Purple Carrots

I made a really cool blue carrot with play dough. My mom told me that she read somewhere that carrots were originally (that means "their real story") purple so we looked it up and found this picture. Then we read about purple carrots and discovered that carrots were first purple, white, black, red or even green! Then in Holland (my mom says that's in Europe, she showed me on a map) they started growing orange carrots because that was their color (my mom says their nation's or country's color). I thought that was cool! How did they do that anyway?

Keep wearing jeans! Len

I tried to upload my picture of the blue carrot I made but it was way too big. We'll try again later...:(

Unfreeze Me Please

Chapter 1

Once upon a time there was a man who lived in a small cottage. Everyday he walked three miles and as he walked he whittled with a carving knife. One day he walked and he walked and he walked. He walked 30 miles, not 3! And he saw a big, big building. Way bigger than his small cottage. He read a sign in the front that said, "Welcome To Mia's Museum" and to go in it cost $15. The man had exactly $15. He went into the museum, paid the money and walked in. He looked to his right and saw a glass case that showed a caveman inside. He then looked to his left and he saw an Indian also in a glass case. The Indian said to the man, "Bop the caveman on the head!" The man said, "How do I do that?" "Take out your knife and break the glass. Bop him on the head with your hand!" The man broke the glass and bopped the caveman on the head. And then suddenly the caveman blinked. His head turned. He started walking toward the man...

Chapter 2

The caveman said, "akdsjf;ladkjsfaoiuf!" The Indian said, "Don't listen to him!" The man said okay. The Indian said, "Now break my glass case and bop me on the head." He wanted to come alive and move, too. So the man broke the glass with his carving knife and bopped him on the head. The Indian walked to him, looked at him and smiled.

Chapter 3

Then the man looked behind him and he saw a dinosaur. The man said, "Okay...should I bop him on the head?" The Indian said, "No! He will attack all of us." The man then did not trust the Indian so he broke the glass case for the T-Rex. The Indian grabbed his carving knife, took it away from him and said, "No!! I told you, he will kill all of us." The man turned and his hand then accidentally slipped and he pushed the dinosaur. The dinosaur fell down which shook the ground. A light from the ceiling then fell onto the dinosaur's head! The dinosaur blinked...(scary music plays...da da dum...)

Chapter 4

He looked in front of him and he saw a woolly mammoth. He broke the glass case hard with his fist and climbed up his tusk and bopped him on the head. The woolly mammoth turned his head, his tusk looked sharp, sharper than the man's carving knife. The woolly mammoth started running towards the T-Rex. And, Bam! They hit each other and the T-Rex fell to the ground.

Chapter 5

The T-Rex was dead. The woolly mammoth was also badly injured and he suddenly fell to the ground and was dead. The man looked around and couldn't find the Indian or the caveman. He was surprised and didn't know what to do.

To be continued...

Movie release date: August 31, 2009

These Are The Words I Can Read...

dog cat ready two the yoyo tv and welcome little make rug jug fan man can boom! money$ book at an pan jam nut bug woman burp! poop pee mom dad sam max it is in

I will add to this list later because I am learning new words all the time. My mom is typing this sentence and I can read almost every word but it is harder to spell them.

My Friend Andrew

My friend Andrew like pretzels. His favorite color is black. He is a ghost. He is also a policeman and he is from Africa. He died because one day he visited this house where Frankenstein lived and all these other scary guys. Frankenstein didn't like him because Andrew was a human so he stabbed him and now Andrew is a ghost. He didn't want to be near Frankenstein so he came to Guam. His parents are still alive and they cannot find Andrew-- it is a mystery.

One time we went to Australia together. Another time we went to Antarctica and saw another friend who is a wolf and his mother. Andrew's eyes are blue but when he is really mean his eyes turn red. We eat lot of pretzels together. Andrew is fun and my mom doesn't mind him in the house but one time he was looking at people in the shower so my mom had to have a talk with him and now he doesn't do that any more. He can stay but he has to be good.

Here is a picture I took of Andrew. He looks a little like me but he is African.

Keep wearing jeans, Len

Arts and Crafts

I have been making a lot of things lately. One of the things I wanted to make was a diorama (not diareha!) so my mom and I looked for a shoe box to use but could not find one (thought we could go out and buy shoes for someone so that we could use the box but my mom said we didn't have enough money to do that) so instead we used an old empty oatmeal container which is long and round. My mom cut part of it open and then we taped the cover to the bottom so that it would not roll around. Then we got some photos of outside pictures to use as a background from an old National Geographic magazine (is it okay to cut out pictures from National Geographic magazine?my mom wants to know). I then looked through a old workbook for pictures that I liked and cut those out. They weren't very strong to stand on their own so my mom suggested that I glue the pictures to some construction paper to make them stronger. Then we glued our background to the oatmeal container and added our pictures. I liked how it turned out. I can't really play with it but it was fun to make!

Yesterday my mom and I were driving in our car and I looked up at the sky and saw some beautiful clouds. I showed my mom and we said that they looked a lot like cotton balls. Then I got an idea for a collage that I could make using cotton balls and construction paper(my favorite!). I thought it would be cool to make a picture of a pig sitting in a mud puddle. My mom and I talked about different ways that pigs can look (have you ever seen a stripped pig?) and we also talked about how smart pigs are (as smart as a three year old like my little cousin Noelle) and how people could keep pigs as pets. But we also thought that it wouldn't be so great to have a pig as a pet because it would run around your house and head butt you a lot! My mom said she thought that some animals just are happier outside in the wild. So this morning I made my collage. It was fun and I got a little crazy with the glue (in my mom's opinion).

Here are some pictures I took of my projects. Hope you like them. I'll post more about other projects later. Keep wearing jeans--Len