Leaving for Mexico!

Well, I'm about to embark on my trip around the world with mommy and daddy!  We leave for Mexico in the next few days.  It's been a very exciting and very emotional couple of weeks.  I've said goodbye to my friends and family and now I'm trying to get my room clean and stowed away for sea.  Well actually, mommy is doing that.  I'm watching cartoons.

Mommy says to hang in there with us, keeping up with two blogs is harder than she expected.  Evidently we won't have access to internet as much as she would like so it may be further between posts.  I'll leave you with some of my favorite pictures from the last month.

This is at K-Surplus (a boat place daddy likes to go)... I found lots of "treasure."

Playing my new harmonica.  I hope to be really good at it by the time we get back.  Mommy says it will be part of my music lessons.

Playing on the playground near our boat on Shelter Island.

Wish us luck (and a few prayers would be appreciated).  Check out mommy's blog to the right to follow our travels!

School's out!

Apologies to everyone for my delayed posting.  Mommy has been busy trying to keep our sailing blog up to date and she's been hogging the computer.

Well, I'm an official drop out!  My last day was really fun and a little bit sad.  My class and teachers made me a really cool collage with pictures of everyone and they all signed a card for me and wrote some really nice things.  I'm going to miss my friends and teachers.  Hopefully they'll be following our sailing blog and maybe even send me an email now and then.  In the meantime, mommy has been ensuring that I'm still learning.  We haven't officially started the curriculum she bought yet, but we've been doing math, reading and other fun things since I've been home.  I'm making a lot of progress on my phonics and my speech.  I made the "l" sound the other day clear as a bell.  Mommy says the key is to keep practicing.

We also took a trip to GA to visit my cousins and lots of friends.  I LOVE playing with Carter and Caitie.  Mommy says I'm a good mix of both of them.  Here are lots of pictures.  Caitie and I were silly together pretty much the whole time.  Carter taught me how to play the wii (mommy says thanks).
We drove all over the place to see some of mommy's friends and say bye.  I got to play with Riley, Olivia, Emily, Ali, and Tyler and had my first two sleepovers!

 

We only have a few more weeks before we leave on our sailboat.  There are lots of things to do to prepare to sail around the world.  Mommy talks about these on the other blog but I thought I would give my perspective on one thing in particular...shots.  You have to get LOTS of shots to travel around the world.  I started to get mine yesterday.  I tried to be a big boy, but when they pulled out those needles I forgot all about being brave.  I'll admit it...I screamed like a baby.  They even had to have someone hold me down because mommy wasn't strong enough.  When it was all over, mommy got me ice cream (she got some too since she had shots as well).  I thought all was good as I was laying on the sofa watching cartoons.  I got up to do something and OUCH!!!  My legs didn't work.  Mommy said one of the shots I got does that.  It's tomorrow already and they're still hurting!   By the time I can walk right again, it will be time to go back.  I am not looking forward to that.

We're getting ready for a going away party so I have to go help mommy clean.  I'll try to post again before we leave.

Sunny Sunday

Only four more days of school!!!  Seriously, Mommy quit her job and Daddy is retired, so I only have four more days of school before mommy becomes my teacher.  I'm so happy that I'm starting to act a little crazy.  Mommy says we're leaving for our sailing trip really soon.  April 18.  We're going to a place called Isla Guadeloupe first.  It has two volcanos and great white sharks.  I love both!  In preparation, mommy let me repaint my volcano today on the bow of the boat.  

Mommy says I'm growing like a weed.  I'm really smart too.  I know lots of things like John Glen was the first American to orbit the earth.  He went around three times.  Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first men to walk on the moon.  Michael Collins was driving the command module and doesn't get much credit, but if it wasn't for him, they would still be walking on the moon!  A very cool thing that happened this week was that we met the Navy Photographer that used to pick up the astronauts from the water.  He actually documented the pickup of Alan Shepherd!  His name is Dave and he lives two boats down from us.

I've used up most of my words tonight, but I do have some new pictures.  Enjoy!

Daddy is teaching me to drive the dinghy.

Daddy had a retirement party at the beach.  I convinced mommy and Miss Nicole to cover me up like a submarine.  That green stuff on the back is seaweed!

Mr. Eric, Miss Nicole, Mommy and Daddy

My Vacation to Oklahoma

I just got home from a week long vacation in Oklahoma visiting my Papa and Grandma Mac.  Daddy drove his truck out to leave with Papa and Mommy and I flew there a few days later.  I had so much fun!  I got to play with my cousins Jamie and Luke and all of my aunts and uncles.  I especially like my Uncle Colby.  He likes to play as much as I do.  

We did lots of things...played in the snow, went to Granddad's house and played lots of games, drove in the snow to eat pizza and play pool, and baked a cake for Mommy's birthday.  Well, technically, aunt Sarah did that, but us kids got to help.

Here's a picture of my Uncle Colby and I making snowballs.

The picture above is when Luke, Jamie and I were playing spaceship.  This is our spaceship.  Luke and Jamie are driving while I'm catching up on some much needed rest before I take over.

Here are pictures of both mommy and daddy with my aunts Sarah and Shannon.  I have a very smart (and busy) family.  My aunt Sara is a teacher, basket ball coach, golf coach and a mommy.  And that's just what I know about.  My aunt Shannon is a doctor.  She works a whole lot and studies a lot too.  Mommy says that's what I'm going to have to do if I want to be an astronaut.

Mommy said this isn't the most flattering picture she's ever taken, but I liked it so I put it up here anyway.

It may be a while before we see everyone again.  I'm really glad I got the chance to see them all before we leave on our sailing trip.  Aunt Sarah says she's coming to visit us in Figi!  Hopefully it won't be too long...

My school had a Winter Gala this past month.  This is my best friend Chyrisma.  We sang a song about Suzie Snowflake. We practiced every single day.   Mommy said my class was one of the best.  Mommy and daddy both came and cheered me on.  I'm thinking of trying out or American Idol as soon as I'm old enough.  I think Simon would like me.

Daddy has been working on our new refrigerator for quite some time, so mommy decided to give him a day to himself and take me to the Science Museum.  We were almost there and it was a very pretty day after a weeks worth of constant rain...mommy asked me, zoo or museum??  My first response was Museum ( I really wanted to see the Imax)!!!  Then I changed my mind and said Zoo (Mommy has never been to this Zoo)!!!  And mommy made a hard right and there we went.  It was fantastic.  We saw the new baby panda, giraffes, hippos, elephants (my personal favorite), rhinos, you name it!   We walked so much, we had to take bus ride.  I was super tired afterwards and went straight to sleep.

Mommy says I have to tell you what's new in my brain these days....well, I learned about the water cycle - water falls down, sun heats it up, it evaporates, gets cold again and rains!!!  I love to imagine things...everything has something to do with space.  I like to pretend all of the boats on the dock are actually Lunar Modules and we're all in space.  Daddy and I take long walks on the moon.  Mommy and I eat dried up moon bagels many mornings before I got to space preschool.

That's about it....space, space, space,...... submarine.

Oh yeah...daddy made a movie...be on the look out   "I am that man"...Summer 2010...more to come.

Weekend with Gigi and Papa

Daddy is out of town for a couple of weeks so mommy and I thought it would be fun to spend a weekend with Gigi and Papa.  Papa wasn't feeling very good (Mommy said the doctors had to "reboot" him) so we decided to go up a few days early to take his and Gigi's mind off of things.  I think it worked!  We spent a day at a place called Long Beach.  Take a look at the pictures and see for yourself.

 We took a tour on a boat into the Harbor and got to see some sea lions being lazy on an old barge.

There was a submarine that Papa let me ride.  He put quarters in three times for me!  I saw all kinds of deep sea creatures when my submarine dove to the depths.  Angler fish, lantern fish, firefly squids....

Some guy had two iguanas that he was letting people pet.  You would think that it would feel rough, but it was really kind of soft.  Very cool.

All of that walking left my dogs tired.  I had to sit down and rest often.

So enough about my fun...mommy says I should tell everyone what I'm doing these days (since this blog is about me and my progress).  I still love space, deep sea divers and underwater creatures.  I'm particularly fascinated with Deep Sea creatures.  I like to watch shows on TV with daddy to learn more.  I also like to play video games on the computer when I'm really good and mommy is in a good mood.  I love puzzles.  My favorite is my space puzzle, but I got two new ones for Christmas that I really like too.  They're good because if you take them out of the box and put them in a big plastic bag, they can fit on the boat.  I can count to 40 with no problem.  Mommy has to remind me of 50, 60, 70, etc., but with a little help, I can get to 100!  I know all my letters and the sounds they make and I'm trying really hard to read.  I sounded out "water" the other day and "sun."  I know all the sounds, it's saying them fast together that stumps me.  I talk pretty good, but mommy says I need to work on my "L."  I love to make up stories and play them out while I'm supposed to be going to sleep at night. And I love to tell mommy how much smarter me and daddy are than her.  She could really learn a lot from us if she would just listen.

Mommy told me I should leave you with a little song...  but unfortunately, she's not able to upload videos anymore.  If you want to see it, Mommy said go to her Facebook page (Gigi, did you read that?) and she'll load it there.

I hope everyone has a fantastic week!