Ice skating

On Sunday, I went to the Skate Break. I wore hockey skates, and I had never worn hockey skates before. I was kind of good at the beginning, but by the end of the skate break, I could go really fast!

My friends Ethan, Mary Ren, Matthew and Diego skated with me, too. I did 50 to 100 laps, I think. After I skated, I went to the restaurant inside the skating rink and I had a hot dog and some really hot hot chocolate. I had a really great time!

You can go there if you go around the perimeter of Forest Park. How you know it's there is that there are huge ice chunks around it.

Rock climbing

Today, I went to my after-school class. It was rock climbing. I got to go on every column, and I got to the top four times. It was really fun.

I lost two teeth!

Last night, I went to the Galleria and my family and I went to Johnny Rocket's, and on my second bite of my hamburger my tooth came out!



Today, I lost another tooth. It was really wiggly, and I tried to pull it but it didn't go out. About 30 seconds later, I felt that my tooth had almost came out -- except for a bit of gum. So I pulled it and it came out!

SNOW DAY #2
Toaday I built a snowman, had three snowball fights, and went sleding! Last I drank HOT CHOCLATE!

Christmas

This Christmas I got a BUNCH of things! I went to Tucson, Arizona to visit Grammy and Grampy.

I got a new Nintendo DS game, Nintendogs. You get to buy your own dog or dogs. You start off with one and you can buy more, I have two Cutie and beegy You get more money by selling things you get on walks or buy things and then sell them. But if you buy things and then sell them you get LESS money than you did before. When you have enough money you can go to the kennel and I can buy a Dalmation, Boxer, German Shepherd, Golden Retriever, Yorkshire Terrier, and Beagle. There are other Nintendog games: Chihuahua and Lab. The next Nintendog game I want to get is a Lab because I have a yellow lab at home.

I also got a hovering disk. It can fly all around the room, but only vertical.

My birthday was yesterday!

Yesterday, I went to the Science Center for my birthday. I turned eight yesterday. I invited two friends - Ethan
XXXXXX and Jack. Ethan gave me a set of snowmen that you can put paint in and make colorful paintings. He also gave me a book called "The Way the Universe Works" and last, he gave me a map of puzzles for the USA. Jack gave me the game, Risk.

I saw an OmniMax movie called "Greece." It was about ancient Greece. I went to the planetarium, and I saw a star show. It talked about the night sky and eclipses. I went to an exhibit called Lego MindStorms. You have to get your robot past obstacles and get some balls that a dragon is guarding, and you can either make light, box it, or shoot arrows at it, and you have to do all of that by programming it on a computer. But you don't program the dragon. We also made an arch out of blocks, and I kicked the arch down on my friends ... but they wanted it to fall on them, so that's actually OK.

When I got home, my dad taught me how to play Risk, and I won that game! And my presents were a red sleeping bag (from Grandma and Grandpa Ray), a Yahtzee Turbo (from Aunt Kristen and Uncle Brayer), a football (from my little brother), some collectable coins (from Grandma Jayne), some clothes, a book and a 3-D wooden puzzle of the Empire State Building (from Uncle Ian and Aunt Kathy), and Grammy and Grampy will let me pick one thing from anywhere we go for a souvenir. We're going to Arizona tomorrow. When I get back, we are going to buy a new bicycle for me from Mom and Dad.

Learning about a science experiment in science

When I was in science today, Mr. Sawyer (my science teacher) taught me a science experiment. If you want, you can do this at home.

What you need is a piece of brown paper and some food. You put the food on the brown paper and press on it firmly, but don't squish the food. Then take the food off the paper and if the brown paper is see-through, that means it has fat in it. If it has a liquid that seems to evaporate over time, that means it doesn't have any fat in it.

I might tell you more experiments as my food studies go on in science. Because in science, Mr. Sawyer said we will be doing a lot of experiments on food.