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.

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.

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.

At the beach

We liked going to the beach. It was really fun going to the beach. We liked it. I mean, we loved it!

Look, I'm just sitting in the sand for a while.

We are on the Beach Plum crab sittin' for a while. Right? Yes, but you mean lobster. You get ice cream at the Beach Plum. How much ice cream? A lot.

Yeah, there's Milky Way. And you are having gum. Bubble gum? Yeah, but I don't like bubble gum. "Can I please have the Milky Way?" I said when I got there. My ice cream was alright but it kept dripping. And it was filled with all these tiny pieces of gum that I finally couldn't stand. So, Mom had to throw my ice cream away.
Sebastian is doing the shooting gallery. You have to shoot these targets and the things do different kinds of animation. Like, the ghost lights up. And the piano player plays a piano. Two of them. Yeah.
This is the puppet show I was watching. It maked everything do stuff. It was very fun watching it. It had a song in it. It went, "Old MacDonald had a farm..." and so on.

Whee! I'm riding on Dad's shoulders. It was very fun, but when we went to Seagull Island it was high tide, so we had to go back. Dad almost stubbed his toe on a rock.

I'm sittin' on the rock here, but it may look like I'm walking on water with part of my bottom on a rock. He looks very cool in that picture. Thank you, Dorian.

I'm jumping really high. Well, I was jumping the waves. That's what I was doing. I liked going boogie boarding at the beach. It felt good.

We are at Little Island. Little Island is a very small island near Plover Point. We named all of them.

I am the tiger

I made a story about me before. Today I'm reading books. In the book is a shark eating a boy in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid. It's very fun to read it, but I'm almost to the end. It's almost done because it has so many pages!

I go to W. Bee now. On April Fool's Day, yesterday, at W. Bee I played with toys in the playing room. We sang a song about fishes that goed SNAP!

We have a RockBand 2 at our house. I like to play "I am the Tiger it's the thrill of the fight!" I love to play all the songs like "Chap Suey"-- it starts with "wake up!" It has a lot of "you wanted to"s in it. And "Nine in the Afternoon, you could 'cause you can, so you do. Just the way that we do when it's nine in the afternoon." I sing it all over again.

I really liked saying Little Peoples in the first story of me, Dorian. I'm the greatest boy in the whole wide world! I added KA-BOOM! in the other story.

I like my mother. She's so great to see. Just a-goin' to the Wii.

I love All-School Sing. That's what friends are for.

My dad is wonderful dad.

The End.

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!

I'm gonna be in the newspaper!

Of course! I thought I was gonna be in the Brattleboro Reformer. This is the best day of my life because I get to be in the news for my very first time. I was surprised about Frosty. Frosty gets to be in the paper also. One day I'll get in the paper. Yeah, maybe you will be. Just perhaps, Dorian.

I was at Sugar on Snow when I got my picture taken. I think they took the picture of me because they liked my hat. It all started when this woman (who wasn't taking pictures for the paper) was taking a picture of me. Then all of the sudden this woman who was taking pictures for the paper suddenly snuck up and took a picture of me myself. Then I slept a sleep. Then, one day, I looked on the computer and saw all the pictures that were gonna be in the paper. And when I saw them, one of them was the picture of me. And that's how I know I'm gonna be in the news.

Making a machine

We are taking apart a toaster oven, which is really funny. Sebastian was even really taking apart the toaster oven. So I'd take some pieces to connect them to make a new machine. When Sebastian was taking apart the toaster oven, I punched my face. In the next picture, you'll see that there's gonna be, you'll see most of the machinery from the side.

See all the wires and stuff? That part was really cool. There were lights and a bell. It was so cool! We took out the tray, the wire, and the knobs. And the lights. Yeah, we also took lights. I was planning on making a musical instrument, an automatic keyboard, that when you push buttons that say "Bass" "ABCDEFG" then it's gonna be the same for "Low", "Middle" and "High". And when you push the buttons, there will be some drumsticks on top of the keys and when you see yourself pushing the buttons, the drumsticks will fall down on top of the keys and it will make a musical note. That looks like a TV standing on my face.

[A toaster oven was harmed during production of this post by permission of the owner.]

Christmas is special

I love you! I love Christmas presents. We're about to open presents. It's Christmas! It's Christmas, ho ho ho!

I'm Santa, and I'm giving out presents.

I'm the Thing from Fantastic 4. The costume came from Santa. There was a note that said, "What you asked for when we were talking wouldn't fit inside your stocking. Look under the tree for a picture of me. Love, Santa" And I saw the one and only present that was near me with a picture of Santa on it. Inside there was not one costume, there was two! I got another one called a "Honey Bunny" but it was missing only the bunny ear headband.


We're wearing our sledding things. We're wearing our snowshoes. I thought they were great.

We're making a snowman.

We went to Panasian for lunch. And I discovered that my tooth was loose. It was actually 2 teeth that were loose. And they were right next to each other. And they were wiggling!

December specials

Whether you've been naughty or nice, have a very happy holiday!

Look at us. We're very cool. See us?

Merry Christmas! I hope you get all you want!

Thanksgiving weekend

I'm holding a bone of turkey. I'm taking a bite of it.

I'm rolling around in the snow. I'm looking at Sebastian. We went to advent tea at Cookie's house. I was solving a mystery with this writing box. And all the lat names I heard in the writing box were Powers. We were jumping in the snow. We had a snowball fight. It was snowing while I was at advent tea.
I'm looking at your bunny. You made a bunny.

Things to be thankful for

Sebastian presents: How to make a Thanksgiving Tree

We made a Thanksgiving tree. You cut out a tree-shaped shape that has branches and a tree trunk-- no leaves. And then you cut out colored leaves and write what you are thankful for on them. Stick the tree-shaped cut out paper onto the wall. Tape or glue. You can use any kind that can stick. Then use the same material to stick the leaves onto the tree.

I was thankful for the markers. Mama was thankful for coffee and chocolate. Daddy was thankful for music and video games. And I was thankful for cranberries.

[A few others in no particular order: the dishwasher, pumpkin pie, being in a band, the leaves, my brother and parents friends and relatives, cake, non-fiction books, 2 crazy children, naps, wool and the needles to knit it with, our new house, notebooks and animating, Thomas the tank engine, RockBand, lower gas prices, throwing rocks in the river, food from local farms. Guess who said what!]

I was going to Little Peoples camp!

Look at me! Look at Dorian! I was drawing. And I was going to Little Peoples camp. Did you know that? Because that is my special camp. Yeah. I go to Little Peoples camp. I did it. Mama leaved me there. Fun! Yeah. Yeah, really. It was fun again. I had a good day.

Busy Birthday Weekend

I'm looking at my box of robotics. I built the remote control robot. I also got some Ed Emberley books and another drawing book with a pen and 2 colored pencils. I also got an electric bell and K'nex. It was fun playing with them and building them. I'm holding my best friend Kiki who is a knit cat. I love her. I also love her, too.

We were lying next to the robot. Me and Daddy and Dorian made it with blue tape. I made it because of my special birthday party.

We're making a potion. We'll throw it at Mama. We used chalk, water, dirt, packed down soil, and bugs. And bug blood. We also used pumpkin guts.
Look at our robot cake! Don't you see all the buttons and the big funny face? I do, but Dorian doesn't see. [Kids laughing.] I do, but Sebastian doesn't see. [They cackle and repeat themselves endlessly. Let's move on.]

Mama's bringing out the cake. And you know what? It had a lemon flavor.

Today we went to Gone Bananas. I'm playing the Dog Pounder.

I'm playing Arctic Thunder. We were in something.

Now we're playing Dance Dance Revolution. It was special because it was Japanese, my favorite language. It's my favorite language because they have cute words.

My birthday is great! I feel happy to be 6!