My zoo

Today, I built a zoo. We had an aviary, a savannah, a jungle, a river, an ocean, a lake, and a pond. We even had a farm and a desert. Kind of like dessert as you say.
Look at the jungle! There is a leopard, a jagular. You know what jagulars do? Um, they always call, "Hellooooo" and when you look up, they drop on you. And we also had an orangutan, a monkey, a toucan and a gorilla.
Here is the pond. Look how beautiful it is! And all those animals. I like animals.
And here we have the lake. All these animals live here. Have you ever heard of an "aminal"? That is many kinds of bugs. That's what my friend Stephen told me.

I'm making a snowman!

I'm making a snowman. And I'm making a snowman, too! And Mama's making a snowman! We were using materials and white puffs and crayons and a glue stick and a little bit of glue and some paper.
Dorian! Drawing a snowman!
Look! A snowball rolled in under the door. We even have a sound wave and something saying "Thump-Thump!" We put the saved artwork and done artwork on the wall.

The three things about my brother

1. Dorian likes to wrestle around with me. I like that, too.
2. Me and Dorian like to pretend to be robots and Blue and Magenta. Magenta and Blue are from Blue's Clues. The robots we pretend to be are from Animusic. We mostly like to be basses.
3. Dorian always wants to watch Animusic 2. I don't really mind if I watch it, too. It's also one of my favorite movies.

I love my little brother.

Minnie and Moo-- An I Can Read Book

I got Minnie and Moo from the Brooks Memorial Library. It's about two cows who were named Minnie and Moo and designed themselves as cupids. Cupids are persons who shoot arrows and if the arrow sticks somewhere it means there is love from it. They shot their arrows at wood stuff and once on a nose with love poems. On the front of the arrows were suction cups so it wouldn't hurt. Nobody fell in love, though. I would like to read more Minnie and Moo books.

Super Why and Super Why Tiger

Super Why with Super Readers is a great show to watch. It's all about cases and problems and they are solved by super letters and more. You can even go on the website. I was pretending to be Super Why. His Super Readers' names are: AlphaPig, WonderRed (for Red Riding Hood) and Princess Presto. We went through an obstacle course.

Super Why. I'm Super Why?

I can play "Pictures at an Exhibition!"

I learned how to play this by my dad. He said, "G-F-A sharp-C-F-D-C-F-D-A sharp-C-G-F." And for the last part, he told me, "C-D-E (in slow motion and then a little faster) C-E-D-G." I wanted to learn how to play this because I wanted to play the whole "Cathedral Pictures" from Animusic 2. But I just know the end and the beginning. Please watch this movie now! "Cathedral Pictures" sounds just like "Pictures at an Exhibition."

Explosions

Today, Sebastian and I were talking about who Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was and what happened to him. This prompted Sebastian to go and write a sign to post. It reads [sic]:

Do not shoot people. It's against the rule. It's dangerous. It's hurtable. My momma doesen't like guns. I don't like shooting. My dad does not ever say things. & Neither does Dorian, --my little brother.
----Sebastian, Paquette

I'm a bass from Pogo Sticks

As soon as you watch this movie, you'll see the bass you're looking for. That's me!

I want a chocolate cake!

It's Oscar, Zoe, Elmo and the sun. There's parts of Elmo. Dirt. I'm doing a puzzle. Do you like puzzles? Yeah. I like to have a shirt like this. That shirt is my kind. This is stripe. But it is for Lola.

I made some paper!

I'm putting paper in a cup. I have to do it so it can fill up. When it fills up, we put it in the blender. We have nothing to do with that Stratocaster Fender.
Look at all that mush and bloosh. I added some blue to make it colored. It was already in the box so I didn't need to get some. I had it from the box of scientists. I got it for Christmas.

This is the mush. It was called "pulp." We made it with paper, and it cut it all up into mush in the blender. We also used a cup of water-- that helped.

Now, this time, we're flattening it on the cup with a screen on it. We squished it and it seemed to put water right into the cup from the pulp.
Now, we put them on a screen with a towel beneath it to dry. We made 5 of them.
Here I made a little book. It's my book about Animusic. I called it and wrote on the cover, "My Little Book of Animusic."

It felt good when I touched the pulp. The paper felt good, too, itself. The recycled paper is hard, rough, and tough. It was good writing on it, only I complained a little bit. It was a little too hard for writing. It was a little harder to write on because it was harder than regular paper. And it's not as smooth. I'd like to make paper again.

Look at the robots we made!

This may look like a new friend to you, but it's actually Lydia. She looks like a new friend because she has darker hair looking like. She was making a tuba. A robot tuba.
Look at Dorian's robot. It's a drum and a cymbal.
I made a banjo. I got the idea for it because Mama said I could make an electric banjo. It was from Animusic.
There are all the robots! (Left to right: The banjo, Mama's, the drum and cymbal by Dorian, Christine's, and the tuba) There are pan pipes on the tuba and a little banjo part. I liked the robot making.

Caterpillars!

Googly eyes! I made andatanda. Antennas, you mean? Antennas.

Our project was making caterpillars out of egg cartons, paints, googly eyes and even pipe cleaners for antennae. Mama's is on the left, mine is in the middle, and Dorian's is on the right.

Yellow, blue, red, yellow, blue, red.

Green! I love green so muchy muchy duchy, too. My caterpillar's name is Jeremy. And mine is Jermeny, Daddy I mean.

Rock Band Rock Band!

It's Daddy playing a guitar. And Rob playing a guitar. And Dorian playing the drums. And I am playing the guitar. We played Rock Band at Karen's house. Her house is down the road, right next to Walker Farm. We played and we played very late. And in the middle of our playing we had our pizza party. And carrots and cookies. Karen's playing the guitar. Karen! Playing the guitar! We managed to play a song called "Wanted Dead or Alive" with Dustin even though he wasn't there. But I'll tell you how it happened. Well, that very evening we had our TV plugged into the computer, the computer plugged into Dust, and the same thing happened at his house. He is in San Francisco right now.

Look... What a pretty Lydia.

I like the way Lydia looks. She's like my girl.

Dorian and Bastian and Lydia. I'm doing the necklace, tying up and see them. Time for lunch. Animusic 2.
I'm dressed up as a fairy. The orange part was my cape.
I get the bippip. Pip pip.

Photo shoot

We had the opportunity yesterday to model in a photo shoot for a local artist/illustrator who has been commissioned to paint a picture that will become a jigsaw puzzle. It will be a Victorian street scene at Christmas time.

I have this on. I have my buttons on. Oh yes, I do. I am Dorian.
Oh no, look at Bastian-- he took his hat off.
Tim and Dorian's take Tim's hat off. Look at Tim!

Sebastian is declining to participate today. He and Dorian each posed on Tim's shoulders. Sebastian also posed peeking out from behind John's legs. And Sebastian and I were carolers in another scene. It will be interesting to see the finished product.

Silence of a dream of candy, Animusic and other good things

We were going to go to the Retreat Meadows and walk around on the ice, but there was a big, big crack in the ice. So, we went to Living Memorial instead. Dorian's going down the steps.
It's me and Lydia. But I don't know what's making it look so dark about the trees. We're walking. I'm Pooh and she's Piglet.
I'm climbing. She's following me.
I really like Lydia. I can't understand these pictures, but it was a fun time there. Once I asked her to marry me, but she didn't want to. This time I'll ask my best friend, Margaret.

An interview with Joy Volume

What are your plans for the new year?
Going to Riley's house, Dan Zanes Consert. Yay!
You are going to a Dan Zanes show? When is that?
Febuary 29th.
What would you like to learn about?
The Human Body!!!!!!
What kind of house do you want to move to?
Color:Red. Size:Almost as big as Riley's... ...What!!??
What job would you like to do when you grow up?
A Carpenter.

Look at us robops!

Dorian and Sebastian are being the robops. Robops. Xylophone and guitar.

Actually, that's the bass. The robop bass. I love Animusic!

Hee hee hee!

Speaking of Animusic, I like the music and it's also because of the look of it. Dorian wants to watch it every day. I'm wearing a bow tie. I don't know why, I just am.
Hee hee hee! Look at Dorian! He's bootiful! I did it.
Look, Dorian's hands are near his eye. That means his hands have eye. Look at his necklace, he's just puttin' it around his face.

Riiiiiilllleeeeeeeey!!!! I want you!

Look at me and Dorian and Riley! We're making our silliest face. Look at Dorian! We're all sitting on the plasmacar. Riley was playing. I was playing. Dorian was playing. David was playing. David is Riley's brother. I had a good time.