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!

Dancing with the fiddles

Look at this picture. Is anything missing? The bridge. These are the Morris dancers. They use sticks and hankies and stuff like that.
The stick broke when his partner hit it very hard. They are playing sticks. The woman is playing an accordion.
I am in the stroller. Dorian thinks it's so loud he has to cover his ears. They were playing sticks.
That boy put that foot behind this part. But they have bells there. Then they broke the stick. He's not talking about a boy, he's talking about a woman, he just doesn't know.

This was a great sleepover!

Lydia came over because she wanted to sleep over last Saturday. I planned we would have noodles for dinner. I loved my supper! I had D and G and O and I.
Me and Lydia are hugging each other. Or maybe dancing. We were dancing. We were playing house. We first make dinner. And then we go out for our wedding. First we dance. Then we eat. Then we dance again.
Dorian joined in a picture. We're playing school now. We ride on school busses. A yellow one and a brown one. And we go to a classroom in college. We do in the classroom music and playtime and mail time and ABC time.
We even have sleepy time. We're in our beds. We were sleeping in sleeping bags. And I'm in a sleeping bag, too! It was nice sleeping on the floor. Lydia's is orange and mine is blue.
Now we're playing Hullabaloo. It's morning time in college. Soon it will be breakfast time. We had blueberry muffins for breakfast. Hullabaloo is a very fun game. I'm dressed up as Mimiko from Panda! Go Panda!

We liked having our first sleepover. Watching Panda! Go Panda! was my favorite part of the sleepover. Lydia invited me to go for a sleepover at her house. I really do want to go to her house.

Show!

In the morning, I got a big idea. I thought what fun it would be to have a show. What I planned was to have costumes, books, cars, animals, bugs, and music. So we got out everything we needed from the backstage which was our bedroom and took it to the music room where we were going to perform. We made a program and I passed out tickets and we painted 2 billboards. (This show wasn't going to perform without passing out tickets.)

This is us in our costumes for a short Act 1.
Dorian's doing his butterfly. I'm performing the music. His butterfly flied and danced.
Dorian's holding Kermit the Frog. I think I'm starting to put down my guitar.
There I am a magical fairy. And what I did while I was a fairy was waving my wand and go Bing!
Right now I am fixing a chair. Dorian's playing the xylophone.I'm playing the drums. And we had lots of things for our show. Even a white curtain and a red ribbon to wrap it up when the curtain would open. Quinn helped do it. But the show did turn out well. We had a medium audience: Quinn, Cortney, Dustin, Jeremy, and Allison. And the audience did like the show. Especially Jeremy.

It's fun but hard to do

I was dancing along with Ratatat.

My dance is called "The Year of the Pig."

Dorian's dance was a little slower than my spins.