Monday, August 27, 2012

My first day at school...

Today was my first day at school - I'm a first grader now.  I go to Room # 8 and my teacher's name is Mrs. Moody.  In the summer time, she was the teacher that already taught me in the Bug Camp and the Creatures of the Sea Camp so I already know her.  Some of my friends aren't in my class room, they are in Room # 9.  I had homework tonight too.  I had to write out my spelling words, practice my numbers and practice knowing the definitions of some vocabulary words.  Want to know the words I had to practice on?  It was the words;  abdomen - that's your stomach, abandon - that's when you leave something, accelerate - that's when Papa drives faster, and absorb - that's like a sponge soaking up the water.  AND - we went to McDonald's to celebrate me going for my first day!  Mana is going to try to put my picture up so you can see what I looked like today.  I did NOT want my picture taken this morning, so I let her take my picture tonight.  That's my school shirt - and for four days I have to wear my school shirt and khaki shorts or pants and on Friday, I get to wear what I want to wear - not my uniform.  AND, on Friday's, that's the only day I want hot lunch because they have cheese pizza.  I like to bring my lunch from home better.  Tomorrow I will have a bologna sandwich, some oranges and a chocolate chip cookie in my lunch.  Do you know what you are having yet?  It was a good day.  I'm pretty tired because I played hard outside and I have to get up at 6:30 in the morning.  

I forgot something!  Did you know I have my own room now?  I'll tell you about it later.  I want to watch some TV before bed.  My room is blue (Panther's color) and I HAVE A HAMSTER named Rocky.

Good night!

Last week before school...

I only had to go to summer camp three days this week and then I had two days off (Thursday and Friday) because there's no summer camp left!!  Then, I have off four days and then real school starts.

On Thursday, I stayed home with my mom.  I don't know what we are did.  I wanted to get in the pool but we didn't do that. I played computer games and watched some TV.  Then, me and my mom baked some mint chocolate chip cookies.  They were really yummy!  I'll bring you some, okay?

On Friday, Mana didn't work and we went to the Children's Museum.  I got to play with lots of things and maked some fake money with my picture on it!  My bills were worth $1,000,000.00 each!  That's a lot of money.  When we were leaving, I telled Mana to please buy me a drink and she said I had big bills and that I could buy it. I said, "MANA, that's just fake money."  So, she buyed me a coke and some chicken nuggets.  You'd really like the Children's Museum.  They got this really tall, TALL boy inside that you can climb up in his brain and stomach and guts and slide down slides.  Inside, there's all these weird noises.  I played with so much stuff there - there's a water part with little boats, and a fire truck, and electricity, and a store, and a farm (you really get to milk a cow too - I squirted Mana!), and there's a market and big fake change and a bank and a cash register and musical instruments and lots and lots of stuff.  I didn't want to leave but we had to go pick up Papa from work and see Mary's new apartment. Did you know Mary has to go to school too?  She's still a kid too, you know.  That's why she is not a grown up - because she is still in school.

My Beach Week!!!

So, you know, I went to the beach for a whole week with my Grandpa, and Gaga, and Kyleigh and Annie and Brandy and Austyn and Jenny and I can't remember who else was there.  We had a GREAT time.  Wanna know what I did?  I did fun stuff like walked on the beach and collected shells and ate some pizza.  At night times, my Grandpa read me bedtime stories (and to Kyleigh and Austyn too).  We got to use our flashlights to look for crabs.  Have you ever done that?  Guess what?  Grandpa made this cool pulley thing on top of the deck so we could lower stuff to the beach on the bottom floor in a bucket.  I got lots of drinks that way.  I got to go to a movie with Grandpa and Austyn and Kyleigh too to see "Ice Age" again.  Then we had a family magic show.  I can do some cool magic tricks, did you know?  Grandpa and Gaga buyed me some tricks to do at home too.  I'm practicing.  I played a lot on my boogie board with Kyleigh and Austyn. I even went shoppine too and got some ice cream.  All week we watched some of the Olympics and it rained a little bit EVERY day.  I liked playing 'Froggy Dog' with everybody.  You ever played that?  I can show you how to play it next time I see you.  We built this big sandcastle with Uncle Eric too.  I got to catch minnows with this little net and we put them in the little pool.  I even got to play football with Uncle Joseph too.  I'm really good at football.  Another movie I got to see was "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" and ate lots of popcorn. Did you know my Grandpa tried to catch a shark so I could have the big jaw and teeth?!  He didn't catch a shark but he buyed me this shark jaw with sharp teeth in it and I taked it to school to show all my friends.  One day at the beach, we maked Brandy into a mermaid and covered her all up with sand.  I fed seagulls too - I gived them bread and popcorn.  All week I collected shells for Papa, and Mana, and my Mom.  I got a bag for each one of them.  

Here's some of my sayings during the week that Gaga wrote down because she thought you might like to know ~

'Anthony's Eyelashes'
Gaga:  "Anthony your eyes are so beautiful."
Anthony: "I have the most beautiful eyelashes in the world.:"
Anthony:  " My eyelashes are longer than God's!"

'Finding Shells for Mana'
Every shell that Anthony found - "Mana is going to love this one."

'Peaches for Papa'
Anthony looked at every peach in the grocery store to pick out 'perfect' peaches for Papa because "Papa really loves peaches."

Maybe next time you can go with us to the beach too!  I had a really good time!  Thanks for taking me to the beach Grandpa and Gaga and Mana says thanks so much for writing everything down!!