Merry Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas everybody!
I'm sorry I didn't make an entry yesterday, I was on Christmas vacation. Anyway, some of the things I would have said yesterday are that we had bacon and scrambled eggs for breakfast, and of course we also had cinnamon rolls. Then we opened or stockings and under-the-tree presents, and at the end of the day we had a lovely Christmas dinner at our friends house.

This is what we made with the Zome that Brian sent us.

And if you are wondering what Zome is, the I suppose the briefest explanation I could give would be that it's kind of like tinker toys.

Survey Answer

And the answer to my favorite food is.........

CREAMY PASTA!!!

And by the way, if you happen to figure out who voted Blue Mice with Curly Hair, can you please comment.

Quiet Christmasy Day

Well to day I got up and had spiced pecan oatmeal, ran around outside checking for heavy equipment going, and was just about to go in when I saw this big white thing that was towering above the trees shift. Of course, being the crazy heavy equipment watching maniac in my family, I had to investigate. I think that I couldn't have run any faster then I did just then, but it was worth panting like a Great Dane getting to the sight that met my eyes then. The huge white vehicle was an enormous driller machine, with a blade thicker than dad's body. It would drill down into the ground, and when it pulled it's oversized drill bit out of the ground it would be filled up with bits of dirt and ground up rock. They would then run it backwards and all the dirt and stuff would come off in a whirlwind and pile up on the ground next to the hole. Once the hole was deep enough, the driving guy drove the driller out of the way. It is so cool to watch those humongous tracks going! When the Drill thingy had finished parking, a big ol' crane came in and lowered a huge metal pole into the hole the drill thingy had just finished making. Then they took it away and brought in a cement truck. Those guys sure don't waste any time! I wached them pouring the cement in the gaps bettween the pole and the sides of the hole for a while, and then whent back home. I played with the electric train for a while, and had a pretty quiet rest of my day, but all in all, I think my title is kind of false.

Hot Potatoes and Other Things

Our family goes to Spanish church in the morning, and after the singing, the kids usually go out to the park, and yesterday at the park Ruth and Deahndra and I played lots of fun games. First we played "Would you rather", and then we played something dad would never let us do, we call it "obstacle course", and you play it by climbing around on the play structure the hardest possible way.

Objective:
Not to fall off.

Oh, and since it's in the title, I should probably say that we also played hot potato.

Umm?

OK, who voted Blue Mice With Curly Hair as my favorite food?

Concert

Yesterday I had my first concert where I played saxophone! Here's two videos:

Demolishing Saturday

My day today started out with me going into Ruth's room and us playing around and reading our student-authored books, making fun of their immense stupidity and utter terribleness. For breakfast mom made (homemade) doughnuts, and they were super duper yummy, as always, but she didn't put any potatoes in them this time, her sympathy for her fellow vegetables prevailing over her possibly unkind actions. Right after breakfast I went out to watch heavy equipment, and I somehow ended up watching the little tiny buldozy-tracktory-lodery thingy knocking down one of or neighbors' walls with Pheobe, I don't recall how she joined me, but I definitely remember our argument on weather we should stop watching and go inside or keep watching. Some events I choose not to mention because of the dad-getting-mad risk followed that, and I ended up watching the little tiny buldozy-tracktory-lodery thingy doing some more demolishing, this time along side my friends John and Nicholas. After what seemed like a short period of watching, John ans Nicholas' dad said that they had to go buy a Christmas tree with him, two seconds after we got to see the porch get knocked down. John was very disappointed that he didn't get to see the water heater get squished and put in the dumpster. A little bit after they left, (or maybe it was quite a while, my sense of time can get slightly limited while I am watching heavy equipment) the driving guy got out and went in the porta-potty for a poopy break. I decided to go home for a poopy break, too, and a few minutes after I returned to the demolishing site, the driving guy came out of the porta-potty and started driving the little tiny buldozy-tracktory-lodery thingy again. Eventually, he squished the water heater and put it in the dumpster. A few minutes later, John and Nicholas arrived. John was a bit put out!

Heavy Equipment Hunt

Today Dad and Ruth and I went up to Westmont and looked around for any heavy equipment that was demolishing stuff that got burned by the fire. We saw this big drilly thingy that wasn't going, and a bunch of other cool stuff that weren't going, and the stuff that was going wasn't doing anything very interesting. But when we got back from Westmont, we saw some COO-OOL stuff. Here's some pictures I took:






Cool, huh? Well, mom was wakling home from work when she saw a little loader demolishng someone's house, so she called dad on her cell phone and told him about it. Dad told me about it, so I'm off to see it, so that means that this entry is OVER!

More Paper Vehicles

The last "paper vehicle" I made at the Art From Scrap workshop was a biggish spaceship that I pretended was a freighter and named Freitey.
At the rental house I made a tank later to be named Tanky Red. The only materials I had at the rental house were a newspaper, pipe cleaners, and dental floss. Yet Tanky Red turned out pretty good. Then dad got a roll of red tape and I made Tanky Red stronger and, well, RED!
Oh, and I also made a missile launcher.

Paper Vehicles (Contenued)

So, as I said in my last entry, I have recently started making small toy vehicles and pretending they're alive, giving them names, and playing pretending games with them. I got started on this idea last Saturday (not the day before yesterday, the Saturday before that.) at the Art From Scrap workshop.
Art From Scrap is this store that sells little pieces of junk that could be used for art. Every Saturday there is a "Workshop" that is at Art From Scrap, where you can go into this room and there are little bits of scrap that you can make art out of, and tape and glue guns and things.
When we went there last Saturday, I made a tank out of a strawberry container, toilet paper tubes, and caps for small containers. I covered it in green tape to make it look more camouflaged. I gave this "Paper Vehicle" the name Tanky Green, but Ruth and I like to just call him "Tanky", or "Tanky G." for short.
When I was at Art From Scrap's workshop I also made a little spaceship that was very small compared to the rest of my "Paper Vehicles". I didn't know what most of the materials I used were, but some of them were marker caps, tubes, and a cork. This one, I think, is my favorite, but I'm not sure why. I named it Vroomy.
I made more, and I'll continue to tell you about them later, I have to eat breakfast.

Paper Vehicles

I have recently started making small toy vehicles and pretending they're alive, giving them names, and playing pretending games with them. I will continue this post later, I'm really sorry, but I have to leave.

Back in Our House!!!

We have just started unpacking our bags and moving back into our house! We're planning to sleep in our house after 24 days of living in Other Places.

Woofy Doogie Park

Yesterday we went to a park by the beach we like to call the "Dog Walking" park, because the only people we see besides ourselves whenever we go over there are walking their dogs. When I'm being silly or trying to annoy Ruth I sometimes call it the "Woofy Doogie" park. There are lots of great trees to climb on, and one of my favorites we like to call the lichen tree, because on the higher branches there is lots and lots of lichen growing in big tufts. The dog walking park is right next to the beach, and there's this one place where you can climb a tree on the edge of the cliff and see the ocean, the beach, the mountains, and the valley.
You're up so high that the ocean and its waves look like the waves are breaking in slow motion. You can see so much beach, and the people that are on it just look like little dots. That particular beach has some pretty big waves, and my mom spotted some people surfing on them. It was fun watching them, because usually when they caught a wave the would fall off at some point in their ride, and who doesn't like to see that?

Survey, Background, and Sorry

I'm sorry I haven't posted for a while, it's just that I haven't really gotten around to it. Do you like my background? Please vote on that survey I put up!!

Survey Winner

It was a tie between "your likes and dislikes", "friends and family's likes and dislikes", and "more options". They drew straws, and "more options" was the winner!