Happy Thanksgiving!

Birthday fun

[On November 7, for the boys' birthday present, we took them to the Montshire Museum for some science fun.]

We were on a balcony at the top picture. We haven't never been to the Montshire Museum and that was the first time we went there. We could see the park way down below. It was cool! I couldn't wait to go there after the fun inside.

This is the fog room. I got to stick my head down into a big pit of the fog. It felt a bit warm, but damp. There was also a yellow tube I could hold up and the fog would all spray out. It looked cool!

We were trying to make this dinosaur. We got to learn about paleontologists at this part. We like going on big adventures. This was a big, long day to go here at the Montshire Museum. We had fun. It was hard trying to make the dinosaur, but I finally got to finish it. It's kind of like a one-legged guy who's looking backwards while it's hopping.


[On November 14, we had a birthday party for the boys.]

Cake! Yummy old frosty candy old cake! Yummy yummy licorice, yummy yummy starbursts, yummy yummy m&ms. Yummy yummy cake! After a few days, I got to have some of the cake with ice cream for dessert. It's delicious!

Cake time is now! Let's have some cake! If you look at the top of the picture, you might think that we're sitting around a campfire. But if you think that, that's the wrong answer. It's really the candle flames on the cake.
Lydia! I love Lydia! We were playing "Pin the Machinery and Buttons on the Robot". I was 7 and I got one of the antennae on correctly with a blindfold, but I was surprised when I saw 8 year old Archer suddenly just stick the wire with the plug on backwards. It looked really silly. Another silly part of the game was when Dorian's friend Skyler stuck a button on upside down.

This is Cozmo and us. Cozmo is a robot. Dad and Sebastian made it. Sebastian made the buttons and Cozmo and screen and stuff like that. Dad made the feet and the body and arms and head-- like, that stuff. Cozmo is the completed robot that we made. If you look on the upper part of his body, you might see his name on the nameplate.

Field trip

I went to a field trip. I went to Stonewall Farm. We went to see this thing called the Great Pumpkin. The Great Pumpkin was sleeping when we got there. There were these rug seats you got to sit on. We yelled, "Wake up, Great Pumpkin!" The Great Pumpkin told us a story. When she was done, we got to pollinate the flowers-- the pumpkin flowers.

I'm pollinating a flower in this picture. They are yellow.
We got these pumpkins. We're gonna make a sweet snack with our pumpkins. At snack, we had apple cider and pumpkin cookies. I had fun eating the snack.

This picture we got to pick two apples and put them into this apple cider press. It didn't work out so fine, but there was this other thing. You had to push down this black thing and it would make the apple cider. It was attached.

The end. That's it.

Halloween

I was a mad scientist. I got a test tube that looked like it was glowing. And I got the idea because I liked stuff like mad scientists and also, I'm going to be a mad scientist when I grow up so that was the whole point of it. And then Dad put some big black splotches of face paint and bits of red so it looked like something exploded in front of me.
I was a skeleton. I got this whole idea. There was some face paint to make a whole skeleton. There's no red on a skeleton. Skeletons do not have red blood. Sometimes they do. Well, I like Trick or Treating. I got some Starbursts and a brown bag of m&ms. I like Trick or Treating on Halloween.
We had a whole crowd of people Trick or Treating with us. They were Archer and his family, Quinn and Amelia, and their parents, and Lucy's friend Lily and her mother the second grade teacher at my school, Pam Maile. Lucy had a different color of ours: pink.

We made a candy town! This is the picture of Sebastian's part. He made a passage way. I didn't really make a passage way but I made a lot of buildings. We had fun making our town out of candy.

Getting ready for Halloween

I was carving my pumpkin in the dining room. It was very great and then mom did it again. My whole family is me, Dorian, Allison, Sebastian and Jeremy. Sebastian made a pumpkin, too. Sebastian's one was smaller than mine. I like making pumpkins! Very great.

My pumpkin is named "Guy Smiley." Tonight, Trick or Treat!

I liked carving my pumpkin. I liked it because Dad was helping me out and I got to learn a lot of cool stuff about how to carve your pumpkin. For example, he taught me how to saw with the kiddie knife.

My pumpkin is named "Sicko" 'cause he's always sick. Because everywhere he goes he suddenly gets ill from a bunch of diseases. I was gonna add a bunch of flesh coming out of its mouth so it would look like it was puking. I'm gonna do that to make it really look sick right before we go Trick or Treating.

Happy Halloween!

Dancing, and how to make racing snails in a few small and easy steps

First, get an about 40cm wooden board (or 16 inches if you like to measure it differently). Then, color it green with oil pastels.

Then get all the parts you see on this picture (sorry, we forgot to put a spool of wire in this photo, but if you don't have any you can get some).

Then, you remember those steel cable straps from the last picture, don't you? Well, those are for the snail bodies. But we'll get back to that later. Now, you have to put one of those straps onto a part of the board-- any part you like. Also, you can put them in any order. Now, get 3 lock nuts and punch holes in some safety tape and stick them onto the lock nuts. (Two on each one.) And put dots on them to make eyes. Then screw a metal washer onto each of the lock nuts but don't start screwing until you have put on a wing nut on top of it to make antennae. After that the final thing in this step is to twist in with a wrench a screw eyelet on the opposite side of the cable strap.

Next, put a small silver bell inside the small snail. But you can put in a gold one if it fits. Tie it on with wire. Then, put some nail polish over the knot. For the bigger ones, color some metal washers on one of them and use at least three. Then, do the same thing with the wire and nail polish. Finally, find a small aluminum disc and do the exact same thing once again with the wire and nail polish. The bell will ring when the wind comes. Also when the wind comes, the aluminum disc will spin and the washers will clang together.

The snails are gonna be really cool as soon as you make them. Making it is fun! And it's also fun to look at them and enjoy it. Now here's a cool movie about Dorian dancing:



I love doing dancing movies! They're really good. Mom makes movies of me doing the dance moves on the camera. I saw it. It was a good dance move. It's really good doing dance moves on my movies. It's a good dance move and it makes you good exercise. It's great when you really have energy-- a lot of energy-- you're really good to make you play outside for a little time. It makes me good and feel cozy. I like it!

My field trip

One day, I went to a field trip at Green Mountain Orchard and we got to have a hay ride.

It was fun! The hay ride went all around the farm. Yes, it did! It was a fun ride. I got to sit next to Jack. After the hay ride, we got to have snack. It was apple cider to drink and cider doughnuts. They were really good. Well, I didn't want to really drink the cider, so Emmett's mom threw it in the grass. Then it was great.
I love picking apples. We picked some on the field trip, you know. I liked picking the apples for the apple pie.

It was great. Yummy yum yum yum. I love apples!