Jim is coming over today

My uncle Jim came over the other day. The weekend was fun, spending a time with him. Jim came over on Saturday. We went to different places. They were cool. There were cars at one store. Sometimes I see signs that say "One Way."

First stop: Grafton Village Cheese Factory

I'm hiding in this picture, but Sebastian is always in the way for me. I was rolling down the dusty and grassy hill. And one time I ran down so fast I couldn't stop myself from running 'til I got to this dried up water pipe. I'm making muscles.
I am jumping off a rock. I really love jumping off a rock when I'm Dorian. Dorian, the greatest boy in the world!

Next stop: Harlow's Sugar House

First, we went into the store and we met this woman and she told us we had to wait a second until we could see the sap in the machines, so we decided to go over to the maple trees and look at the sap. We tasted it. Did you know that 40 gallons of sap is just one gallon of maple syrup?! The sap tasted like water with one little piece of sugar in it.

I'm in the trees with Sebastian. Bye-bye, I'm leaving this tree by the sidewalk with the bee. I'm hiding. Can you find me?
We're in the evaporation room. First, we followed this truck full of sap over to this big tank. Then, we followed this pipe that we saw all the way into the evaporation room. First, the evaporator was just getting ready. It was warming up. Then, a few minutes later, the steam billowed everywhere! It looked like a total explosion had went off and the smoke couldn't stop going away. It was crazy! And then we had some maple syrup and then we ate some sugar on snow and some apple fritters. The fritters were delicious! They were very delicious! I hope you go there and taste them someday. I love the sugar on snow and the apple fritters.

Third stop: Dwight Miller Orchards

I'm throwing rocks in this humongous puddle.

Now we're racing races. When I was running with Daddy, he jumped over my head and that was not fair. Not only that but I also got hurt. On Sebastian it hurted so bad.

Last stop: Our living room

I'm playing a trumpet that Jim gave me. I'm reading my magazine. It came with a mouthpiece, too, which is an important part.

I'm farting... I'm Dorian... I'm farting because I'm Dorian...

I'm using a trumpet. I love using a trumpet because that's Jim's. Jim came over today.

Dorian and Sebastian

I'm Dorian. Sebastian is my friend. Actually, he's my brother. Sometimes I swing on our swing we made. And we use some ropes for it... for the swing. Swings are cool.

I love to play in the snow. It's not snowing anymore. It's raining. I heared a thunderstorm last night and I slept through it. It's very loud KA-BOOM! That was a bad dream because it was a big thunderstorm!

I like planting flowers with Mama. We plant daffodils and all kinds of flowers.

That was a really great day being Dorian. We tried to find spring, but we couldn't. But there were signs of spring. I don't know what they were.

I have a class called Little Peoples. My teacher is Nicole and there's Ruthie and Neve and Priya and me, Dorian. I make crafts and all kinds of stuff.

"S" is for Sebastian. I love my brother, Sebastian. He's my great brother in the whole world. But we have a snow fight. And one day we made a snowman called Frosty. And there was a snowman called Frosty at Sugar on Snow. KA-BOOM!

I make silly faces.

That's it. The End!

The robot

This is "Robot the robot". Because he's really cool and one time his light bulb got sucked up. Remember that? By the vacuum. He's really right.

Once I really wanted, like, a 3D wire. But I couldn't find any. Suddenly when someone said I could use some of the toaster oven pieces, I found this wire that we got. A 3D wire is very cool because you like 3D wires.

I got the whole idea of building a robot because I thought of how much I liked robots. I made it out of cardboard boxes and machinery drawing papers. I put on a little screen that said, "Hello. I am Robot the robot." Daddy helped me by cutting out and taping on the boxes and stuff. I directed the robot. I gave it laser eyeballs. I only put on one hand because it took a long time drawing the gray metal color on the robo-claw. I put 2 light bulbs on its head. I put them on later than the pictures you see now were taken. Also I connected a spring from its arm to one of the wires from the double wire. The double wire was the one in 3D.

This is a back view. Now you can see where the wire (with both of the wires stuck together) is plugged in on the back of the body. Also we left some flaps open to open and close the legs and kept them open so it looked like the foot part.

Marian

Once upon a time, we were driving over to Marian's house. My stomach felt funny and my mouth and throat began to dry up. My intestines wiggled. I felt as if I were sick. It took one hour and I couldn't wait 'til we got to Marian's house.

In this picture, I'm wearing very funny eyeglasses. I call them "Slinky eyeball glasses." I'm also wearing a jester hat. I look funny.
I'm wearing those eyeglasses that Sebastian was wearing. I love going to my friend's houses. It's very fun. This was a good day I had at Marian's.

I'm playing pinball. I really liked playing pinball because it waits an hour. I wait an hour to play it. Sebastian was also playing.

This is me and Dorian's string band. I am playing the guitar. And I am playing the mandolin-banjo. It's called the banjolin. I love playing songs together when I like playing "The Rattlin' Bog."

And we got some funky presents. I got this bang flag gun. When you push the trigger, the nozzle opens up and a flag that says "bang" reveals out of it. I got some candy that makes you have funky teeth. It's really funny. I liked going sledding last year. It was really fun sledding last year. I love sledding, Mama. I was scared on my toboggan that I was going to fall. I kept yelling, "No, Sebastian! Not that way!" [Sebastian kindly reminded Dorian that this post was not about sledding. It was about going to Marian's house.]