Good ol' neighbors

We went to visit the Collen family out in Grafton today. It's been a few years since they moved out of Niskayuna and almost a year since we last visited their 'new' house. It was a good visit and we had a lot of fun. We watched some football on TV, read a book about a Christmas Mouse, played foosball, wrestled and made Ninja Turtle ornaments.

Bob's Trees

Got our Christmas tree today at Bob's.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I made this turkey artwork school project with Mom and Dad. The feathers are sparkly foam oak leaves, the waddle is made of red fuzzy balls, and it's got pipe cleaner feet. I also added photos of all of the people from my family that I'd be eating Thanksgiving dinner with. Dad wrote my name with pipe cleaners and Mom created the pumpkin.

Do you want to build a snowman?

A little bitty snowman?

Let's read some more!

I like reading my books and filling my "bookworm" list.

Fun center

Spent a couple hours today with my friend Dean at TreePaad family fun center. Air hockey, connect four, fruit ninja, and more. Good times.

Silver Dollar

I checked out some of Dad's old coins and he let me keep one of his "Ike" Silver Dollars!

Science Festival

I went to the Science Festival at the Museum of Innovation and Science (miSci) with Caleb. We got to make a tornado in a bottle, saw some cool experiments with liquid nitrogen, had fun making giant bubbles, paper airplanes and fog rings. There was also an exhibit with Madagascar hissing cockroaches. Dad held one and let it crawl on him and I let him put in on my arm for 2 seconds. That was enough of that for me.

Happy Halloween

I had a great Halloween with costume parades at Town Hall, Hillside, KinderCare after-school program and trick-or-treating with my friend Gabrielle and her brother Timothee. Dad wore a Stormtrooper mask to go with the Star Wars theme.

Parade at Town Hall

Hillside school parade

KinderCare parade

Darth Vader & Princess Vader

Me, Gabby and Timothee (as Zorro)

Bookworm & lunchbox drawings

Dad's been helping me fill in my Bookworm Reading Log for school. Every book I read gets written down. Sometimes he draws little pictures of the characters, too. He's also been drawing pictures and leaving notes in my lunchbox every day. And in the days leading up to Halloween, he put sketches of various ghouls and goblins in there, ending with a drawing of my Halloween costume, Darth Vader!