Art with Grandma

Grandma and Grandpa came to visit us and help celebrate mom's birthday. While they were here we took Grandma to the Columbus Museum of Art.

This is my favorite room. The paintings are huge and beautiful.

Monet! I hear he's famous.

There are lots of activities at the Art Museum. I love making art.

Mom is 40!

My mom is 40 now. To celebrate she didn't go to work, we ate ice cream cake, and we gave her homemade presents. Dad didn't draw her anything, so he bought her some art instead.

40 must be pretty young because she doesn't seem old at all!

Happy St. Patrick's Day

I'm 1/8th Irish and proud of it!

Knock, knock, knock!

I don't know how to drive yet, but that can't stop me from being a Meals-On-Wheels helper. This weekend I delivered lunch to 20 people. They were really nice and happy to meet me. I can't wait to do it again!

Rollerskating party

The kids choir at church had a rollerskating party! It was my first time and I think I did pretty great. Mom and Luke put on skates too. Mom was a lot better than she said she would be. She didn't even fall down once. I think I fell down 20 or 30 times. Luke spent the whole time on the ground or crawling. He couldn't stop falling down!

Look at me!! 

Amazing! Mom got a picture of Luke standing up,

U.S. Capitol

The U.S. Capitol is in D.C. It is where the country's leaders work. The leaders are people grown-ups vote for. This is what I've been told. The building is very cool and filled with statues and paintings.

The outside doesn't look so great right now.

We all ate in the cafeteria, watched a movie, and took a tour with a very smart man who told us all about everything. I think he liked me a lot because I asked him lots of questions.

There were lots of statues of important people. Every state gets to have a statue.

 I tried to catch Speaker Boehner but he wasn't in because of the holiday. Maybe next time. 

Library of Congress

We spent President's Day visiting the Library of Congress and the U.S. Capitol with Ali, Dan, Dexter, Mom, and Luke. I love libraries, but I've NEVER been in one that looked like this! It was one of the most beautiful building's I've ever seen.

The outside of the Library of Congress looks pretty good... let's check it out.

The librarians had activities for kids to celebrate President's Day. Dexter and Luke made some President masks.

I practiced my speech for when I become President.

Ali and I played an Oval Office game. I won, of course.

Then we found an unlocked, secret, spiral staircase and followed it up, up, up until we ended up in this room! Pretty fancy. Check out the ceiling! Wonder what they do with this room?

Finally, we went into the main lobby. Does your library look like this? Mine sure doesn't!

Because of the holiday, they let us into the library's main reading room. It was super fancy. Again, check out that ceiling!

Mom showed us something called a card catalog. I still don't know what that is for.

DC Monuments

On our last trip to Ali's we saw lots of cool things in Washington, D.C. First stop was the Lincoln Memorial. It was so gigantic! There were lots of flowers there to celebrate his birthday.

This was the very spot where Martin Luther King, Jr., stood when he gave his "I Have a Dream" speech.

Check out the Washington Monument behind us.

It looks so close... but it was really far away and it was super cold out!!

Finally, we stopped at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial. 

100 Days of School

Today was the 100th day of school. To celebrate I covered a t-shirt with 100 sea creatures. Counting to 100 is easy. So... is Kindergarten over yet?

How to steal candy in my house

Higher!

How high can a this little monkey climb? Pretty high!

My friends throw cool birthday parties.

Lost my first tooth!!!!!

You read it right. Mom noticed that my tooth was loose on Monday. (Don't know how I missed that.) And by Tuesday, it was loose enough for Dad to pull it out. I'M SO EXCITED! I used my Minecraft chest as a tooth holder, and sure enough the Tooth Fairy left me some money. I love it!

Rock Tumbler, Part 1

My love of all things Minecraft includes rocks and mining in the real world. Thanks to Grandfather giving me a rock tumbler, I'm polishing up some rocks I mined this summer at the Olentangy Indian Caverns. Its been running for a few weeks and the rocks are already looking great! I'll let you know when they're done.

Classroom reader

This week I brought my favorite book to school and read it to my class. The book is called A New Friend. It is funny and interesting and I can read the whole thing! My teacher was so impressed.