Start of Summer addition
You seem to be enjoying summer explorer camp this year. So
far you have gone to:
- Nantasket Beach
- Hopkinton State Park
- Scussett Beach
- Dinosaur Exhibit
- Goddard State Park
Papa has taken you to:
- Lego Land – you had fun
- Heritage Museum & Gardens – you LOVED this – they had 2 exhibits you couldn’t stop talking about. The first was “Wicked Plants”, detailing all sorts of plants that can kill you Papa said you read EVERY description – hahaha – welcome to our world. There was also a “Big Bug” exhibit, you had to search the grounds for all of the man made, wooden bugs.
You and J-Man have swam and made
sugar cookies at our place (there is a water balloon fight, tie dying and rice
crispy treats in your futures too!)
You have been camping twice with
another trip this weekend AND we had the extra crunchie bonus of having my
favorite godson, his sister and their parents (my uncle & aunt) here for
the week. We got to see them once, you were SOO disappointed that you didn’t
get to spend a week with GO, but you guys made the most of the time you had.
Movies you have watched:
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – it was insane watching you watch this – you at times were dancing you were so excited, well sometimes with glee, but often you did the dance of annoyance- any time we had to pause the movie)
- The Spy Next Door (you were extremely nervous that you wouldn’t like this, but we explained that Jackie Chan has done a lot of funny movies) – you loved it
- Free Birds - you were happy
- And something else that for the life of me I can’t remember
You have added several things to
your mealtime adventures:
- Hamburger (both burgers and just hamburger in stuff – TACOS!!!! YOU LOVE TOACOSSSSSSSSSssssssssssssssss)
- Sausage (you have been eating breakfast sausage for awhile, but now you do sweet Italian – in fact the other night Boy Toy was grilling sausage for our supper and I had him grill two packages 1 for dinner and 1 that I would throw into a spaghetti sauce the next day. You ate 7 sausages, you would have eaten more, but I refused. I had 2…
- Piquant pork chops - this is a recipe that your great-grandmother (Nannie’s mom) used to make. To be honest with you I was expecting you to dislike it and I had BIG plans on having the leftovers for lunch today, but guess who loved it….well, you didn’t care for the red peppers and I didn’t understand when you kept saying “it has too much ketchup” what you really meant was peppers – once I explained and we moved the peppers away you went to town. Yet another recipe that will soon need to be doubled (hold the peppers)
Summer Reading:
I took you and J-man to the
library’s summer reading kick off – they had a magician Peter Boie that was really
cool, “Peter started learning magic at age 11 from a magic book he checked out
of his local library. That interest
turned into a career as a professional magician which takes him around the
country performing for people in all walks of life.”
The neat thing about the program
this summer is that not only do you fill out periodic table for every 30 mins
they read (we can’t help loving the elements
-
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/theymightbegiants/meettheelements.html), but
they are also given an optional science experiment to do (for more changes of prizes). This will
be great for kids like J-man who find reading challenging/boring. You are super excited about it (last year’s
theme was pirates and doubloons). I get
kind of bummed when we go to events at the library when there are very few kids
your age or older. Why aren’t more people at the Library?
BOOOOOKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Our town is often an odd town.
We are also doing the Barns &
Noble summer reading program where you read 8 books and then you get a free
book. Who doesn’t love FREE!!!??
Books read: (or in the midst of
reading, which I really don’t get as I don’t have multiple books going at the
same time, I find your reading style an abomination, not that I would say such
a thing, get a book, read book, move to the next. THAT is the order of things):
- BIG NATE AND FRIENDS
- OPHELIA AND THE MARVELOUS BOY
- GAME OVER, PETE WATSON
- Dragon Keepers #3: The Dragon in the Library
At least these are the ones I know
about…I may be missing a few as you sometimes just read and I don’t notice and
then I say “Spotty, why don’t you read “xxx” and you go “I read that awhile ago”.
Or the stuff you read in school. Your
teacher let you all take home a book and a couple of magazines if you wanted
the last day of school. You brought home “Fudgeamania” by Judy Blume. I said “oh
are you going to read that?” And you replied “I already read this. In fact this
was maybe my most favorite book I have read.” Really? It’s one of your most
favorite and I had no idea. YOU are growing up far too fast my boy. We are also listening to the Hobbit on CD and
I am reading you The Familiars #3: Circle of Heroes.
Well two weeks into Summer and you
are really into the swing of things. I couldn’t be happier. You are an amazing
individual. Love ya kiddo
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