't do my blog because there's no way to do it in the jungle. Also, when you're in the jungle you really can't be playing on a 'puter. Cause that means you take your eyes off the trail and something might bite you like a cottonmouth.

We hiked a long way in the jungle to see if we could find some snakes. We walked 12 miles every day. I know that because dadda has a thing on his belt that tells you those type of things. Dadda found some armadillos. I found some driver ants in a pile of dirt that I totally stepped in.

A lot of people think snakes are evil but they're really not. They don't bite people because they're mean. They only bite people if they're scared the people will hurt them. They have to have their fangs to kill their prey. Snakes are actually good because they kill bad animals like mouses and rats. People shouldn't be scared of snakes but I am actually kind of scared of them.

When we was in the jungle, there's something I found that's really cool, but I can't tell you about it because it's a surprise. I will let everybody guess what it is. Then, if nobody guesses right then I'll tell you!

[Dad's Note: I'm glad the little trip to Disney World at least got a mention- if even as a side note:)]