The Monster Mash Comes to Life

Meet Sebastian the zombie on the left and Dorian the vampire on the right.

We are all decked out in our Halloween gear for my Halloween birthday party. What a scream!

Oh no! Dracula's son is out to get you! Watch out for his bite attack!

Uh oh! Here comes Sebastian the zombie! Gonna get you!

Do you like double attacks? Cuz here comes one.

This game we're playing right now is called eyeball bounce. It was really fun playing it.

Here comes my first shot ready to bounce not roll. The object of the game is bounce ping pong balls that look like eyeballs into one of those nine jars over there. The small ones are 150 points, the ones in the middle are 100 points and the ones in the back are 50 points.

This is called Monster Lab. All you have to do is just draw a monster.

The way to draw it is pick a card out of a pumpkin bucket (no peeking) and whatever body part the card says you have to draw. For example, those creepy red eyes up there with the added eyebrows drawn by me I drew because when I picked the first time, my card was a slip of paper that said "EYES" so I had to follow the directions. I just want you to know that you should really watch out for those poisonous boogers coming out of its nose and the blood coming out of those warts won't give you a nice surprise when you touch them.

This is a Jack-O-Lantern cake. To make the mouth and eyes we used some sprinkles.

Yummy! I love cake! It tasted good. No, not good. Great. No, no great. Super great.

No, not super great. Super duper great.

No, not super duper great. Super duper alley ooper great.

This is called Brain Toss. See that white thing sticking out of it, it's a tongue. Just kidding. It's a brain.

I would call that a point because at least the bean bag brain got halfway in. Actually, nobody else threw a brain bean bag halfway in. Mom designed the zombie and I wonder how dad caught the picture of the brain in midair.

I was the one who won the game. Nobody else actually got all of the bean bag brains in the mouth.

I must say Dorian's Jack-O-Lantern turned out awesome.

I say that it's so cute that it's scary.

I say that it couldn't have come out that great without the help of dad.

I really like the yellow glow in that one. Actually that's my Jack-O-Lantern.

You cannot even see the outside of the pumpkin, you can only see the face of it.

I call that face "The Evil Glare Stare."

This is both of us in our costumes about to go outside for Halloween. We're making scary faces in this picture, right?

Yes but I'd rather say that in this picture we're "ready to strike." For candy that is.

The latest Paquette Pictures movies so far

These are Dorian's 2 first movies and they're combined into one as well. And they're really cool!



I got this idea from my brother, but this time, I added more characters. They even have a pet turtle! And best of all, more treasure.


Ever thought of stuffed animals living, breathing and even attacking? Find out what happens in this movie!

A trip to Boston

We went to Boston to visit our friend, Uncle Jim. We had fun. Of course we did! On the first day we were doing a little exploring around part of the city. We stopped to rest on some grass and dirt lifted up by some stone. We played a little game.

We were playing on the wall and grass and doing these courses or something. They're very great! We had fun playing. If you step on this blue thing you get an extra life or something.
I'm standing in front of the door of this place called "Sebastians." I'm standing in front of it because Sebastian is my name. We were surprised when we saw that name on the sign of places you can go in the subway station.

We took the subway to the kids' museum, of course.

In this picture, we're in the net maze. It's really fun. Yeah, I like it.

I'm pretending I'm lifting Sebastian up in this big truck. There are lots of levers. I'm pretending one is down and one is up. And Sebastian's lying down like he's dead. Well, maybe. I'm not dead.

We're playing the steel drums. I wish we had one at home.

We're standing with Quack. He's a guy in Peep in the Big, Wide World. We got to play with water in Peep's World. There was a faucet with a bucket that swung when there was too much water in it. There was this spoon thing that lifted the water up when it came to the bottom, and when it came to the right side it puts down the water back and it keeps going.

We're in Arthur World right now. This is a picture of the TV that shows anybody in front of this video camera in the room and it shows us on the TV with Arthur stuff. It looked like we were standing in front of the Arthur stuff, but basically, we're in front of a green wall. It was cool to see ourselves on TV. Yeah.

I felt sad that we were leaving Boston. Me too. I really was gonna miss Uncle Jim. At the beginning, it was nice to see Uncle Jim again.

Making Bill in Notebookland

"Bill in Notebookland" is the first of a series of animated shorts by Paquette Pictures with a soundtrack on my first album, Amps & Microkeyboards. The shorts are animated in order of the songs. I hope you enjoy the movie!

Winter carnival time

I was picked for the first ride on a dog sled. I felt really good, but kind of sad because Dorian couldn't do it. It was really a fun ride for me and the other kid who went with me. There had to be 2 people per sled. The sleds were really decorated and really cool. I got 4 bags and Dorian got only 2 in the candy chase, so I gave Dorian a bag of candy.

A candy chase is when you try to get this candy. It's outside at Memorial Park. It's on the ground-- the candy is. It's a really fun thing. Last time, I didn't get any candy until some guys gave me some. And me and Sebastian both got to have candy. We got to sled down the hill, of course.

Winter Time Fun! (Snowmen)

In this picture you can see we are with this snowman and it doesn't really have a carrot nose, just a wood nose. And it's smoking a pipe. We made it out of a set we got, I think, last winter. It was fun making the snowmans.

This is one we mainly decorated out of plastic Easter egg parts. In this picture you can see I'm wearing a super suit. It has like these robots two together and then another set two together.Mom made the snowman's face --look mean!-- all out of things you eat. The eyes are apricots, it has a carrot nose, and a Brazil nut mouth. We wanted to make a mean face.

This is our snow fort we made. This afternoon it all crumbled up and I don't know where all those buried snowballs I made are. They probably are under the blocks of snow that we used to partly make the wall of the fort. It's very cool, I think. And it's very fancy, I think. I think it crumbled because it was so hot outside today. And the snow fort was so cool that I thought we were not only, like, carpenters, we also seemed like architects.

Crocodiles

This is a movie and it's called "Newsstand" anyway. The title of the post is called "Crocodiles". It's a fun movie. I hope you watch it. Dorian Paquette wrote the song.

Art on Friday

Right in the picture you can see some of the artwork that I made for the show. The title of my artwork was called, "Sights from inside a reconfigured UFO." Mine was called "Mocha"-- yeah, yeah yeah! Sarah made a really cool piece of artwork and I like it because it has a bird swinging and clouds hanging in front of a background made of sewn together fabric of all different kinds. I think one of them was the kind that makes jeans.

Do you see in this picture that I'm waving 2 fingers?

There were 3 people that I saw looking at mine and Dorian's artwork and liked it. We had a conversation about what our artwork was called and what's in the pictures and how long it really took to make it and how much money it cost. Mine cost $78.94. Mine was $11 and no cents. I think that somebody will probably buy mine because it has so much stuff in it but I partly doubt it because it cost so much money that they'll have to have a lot of money to buy the whole thing. I want to have a whole show sometime-- just my artwork. I'm a good artist, you know.

Love ya!

The White Pants Unite!

This is a practice of The White Pants. Me and my brother Dorian and my friend Lydia and my friend Archer are in it. Those are all the people in The White Pants.

Busy December Days

We were both in pictures and in the first one Alfred said, "Cheeseburger!" and in the second one he said, "Spaghetti and Meatballs!" That's what he said. I asked Santa for a 12 footed robot. I asked Santa for a Hershey's big bar and an orange.

I'm making this gingerbread guy. I didn't like the dark blue jelly bean.

I'm making a red and green gingerbread guy. We were doing it where we got to visit Santa and the place where Open Gym is held.

This is a picture from the snow day we had, luckily. I was waiting for a snow day from school. Finally, I got one. That's when we were out in the snow. I love it! We're behind a hill in partly our yard, partly the neighbor's yard.

This is a picture from the gingerbread party. Mine is the one which says "Shack O' Fun" and you probably know that because you can hardly see my blondish hairdo right near it. Lydia made the one that says "Ho-Ho Manor" and Riley's has an "R" on it I don't think you can see because it's not in the picture.
Christmas morning has finally come! Yeah, I liked it when I got that big Hershey's bar. And stuff. And stuff.

Sebastian, did Santa bring what you asked for? No. Grandma did. One of my favorite presents is my name made of wood. I put it on my bass drum. And I'm gonna keep it there when I'm drumming in the band. One of my favorite things is for the whole family: a chocolate orange. And it's cool that I really got what I wanted: a book called "The Christmas Cat"-- it's not what I wanted, but I like it. Daddy got something that is really cool-- chewy, double-flavored Lemonhead and friends. Dorian got a deep diver. I just love Christmas. It's one of my favorite holidays.

Crystal Minding Mining

I'm smashing this. It's called plaster. I'm trying to get all the crystals out. We had to wear a apron and we had to put the plaster on paper so it wouldn't go all over the table and it was fun. It was the first time I had my own. And Dad helped me and also we did some teamwork.

There's, like, a lot of plaster in this one and if you look, like, a little at the bottom you can see a crystal that we were trying to get out. I think it was the one we would get out the next day.

This one has paper with all the crystals on it. We got all of them out. There were 9 crystals. It said there were 8 on the thing. There's just 4 of us in this family, you know.

We had to use this brush and we got out the crystals from the water and we just scrubbed it off. I remember some of them. Two ones have "quartz" in them: rose quartz and clear quartz. But I forgot the other ones. It was fun getting out it. I think the clear quartz look very blank because they have no color.

I have this pouch, a magnifying glass, a brush and a hammer to do it. In this one, I'm holding the pouch. Dustin and Cortney gave this to me. Thanks, Dustin and Cortney! It was great! I thought it was really fun.

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.