The Mystery Hours of Plants Growing

The Monster Mash Comes to Life

2010-11-02T17:54:00.007-04:00

Meet Sebastian the zombie on the left and Dorian the vampire on the right.

We are all decked out in our Halloween gear for my Halloween birthday party. What a scream!

Oh no! Dracula's son is out to get you! Watch out for his bite attack!

Uh oh! Here comes Sebastian the zombie! Gonna get you!

Do you like double attacks? Cuz here comes one.

This game we're playing right now is called eyeball bounce. It was really fun playing it.

Here comes my first shot ready to bounce not roll. The object of the game is bounce ping pong balls that look like eyeballs into one of those nine jars over there. The small ones are 150 points, the ones in the middle are 100 points and the ones in the back are 50 points.

This is called Monster Lab. All you have to do is just draw a monster.

The way to draw it is pick a card out of a pumpkin bucket (no peeking) and whatever body part the card says you have to draw. For example, those creepy red eyes up there with the added eyebrows drawn by me I drew because when I picked the first time, my card was a slip of paper that said "EYES" so I had to follow the directions. I just want you to know that you should really watch out for those poisonous boogers coming out of its nose and the blood coming out of those warts won't give you a nice surprise when you touch them.

This is a Jack-O-Lantern cake. To make the mouth and eyes we used some sprinkles.

Yummy! I love cake! It tasted good. No, not good. Great. No, no great. Super great.

No, not super great. Super duper great.

No, not super duper great. Super duper alley ooper great.

This is called Brain Toss. See that white thing sticking out of it, it's a tongue. Just kidding. It's a brain.

I would call that a point because at least the bean bag brain got halfway in. Actually, nobody else threw a brain bean bag halfway in. Mom designed the zombie and I wonder how dad caught the picture of the brain in midair.

I was the one who won the game. Nobody else actually got all of the bean bag brains in the mouth.

I must say Dorian's Jack-O-Lantern turned out awesome.

I say that it's so cute that it's scary.

I say that it couldn't have come out that great without the help of dad.

I really like the yellow glow in that one. Actually that's my Jack-O-Lantern.

You cannot even see the outside of the pumpkin, you can only see the face of it.

I call that face "The Evil Glare Stare."

This is both of us in our costumes about to go outside for Halloween. We're making scary faces in this picture, right?

Yes but I'd rather say that in this picture we're "ready to strike." For candy that is.

The latest Paquette Pictures movies so far

2010-10-24T18:17:00.002-04:00

These are Dorian's 2 first movies and they're combined into one as well. And they're really cool!

I got this idea from my brother, but this time, I added more characters. They even have a pet turtle! And best of all, more treasure.

Ever thought of stuffed animals living, breathing and even attacking? Find out what happens in this movie!

A trip to Boston

2010-04-11T18:54:00.003-04:00

We went to Boston to visit our friend, Uncle Jim. We had fun. Of course we did! On the first day we were doing a little exploring around part of the city. We stopped to rest on some grass and dirt lifted up by some stone. We played a little game.

We were playing on the wall and grass and doing these courses or something. They're very great! We had fun playing. If you step on this blue thing you get an extra life or something.
I'm standing in front of the door of this place called "Sebastians." I'm standing in front of it because Sebastian is my name. We were surprised when we saw that name on the sign of places you can go in the subway station.

We took the subway to the kids' museum, of course.

In this picture, we're in the net maze. It's really fun. Yeah, I like it.

I'm pretending I'm lifting Sebastian up in this big truck. There are lots of levers. I'm pretending one is down and one is up. And Sebastian's lying down like he's dead. Well, maybe. I'm not dead.

We're playing the steel drums. I wish we had one at home.

We're standing with Quack. He's a guy in Peep in the Big, Wide World. We got to play with water in Peep's World. There was a faucet with a bucket that swung when there was too much water in it. There was this spoon thing that lifted the water up when it came to the bottom, and when it came to the right side it puts down the water back and it keeps going.

We're in Arthur World right now. This is a picture of the TV that shows anybody in front of this video camera in the room and it shows us on the TV with Arthur stuff. It looked like we were standing in front of the Arthur stuff, but basically, we're in front of a green wall. It was cool to see ourselves on TV. Yeah.

I felt sad that we were leaving Boston. Me too. I really was gonna miss Uncle Jim. At the beginning, it was nice to see Uncle Jim again.

Making Bill in Notebookland

2010-03-07T18:49:00.003-05:00

"Bill in Notebookland" is the first of a series of animated shorts by Paquette Pictures with a soundtrack on my first album, Amps & Microkeyboards. The shorts are animated in order of the songs. I hope you enjoy the movie!

Winter carnival time

2010-02-22T19:19:00.004-05:00

I was picked for the first ride on a dog sled. I felt really good, but kind of sad because Dorian couldn't do it. It was really a fun ride for me and the other kid who went with me. There had to be 2 people per sled. The sleds were really decorated and really cool. I got 4 bags and Dorian got only 2 in the candy chase, so I gave Dorian a bag of candy.

A candy chase is when you try to get this candy. It's outside at Memorial Park. It's on the ground-- the candy is. It's a really fun thing. Last time, I didn't get any candy until some guys gave me some. And me and Sebastian both got to have candy. We got to sled down the hill, of course.

Winter Time Fun! (Snowmen)

2010-01-18T18:17:00.005-05:00

In this picture you can see we are with this snowman and it doesn't really have a carrot nose, just a wood nose. And it's smoking a pipe. We made it out of a set we got, I think, last winter. It was fun making the snowmans.

This is one we mainly decorated out of plastic Easter egg parts. In this picture you can see I'm wearing a super suit. It has like these robots two together and then another set two together.Mom made the snowman's face --look mean!-- all out of things you eat. The eyes are apricots, it has a carrot nose, and a Brazil nut mouth. We wanted to make a mean face.

This is our snow fort we made. This afternoon it all crumbled up and I don't know where all those buried snowballs I made are. They probably are under the blocks of snow that we used to partly make the wall of the fort. It's very cool, I think. And it's very fancy, I think. I think it crumbled because it was so hot outside today. And the snow fort was so cool that I thought we were not only, like, carpenters, we also seemed like architects.

Crocodiles

2010-01-14T09:57:00.001-05:00

This is a movie and it's called "Newsstand" anyway. The title of the post is called "Crocodiles". It's a fun movie. I hope you watch it. Dorian Paquette wrote the song.

Art on Friday

2010-01-09T14:49:00.002-05:00

Right in the picture you can see some of the artwork that I made for the show. The title of my artwork was called, "Sights from inside a reconfigured UFO." Mine was called "Mocha"-- yeah, yeah yeah! Sarah made a really cool piece of artwork and I like it because it has a bird swinging and clouds hanging in front of a background made of sewn together fabric of all different kinds. I think one of them was the kind that makes jeans.

Do you see in this picture that I'm waving 2 fingers?

There were 3 people that I saw looking at mine and Dorian's artwork and liked it. We had a conversation about what our artwork was called and what's in the pictures and how long it really took to make it and how much money it cost. Mine cost $78.94. Mine was $11 and no cents. I think that somebody will probably buy mine because it has so much stuff in it but I partly doubt it because it cost so much money that they'll have to have a lot of money to buy the whole thing. I want to have a whole show sometime-- just my artwork. I'm a good artist, you know.

Love ya!

The White Pants Unite!

2009-12-30T16:47:00.002-05:00

This is a practice of The White Pants. Me and my brother Dorian and my friend Lydia and my friend Archer are in it. Those are all the people in The White Pants.

Busy December Days

2009-12-28T14:27:00.003-05:00

We were both in pictures and in the first one Alfred said, "Cheeseburger!" and in the second one he said, "Spaghetti and Meatballs!" That's what he said. I asked Santa for a 12 footed robot. I asked Santa for a Hershey's big bar and an orange.

I'm making this gingerbread guy. I didn't like the dark blue jelly bean.

I'm making a red and green gingerbread guy. We were doing it where we got to visit Santa and the place where Open Gym is held.

This is a picture from the snow day we had, luckily. I was waiting for a snow day from school. Finally, I got one. That's when we were out in the snow. I love it! We're behind a hill in partly our yard, partly the neighbor's yard.

This is a picture from the gingerbread party. Mine is the one which says "Shack O' Fun" and you probably know that because you can hardly see my blondish hairdo right near it. Lydia made the one that says "Ho-Ho Manor" and Riley's has an "R" on it I don't think you can see because it's not in the picture.
Christmas morning has finally come! Yeah, I liked it when I got that big Hershey's bar. And stuff. And stuff.

Sebastian, did Santa bring what you asked for? No. Grandma did. One of my favorite presents is my name made of wood. I put it on my bass drum. And I'm gonna keep it there when I'm drumming in the band. One of my favorite things is for the whole family: a chocolate orange. And it's cool that I really got what I wanted: a book called "The Christmas Cat"-- it's not what I wanted, but I like it. Daddy got something that is really cool-- chewy, double-flavored Lemonhead and friends. Dorian got a deep diver. I just love Christmas. It's one of my favorite holidays.

Crystal Minding Mining

2009-12-08T18:17:00.005-05:00

I'm smashing this. It's called plaster. I'm trying to get all the crystals out. We had to wear a apron and we had to put the plaster on paper so it wouldn't go all over the table and it was fun. It was the first time I had my own. And Dad helped me and also we did some teamwork.

There's, like, a lot of plaster in this one and if you look, like, a little at the bottom you can see a crystal that we were trying to get out. I think it was the one we would get out the next day.

This one has paper with all the crystals on it. We got all of them out. There were 9 crystals. It said there were 8 on the thing. There's just 4 of us in this family, you know.

We had to use this brush and we got out the crystals from the water and we just scrubbed it off. I remember some of them. Two ones have "quartz" in them: rose quartz and clear quartz. But I forgot the other ones. It was fun getting out it. I think the clear quartz look very blank because they have no color.

I have this pouch, a magnifying glass, a brush and a hammer to do it. In this one, I'm holding the pouch. Dustin and Cortney gave this to me. Thanks, Dustin and Cortney! It was great! I thought it was really fun.

Happy Thanksgiving!

2009-11-26T18:00:00.001-05:00

Birthday fun

2009-11-23T16:21:00.006-05:00

[On November 7, for the boys' birthday present, we took them to the Montshire Museum for some science fun.]

We were on a balcony at the top picture. We haven't never been to the Montshire Museum and that was the first time we went there. We could see the park way down below. It was cool! I couldn't wait to go there after the fun inside.

This is the fog room. I got to stick my head down into a big pit of the fog. It felt a bit warm, but damp. There was also a yellow tube I could hold up and the fog would all spray out. It looked cool!

We were trying to make this dinosaur. We got to learn about paleontologists at this part. We like going on big adventures. This was a big, long day to go here at the Montshire Museum. We had fun. It was hard trying to make the dinosaur, but I finally got to finish it. It's kind of like a one-legged guy who's looking backwards while it's hopping.

[On November 14, we had a birthday party for the boys.]

Cake! Yummy old frosty candy old cake! Yummy yummy licorice, yummy yummy starbursts, yummy yummy m&ms. Yummy yummy cake! After a few days, I got to have some of the cake with ice cream for dessert. It's delicious!

Cake time is now! Let's have some cake! If you look at the top of the picture, you might think that we're sitting around a campfire. But if you think that, that's the wrong answer. It's really the candle flames on the cake.
Lydia! I love Lydia! We were playing "Pin the Machinery and Buttons on the Robot". I was 7 and I got one of the antennae on correctly with a blindfold, but I was surprised when I saw 8 year old Archer suddenly just stick the wire with the plug on backwards. It looked really silly. Another silly part of the game was when Dorian's friend Skyler stuck a button on upside down.

This is Cozmo and us. Cozmo is a robot. Dad and Sebastian made it. Sebastian made the buttons and Cozmo and screen and stuff like that. Dad made the feet and the body and arms and head-- like, that stuff. Cozmo is the completed robot that we made. If you look on the upper part of his body, you might see his name on the nameplate.

Field trip

2009-11-06T08:50:00.003-05:00

I went to a field trip. I went to Stonewall Farm. We went to see this thing called the Great Pumpkin. The Great Pumpkin was sleeping when we got there. There were these rug seats you got to sit on. We yelled, "Wake up, Great Pumpkin!" The Great Pumpkin told us a story. When she was done, we got to pollinate the flowers-- the pumpkin flowers.

I'm pollinating a flower in this picture. They are yellow.
We got these pumpkins. We're gonna make a sweet snack with our pumpkins. At snack, we had apple cider and pumpkin cookies. I had fun eating the snack.

This picture we got to pick two apples and put them into this apple cider press. It didn't work out so fine, but there was this other thing. You had to push down this black thing and it would make the apple cider. It was attached.

The end. That's it.

Halloween

2009-11-02T16:09:00.002-05:00

I was a mad scientist. I got a test tube that looked like it was glowing. And I got the idea because I liked stuff like mad scientists and also, I'm going to be a mad scientist when I grow up so that was the whole point of it. And then Dad put some big black splotches of face paint and bits of red so it looked like something exploded in front of me.
I was a skeleton. I got this whole idea. There was some face paint to make a whole skeleton. There's no red on a skeleton. Skeletons do not have red blood. Sometimes they do. Well, I like Trick or Treating. I got some Starbursts and a brown bag of m&ms. I like Trick or Treating on Halloween.
We had a whole crowd of people Trick or Treating with us. They were Archer and his family, Quinn and Amelia, and their parents, and Lucy's friend Lily and her mother the second grade teacher at my school, Pam Maile. Lucy had a different color of ours: pink.

We made a candy town! This is the picture of Sebastian's part. He made a passage way. I didn't really make a passage way but I made a lot of buildings. We had fun making our town out of candy.

Getting ready for Halloween

2009-10-31T15:12:00.003-04:00

I was carving my pumpkin in the dining room. It was very great and then mom did it again. My whole family is me, Dorian, Allison, Sebastian and Jeremy. Sebastian made a pumpkin, too. Sebastian's one was smaller than mine. I like making pumpkins! Very great.

My pumpkin is named "Guy Smiley." Tonight, Trick or Treat!

I liked carving my pumpkin. I liked it because Dad was helping me out and I got to learn a lot of cool stuff about how to carve your pumpkin. For example, he taught me how to saw with the kiddie knife.

My pumpkin is named "Sicko" 'cause he's always sick. Because everywhere he goes he suddenly gets ill from a bunch of diseases. I was gonna add a bunch of flesh coming out of its mouth so it would look like it was puking. I'm gonna do that to make it really look sick right before we go Trick or Treating.

Happy Halloween!

Dancing, and how to make racing snails in a few small and easy steps

2009-10-24T14:49:00.003-04:00

First, get an about 40cm wooden board (or 16 inches if you like to measure it differently). Then, color it green with oil pastels.

Then get all the parts you see on this picture (sorry, we forgot to put a spool of wire in this photo, but if you don't have any you can get some).

Then, you remember those steel cable straps from the last picture, don't you? Well, those are for the snail bodies. But we'll get back to that later. Now, you have to put one of those straps onto a part of the board-- any part you like. Also, you can put them in any order. Now, get 3 lock nuts and punch holes in some safety tape and stick them onto the lock nuts. (Two on each one.) And put dots on them to make eyes. Then screw a metal washer onto each of the lock nuts but don't start screwing until you have put on a wing nut on top of it to make antennae. After that the final thing in this step is to twist in with a wrench a screw eyelet on the opposite side of the cable strap.

Next, put a small silver bell inside the small snail. But you can put in a gold one if it fits. Tie it on with wire. Then, put some nail polish over the knot. For the bigger ones, color some metal washers on one of them and use at least three. Then, do the same thing with the wire and nail polish. Finally, find a small aluminum disc and do the exact same thing once again with the wire and nail polish. The bell will ring when the wind comes. Also when the wind comes, the aluminum disc will spin and the washers will clang together.

The snails are gonna be really cool as soon as you make them. Making it is fun! And it's also fun to look at them and enjoy it. Now here's a cool movie about Dorian dancing:

I love doing dancing movies! They're really good. Mom makes movies of me doing the dance moves on the camera. I saw it. It was a good dance move. It's really good doing dance moves on my movies. It's a good dance move and it makes you good exercise. It's great when you really have energy-- a lot of energy-- you're really good to make you play outside for a little time. It makes me good and feel cozy. I like it!

My field trip

2009-10-02T11:01:00.002-04:00

One day, I went to a field trip at Green Mountain Orchard and we got to have a hay ride.

It was fun! The hay ride went all around the farm. Yes, it did! It was a fun ride. I got to sit next to Jack. After the hay ride, we got to have snack. It was apple cider to drink and cider doughnuts. They were really good. Well, I didn't want to really drink the cider, so Emmett's mom threw it in the grass. Then it was great.
I love picking apples. We picked some on the field trip, you know. I liked picking the apples for the apple pie.

It was great. Yummy yum yum yum. I love apples!

Labor Day News

2009-09-07T18:50:00.002-04:00

The Labor Day news for today is that I have just learned to ride my bike on only 2 wheels. Lucky me! Was it easy or was it hard work to learn? It was easy. Yeah. It's really easy.

Dorian

2009-09-01T19:06:00.002-04:00

Dorian is my name. I like going to West Bee nursery school. Next Monday it will be a holiday and Dad and Sebastian will stay home. And it will be very fun on that day. What should we do? It's gonna be fun-- I'm just telling you.

I do recess and I put my bee up and lots of things. Hunter is one of my friends and he's a good boy. And I listen to my teachers. And I do lots of stuff there but one thing I don't do is this [throws his giraffe blanket in the air]-- there's no pillows and blankets there. It's really fun there and there's 3 teachers there. And I love my mama.

The End. That's it.

On a Summer Day, It's Time to Play!

2009-08-27T17:24:00.000-04:00

Hairdo to hairdo

2009-08-23T19:27:00.002-04:00

What's going on with your hair, Dorian? Look at my fluffy hairdo! Do you think it is very crazy in my hair?

Look at our hairdos. Both of ours are all messy, but soon you'll see what happened in only a half hour. So it probably only took 15 minutes each.

This is a great day! I love my hairdo! It's crazy and funny. I think we look very handsome.

The Trip to Six Flags

2009-08-18T19:15:00.002-04:00

Going to Six Flags was really fun. That's what I was gonna say. These are 3 of my favorite rides: Captain Feathersword's Rockin' Pirate Ship, The Hot Air Balloon Chase, and The Big Red Planes. Did you go on all of them? I did go on those 3, that's why I said that. No! Did you go on all of them? All the rides in the whole 6 Flags? Yeah. No, I didn't. Because some of those were a bit too scary. And another one of my favorites was the Take Me to Your Leader Rocket Ride.

I went on most of them with Dad. One I had to go on myself was the Harold Helicopters from Thomas Town. But I had to go with Dad on the Bertie Bus 'cause I was a bit scared at first. One more thing-- if you go on there and you feel like you are gonna get your stomach sick, just scream! And make the thing stop. No, Dorian! Don't say that! Only if you feel like you're gonna fall out and bonk your head, make the thing stop.

And my meal was like all fast food. I had bottled water with a hot dog, french fries and onion rings.

Santa's Land

2009-08-18T18:12:00.004-04:00

I am pretending on the sled of Santa's Land. Whee! This is fun! I'm actually sitting on a bench. Silly me!

I'm putting a letter in Santa's mailbox. I wrote "Santa" on it. I think he's getting it out today.

Yummy yummy yum! I love this ice cream. It's chocolate!

Why we went to Santa's Land is I wanted to find all the elves but one of them were missing. It was the one in the elf house. Sebastian and Daddy were at 6 Flags that day. Well, I had fun at Santa's Land, you know. It was really really really fun. Muchy duchy so. It was a really fun day there.

The End. That's it.

At the beach

2009-08-09T16:18:00.008-04:00

We liked going to the beach. It was really fun going to the beach. We liked it. I mean, we loved it!

Look, I'm just sitting in the sand for a while.

We are on the Beach Plum crab sittin' for a while. Right? Yes, but you mean lobster. You get ice cream at the Beach Plum. How much ice cream? A lot.

Yeah, there's Milky Way. And you are having gum. Bubble gum? Yeah, but I don't like bubble gum. "Can I please have the Milky Way?" I said when I got there. My ice cream was alright but it kept dripping. And it was filled with all these tiny pieces of gum that I finally couldn't stand. So, Mom had to throw my ice cream away.
Sebastian is doing the shooting gallery. You have to shoot these targets and the things do different kinds of animation. Like, the ghost lights up. And the piano player plays a piano. Two of them. Yeah.
This is the puppet show I was watching. It maked everything do stuff. It was very fun watching it. It had a song in it. It went, "Old MacDonald had a farm..." and so on.

Whee! I'm riding on Dad's shoulders. It was very fun, but when we went to Seagull Island it was high tide, so we had to go back. Dad almost stubbed his toe on a rock.

I'm sittin' on the rock here, but it may look like I'm walking on water with part of my bottom on a rock. He looks very cool in that picture. Thank you, Dorian.

I'm jumping really high. Well, I was jumping the waves. That's what I was doing. I liked going boogie boarding at the beach. It felt good.

We are at Little Island. Little Island is a very small island near Plover Point. We named all of them.

Soccer Camp

2009-07-31T12:17:00.003-04:00

I liked soccer camp. The coaches' names were Greg and Dan. The things that we get if we do something good are green cards. Friday, July 31st was my graduation. I got my ball signed by Coach Greg, I got an activity magazine, and I got this soccer evaluation. I got my own soccer ball with my name on it.

We got to do, like, some soccer practices. We played a fun game called "Spiderman". And another fun game was called "Body Parts". We did a lot of dribbling. My attitude participation said it was excellent and the coaches didn't even know I had Lyme disease! I want to do soccer again!

I'm playing soccer with Julia, but Julia said it was hers and Lily's soccer ball. But she was wrong. She was playing it with me. She didn't know it was just hers.

Pickles

2009-07-22T15:28:00.002-04:00

The day we made pickles, it was great. I had an orange pen that was Mom's but she shared them. Sebastian had a green. We made whole pickles, pickle spears and pickle chips. It was a great day making pickles. We even put the labels on it. I can't wait to eat those pickles! The pickle chips... I want to eat them first. The pickles that we like are good, but the pickle chips are from Friendly's. They weren't very different than the pickles at the store. When are we going to try them? 2 days? 2 mumfs? 2 weeks! We decided we're going to try them when we go to the ocean. I think they'll be good!

Dressing up

2009-07-19T18:38:00.003-04:00

This is what Jeremy and I woke up to this morning:

I'm dressed up as a super hero. I don't know what I'm dressed up as. It's a great day to dress up. This is called "dressing up". Do you want to talk, Sebastian? Yes. I love dressing up. You just like to make crazy outfits or what? [in unison] Crazy outfits!

This is me dressed up and I'm very silly. What are you wearing? A knight hat, a cape, a bracelet, a belt and I'm in my underwear. One of my outfits that isn't in a picture is that I, like, had a Santa hat and a Santa beard held by an elephant trunk and a robot suit.

Track and field

2009-07-19T18:25:00.003-04:00

We did a lot of things at track and field: relays, running a mile, and a few games. I really liked it. My favorite event was relays. My favorite event here is taking a bath. Track and field is at the high school.

I liked playing "Lemonade" there. This is how you play it. There are 2 groups of people. One group steps forward and says, "Here we come." The other steps forward and says, "Where from?" The first steps forward again and says where they're from. The second steps forward again and says, "What's your trade?" The first steps forward again and says, "Lemonade." The second steps forward and says, "Show us if you're not afraid." Then the first stays where they are and acts out what they decided to be. And the second tries to guess it. And when they get it right they chase after the first group of people and whoever they tag goes on their team. You can act out anything: robots, an animal, super-powered ultra-evil zombie nerds... super heroes... etc.

The Fourth of July

2009-07-05T19:17:00.005-04:00

We were dancing at Lake Spofford. We were dancing on a stump to some music nearby at a house near the beach. It was playing many different songs. It was playing a lot of songs. And here's a movie of us:

At Ben and Laura's house Dad and Sebastian and me were playing pool. And how to play it is: you poke these things at the balls and try to get the numbered balls in the holes. We were also playing Ping Pong which is also known as table tennis. And we were playing it a lot of times.

We found a moth in a cage when we put a caterpillar in it. Allison found the caterpillar. We put the caterpillar in the cage and waited. Then, it made a cocoon. A few days later, we saw the moth pop out which was on the 4th of July.

This is a picture of a basket full of cucumbers, tomatoes and peas. They came from our garden. I ate a cucumber and a tomato for dinner. They were delicious! Mmm-mmm. And those cucumbers are not ordinary cucumbers, they are pickling cucumbers. And it was fun being at Ben and Laura's house on the 4th of July.

The End. That's it.

The Adventures at Mme. Sherri Forest

2009-06-28T10:02:00.004-04:00

We went to Mme. Sherri Forest on June 27th, 2009. We saw a lot of fungi and animals there. And we were down at the pond, we were on the rocks, and we pretended the rocks was a spaceship.

We saw a lot of frogs. Here are just a few of them. They were great! Fantastic! They were just hopping around. Some of them were mating, too. What does mating mean? I can't really explain it.

This is Indian pond. I like going with Daddy to the Indian pond. I saw 3 beaver dams. I'm 3!

We are at the Sherri Forest house that broke a little bit. A lot a bit. We were going in the house a lot. We saw a snake in the house. A garter snake. It looked scary. At least it wasn't a king cobra. Cuz those ones really make you die. I liked being at Mme. Sherri Forest.

My camp time

2009-06-22T13:37:00.002-04:00

One June morning, I went to mini-camp. They said it was called mini-camp. Usually we don't do parachute time. It was a great time there. Nicole was there. And the other counselors weren't at my real camp. But I think they'll be there next time. Or maybe it will just be Nicole.

I played parachute time. It was a very fun day there. I played and made a craft and lots of stuff.

The End. That's it.

The play

2009-06-22T13:22:00.002-04:00

Me and my brother Dorian were putting on a play. I was Spaceman Spiff. I was the Thing. You see, Spaceman Spiff, he doesn't exactly look like that and I don't think you all know who he is. But if you've read Calvin and Hobbes, I'm sure you know.

Our play was about beating up this robot. And we got two light bulbs off. The robot at first was interrupting our music. So, the first thing I did was go over to him and punch his arm off!

And I said, "I may have forgot my watch, but I always know when it's clobbering time!" before I punched his arm off.

And, well, we showed a lot of cardboard pieces. We beat up the robot and it was very hard. I didn't think it was hard. All we had to do was take the parts off it.

We're playing our music. Actually, this is the end. This is the part where we started playing the music after the robot was defeated.

Dorian Dorian Dorian

2009-06-19T09:07:00.003-04:00

I am Dorian and this is called "Dorian Dorian Dorian". And this next one is all about me, too. This is a great story. I hope you will like it.

With the blocks today, I made a spaceship with it. And all of the signs went in it. This will be next day is my dad's birthday. And I'm gonna eat some of the cake. Yesterday, I made a happy birthday card for him and a happy father's day card for him. And, well, I hope I'll have some ice cream too.

I have a lot of favorite songs. All the songs that are in our car were numbers that we push that have the music... I really like the music. Up on the bookshelf we have a game called Yahtzee.

My mom is my favorite mom and I really like her. Yesterday, we watched Wipeout.

The End. That's it.

The big, big, big cow parade!

2009-06-07T17:13:00.003-04:00

It was good. I'm making a face because I wanted a flag one time but Sebastian was being mad but I just wanted to wave it. I was mad because he just stole it from me because he wanted to wave it and I was really mad about that. Can you talk about something more pleasant? We got lots of candy! Right! And that was good. I liked the candy.
This is the parade of the people at my school that were going to be in the parade. I watched them go past. I was gonna be in the parade, but I wasn't because my mother didn't really want me to. From somebody from his class, he got some candy.

Lydia is over there at the back of that row. I don't think you can really see her but if you look carefully, you might. The hint is: Lydia is wearing a cow skirt. Can you find it?

This is a upside-down truck. A upside-down ice cream truck! We got some vanilla and chocolate and caramel ice cream there. The caramel to me tasted like the people who made it added maple syrup to it.

That is the pink panther that I watch cartoons of. The pink panther was in the parade and he was giving us high fives! I said, "I watch your cartoons!"

I thought the parade was good, but we didn't see the [KeyBank] key this time. I didn't know if it was gonna be there or not so I thought it would be both. Grandma came to the parade with us. She doesn't usually. I think Grandma liked the parade very much.

Dorian

2009-06-03T09:36:00.002-04:00

Mmmmm... ahhh....

I'm called Dorian. This book is all about me.

I like building towns with my brother, Sebastian. I like watching movies with Sebastian. I like playing with Sebastian. Like, I like playing boyngies with Sebastian and also Archie Parks. Well, I like playing video games with my mother, Mama. And I like seeing Mom play Mercury Meltdown Revolution. It's a very fun game.

I ate breakfast today. On breakfast today actually I ate a egg with biscuits on top. The squash biscuits were very good. I really liked them so much that I almost exploded me up!

The End

May fun

2009-05-22T19:11:00.003-04:00

Sorry it has been so long since our last post. Between the death of my better camera at the hands of 2 young men and Blogger deciding we were a "spam blog", there hasn't been a whole lot happening in the "Mystery Hours". Allow us to update you on our month...Sebastian launched a rocket. Well, when we were gonna find it, we couldn't find it anywhere. Bob was looking on the roof but we didn't know how he got there, so we asked him and he said, "I put my finger on my nose and blasted up!" "How did you really get up there?" "I pulled myself up."

Mama gave a picture about the radishes and I showed one that I bit while I was eating a cookie. Good cookie. What about the radish? It was dirty so I ate the dirt right off.

The radishes are different colors: red, purple, and white. I really liked them! They were delicious! Just a little bit spicy. It made me jump a little, but they were okay. The radishes were really growing good.

When we went to the river with Lydia, we were going to the West River and then after a little bit, we saw some frog eggs. They felt slimy.

We caught a crawfish. It was cool. I liked looking at its little pincers. Actually I liked every single part of it. If you look closely, you can probably see something that looks like a miniature lobster... that's the crawfish! We thought it wanted some grass and rocks.

We were playing in the pool with Wyatt. We did something fun. We took out all the toys and jumped and dived in. Well, when I was going in sometimes, I had some water from it. I did a couple cannonballs. I did one cannonball. We said funny things when we dived. Like I said, "Farty cookie lookie bookie crookie." I said, "Bookie lookie farting cookie." We had circuit board bathing suits. They were awesome! I thought they were pretty cool. They even had nice magenta dotted lines.

I'm Dorian

2009-04-28T14:57:00.003-04:00

(photo by Uncle Jack)

We always watch Scooby Doo movies. I like the songs on there. Scooby, Scooby Dee Doo... I can't think of a word.

How about, I drived in a car one day. I was sitting in the back seat also.

I have a monster book.

The End

Our trip

2009-04-24T18:48:00.004-04:00

We went on a trip. I read books. We drank juice and ate snacks. And ate Mama.

Our first stop was Jamie and Kaci's house. I liked it there. I felt sick.

I'm reading The Pop-up Mice of Mr. Brice. Jamie came over to our house one time.

We went to the Natural History museum. It looks like I'm getting my head eaten off by a dinosaur skeleton. But not really. I'm just standing in front of it. I felt sicker. The Natural History museum is in Washington, DC at the Smithsonian. And we went on escalators.

That's me! That's us. We are in front of the "castle." The weather was really rainy, but now the rain has sort of stopped, but then it rained again after that.

Here's the Washington Monument you see here. That's me! We went to Washington, DC with my grandma.

We're at the Metro station. I thought it was really cool. It had lots of nice lights and escalators and machinery. Definitely lots of that. I just really liked it. I liked going on the trains and going through those stuff and going up the escalators. The place spread with excitement. It means someone spread, like, a jar of excitement jam all over it. It seemed like the future.

We went to Uncle Jack's house for the last house. I liked to call him Uncle Snack. I really liked it. We played music there and slept there and played there. We saw some ponies, real live ponies and... turtles! and egrets. We had some ice cream, too. I had cotton candy party. I had chocolate swirl! It always kept melting. I ate the cone last. They had a floppy frisbee with lots of arms. We played a game with it. How you play is that there's a fan above you and you're trying to throw the frisbee onto the fan. And then you put the fan on and it rains all over the place. When it falls off the spinning fan, you never know where it's gonna land, 'cause every time it lands in a different direction.

I liked going on the trip. It was a good time there.

I made a robot out of K'nex

2009-04-09T09:17:00.003-04:00

I made a robot out of K'nex. That's what it's called!

I'm Dorian. My brother is Sebastian. He has two esses in his name.

My mother is Mama. My daddy is Jeremy.

We have Ricky Ricotta books and Captain Underpants books. I like Flip-o-ramas. Yes! I love Flip-o-ramas!

We have lots of lots of movies.

I am a kid. I like to hum. Like I want to right now. [hums a little tune]

Okay, The End!

Daddy and Mama

2009-04-03T08:41:00.002-04:00

My mother is Mama. Mama is my great mom in the whole wide world. Mama, Dorian, Sebastian and Daddy-- we are a great big family.

Sometimes I drum on the drums that are upstairs.

One day, it was Winter Carnival. There was a pirate ship, a bouncy house where you gotta bounce in. I saw a picture up on it that some guys were killing an octopus.

I have a blanket called "Giraffey" and a buddy called "Giraffey Pox". Giraffey has animals all over him.

This is a computer that Mama's using.

I have buddies that I like and they're really nice to me and Giraffey's nice to me, too.

I'm getting sleepier and sleepier.

The End.

I am the tiger

2009-04-02T18:37:00.003-04:00

I made a story about me before. Today I'm reading books. In the book is a shark eating a boy in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid. It's very fun to read it, but I'm almost to the end. It's almost done because it has so many pages!

I go to W. Bee now. On April Fool's Day, yesterday, at W. Bee I played with toys in the playing room. We sang a song about fishes that goed SNAP!

We have a RockBand 2 at our house. I like to play "I am the Tiger it's the thrill of the fight!" I love to play all the songs like "Chap Suey"-- it starts with "wake up!" It has a lot of "you wanted to"s in it. And "Nine in the Afternoon, you could 'cause you can, so you do. Just the way that we do when it's nine in the afternoon." I sing it all over again.

I really liked saying Little Peoples in the first story of me, Dorian. I'm the greatest boy in the whole wide world! I added KA-BOOM! in the other story.

I like my mother. She's so great to see. Just a-goin' to the Wii.

I love All-School Sing. That's what friends are for.

My dad is wonderful dad.

The End.

Jim is coming over today

2009-03-31T17:19:00.000-04:00

My uncle Jim came over the other day. The weekend was fun, spending a time with him. Jim came over on Saturday. We went to different places. They were cool. There were cars at one store. Sometimes I see signs that say "One Way."

First stop: Grafton Village Cheese Factory

I'm hiding in this picture, but Sebastian is always in the way for me. I was rolling down the dusty and grassy hill. And one time I ran down so fast I couldn't stop myself from running 'til I got to this dried up water pipe. I'm making muscles.
I am jumping off a rock. I really love jumping off a rock when I'm Dorian. Dorian, the greatest boy in the world!

Next stop: Harlow's Sugar House

First, we went into the store and we met this woman and she told us we had to wait a second until we could see the sap in the machines, so we decided to go over to the maple trees and look at the sap. We tasted it. Did you know that 40 gallons of sap is just one gallon of maple syrup?! The sap tasted like water with one little piece of sugar in it.

I'm in the trees with Sebastian. Bye-bye, I'm leaving this tree by the sidewalk with the bee. I'm hiding. Can you find me?
We're in the evaporation room. First, we followed this truck full of sap over to this big tank. Then, we followed this pipe that we saw all the way into the evaporation room. First, the evaporator was just getting ready. It was warming up. Then, a few minutes later, the steam billowed everywhere! It looked like a total explosion had went off and the smoke couldn't stop going away. It was crazy! And then we had some maple syrup and then we ate some sugar on snow and some apple fritters. The fritters were delicious! They were very delicious! I hope you go there and taste them someday. I love the sugar on snow and the apple fritters.

Third stop: Dwight Miller Orchards

I'm throwing rocks in this humongous puddle.

Now we're racing races. When I was running with Daddy, he jumped over my head and that was not fair. Not only that but I also got hurt. On Sebastian it hurted so bad.

Last stop: Our living room

I'm playing a trumpet that Jim gave me. I'm reading my magazine. It came with a mouthpiece, too, which is an important part.

I'm farting... I'm Dorian... I'm farting because I'm Dorian...

I'm using a trumpet. I love using a trumpet because that's Jim's. Jim came over today.

Dorian and Sebastian

2009-03-30T14:03:00.003-04:00

I'm Dorian. Sebastian is my friend. Actually, he's my brother. Sometimes I swing on our swing we made. And we use some ropes for it... for the swing. Swings are cool.

I love to play in the snow. It's not snowing anymore. It's raining. I heared a thunderstorm last night and I slept through it. It's very loud KA-BOOM! That was a bad dream because it was a big thunderstorm!

I like planting flowers with Mama. We plant daffodils and all kinds of flowers.

That was a really great day being Dorian. We tried to find spring, but we couldn't. But there were signs of spring. I don't know what they were.

I have a class called Little Peoples. My teacher is Nicole and there's Ruthie and Neve and Priya and me, Dorian. I make crafts and all kinds of stuff.

"S" is for Sebastian. I love my brother, Sebastian. He's my great brother in the whole world. But we have a snow fight. And one day we made a snowman called Frosty. And there was a snowman called Frosty at Sugar on Snow. KA-BOOM!

I make silly faces.

That's it. The End!

The robot

2009-03-08T17:37:00.002-04:00

This is "Robot the robot". Because he's really cool and one time his light bulb got sucked up. Remember that? By the vacuum. He's really right.

Once I really wanted, like, a 3D wire. But I couldn't find any. Suddenly when someone said I could use some of the toaster oven pieces, I found this wire that we got. A 3D wire is very cool because you like 3D wires.

I got the whole idea of building a robot because I thought of how much I liked robots. I made it out of cardboard boxes and machinery drawing papers. I put on a little screen that said, "Hello. I am Robot the robot." Daddy helped me by cutting out and taping on the boxes and stuff. I directed the robot. I gave it laser eyeballs. I only put on one hand because it took a long time drawing the gray metal color on the robo-claw. I put 2 light bulbs on its head. I put them on later than the pictures you see now were taken. Also I connected a spring from its arm to one of the wires from the double wire. The double wire was the one in 3D.

This is a back view. Now you can see where the wire (with both of the wires stuck together) is plugged in on the back of the body. Also we left some flaps open to open and close the legs and kept them open so it looked like the foot part.

Marian

2009-03-03T12:05:00.003-05:00

Once upon a time, we were driving over to Marian's house. My stomach felt funny and my mouth and throat began to dry up. My intestines wiggled. I felt as if I were sick. It took one hour and I couldn't wait 'til we got to Marian's house.

In this picture, I'm wearing very funny eyeglasses. I call them "Slinky eyeball glasses." I'm also wearing a jester hat. I look funny.
I'm wearing those eyeglasses that Sebastian was wearing. I love going to my friend's houses. It's very fun. This was a good day I had at Marian's.

I'm playing pinball. I really liked playing pinball because it waits an hour. I wait an hour to play it. Sebastian was also playing.

This is me and Dorian's string band. I am playing the guitar. And I am playing the mandolin-banjo. It's called the banjolin. I love playing songs together when I like playing "The Rattlin' Bog."

And we got some funky presents. I got this bang flag gun. When you push the trigger, the nozzle opens up and a flag that says "bang" reveals out of it. I got some candy that makes you have funky teeth. It's really funny. I liked going sledding last year. It was really fun sledding last year. I love sledding, Mama. I was scared on my toboggan that I was going to fall. I kept yelling, "No, Sebastian! Not that way!" [Sebastian kindly reminded Dorian that this post was not about sledding. It was about going to Marian's house.]

Super Sledders!

2009-02-26T18:29:00.009-05:00

Super sledders on the go! This is super! And guess what? I went on a few low sleds, then went up one lump, then, after the ones on two lumps high, I went much higher. Almost to the top. And I sledded all the way to the bottom. It was fun!

Riley is snowboarding. I'm only saying this because you can't see the snowboard, so I just wanted to say that.
Riley's showing me how to snowboard. It's my turn now. I pick up the snowboard.

My snowboarding went swell until the end. I practiced snowboarding about 2 or 3 times. At the end I slipped over, the snowboard flipped, I tipped and tumbled and I really hurt.

I was sledding down towards my nose in the sled. Then, something turned my mind in the sled. No people go to cages.

I'm gonna be in the newspaper!

2009-02-22T10:10:00.002-05:00

Of course! I thought I was gonna be in the Brattleboro Reformer. This is the best day of my life because I get to be in the news for my very first time. I was surprised about Frosty. Frosty gets to be in the paper also. One day I'll get in the paper. Yeah, maybe you will be. Just perhaps, Dorian.

I was at Sugar on Snow when I got my picture taken. I think they took the picture of me because they liked my hat. It all started when this woman (who wasn't taking pictures for the paper) was taking a picture of me. Then all of the sudden this woman who was taking pictures for the paper suddenly snuck up and took a picture of me myself. Then I slept a sleep. Then, one day, I looked on the computer and saw all the pictures that were gonna be in the paper. And when I saw them, one of them was the picture of me. And that's how I know I'm gonna be in the news.

Spinners TM and the Return of Spinners TM

2009-02-14T18:06:00.003-05:00

This is a movie about an explorer. He works at a power plant and delivers electrified machines. In this movie, you see him walking all over the place because he has to deliver them everywhere! His name is "X Out". His friends are "Zyper" and "Compute". Compute is a robot that has a picture of grass on both sides of his body. He likes to stay with Zyper.

And this is a stage construction. You might not have known that stage constructions are a kind of movie that show the pieces that add on to the parts of the movie to make it look like it looks.

Making a machine

2009-02-04T16:28:00.002-05:00

We are taking apart a toaster oven, which is really funny. Sebastian was even really taking apart the toaster oven. So I'd take some pieces to connect them to make a new machine. When Sebastian was taking apart the toaster oven, I punched my face. In the next picture, you'll see that there's gonna be, you'll see most of the machinery from the side.

See all the wires and stuff? That part was really cool. There were lights and a bell. It was so cool! We took out the tray, the wire, and the knobs. And the lights. Yeah, we also took lights. I was planning on making a musical instrument, an automatic keyboard, that when you push buttons that say "Bass" "ABCDEFG" then it's gonna be the same for "Low", "Middle" and "High". And when you push the buttons, there will be some drumsticks on top of the keys and when you see yourself pushing the buttons, the drumsticks will fall down on top of the keys and it will make a musical note. That looks like a TV standing on my face.

[A toaster oven was harmed during production of this post by permission of the owner.]

The Black Mountain View

2009-01-25T15:10:00.005-05:00

It was a beautiful day when me, Mama, and Dorian and Daddy set off for an adventure on Black Mountain. Here are two views of what it looked like in two places at the top of the mountain.

I am cuddled up tight in my warm snow suit. The wind is about to kill me of cold, although I am really warm. So I put my hands up. We also found a bunch of different kinds of animal tracks. We found a bunny's, dog's, deer's, and even chipmunk's. And even bird's.

I am walking in a secret path wondering when we had to get back home. I saw a village ahead, but it was not too long. Sebastian was called "Ice Man". Dorian named hisself "Ouch" because he wore his hat and not his balaclava. It was very cold and I didn't have any balaclava and I just have one eye. I can just bounce on one eye today.

This is a really funny movie because if you look, you'll see that I am sliding down with funny parts in it.

When Jamie's beard was snowy

2009-01-20T16:28:00.003-05:00

I was on my toboggan. This movie title might trick you because when you say the title it'll sound like "it's no fun" but it actually is.

Crazy moves

2009-01-07T14:17:00.001-05:00

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My loose tooth

2009-01-04T17:43:00.003-05:00

Do you see a little hole created in my teeth? That's because I lost one right in that section! You can see from the title that someone got a loose tooth.

Here's the tooth that I lost. See it on Mama's hand? I think it looked great. But it looked so small! It wasn't bloody. It was clean white when it came out.
Here is my tooth pouch that I put my tooth in. The white part shaped like a tooth is the part I put my tooth in. And the top of the heart part is the pocket that the tooth fairy leaves her present that she gave me in. And Mama made it as quick as a wink! I think the tooth fairy's gonna give me a coin-- a penny, perhaps.

The Electronic Ferris Wheel

2008-12-28T14:53:00.004-05:00

This is the electronic Ferris Wheel that me and my dad made. I'm too shy to talk. Dorian helped a little bit. I helped yesterday. It took a lot of time putting 478 pieces together in just 2 days. Sebastian was sick yesterday. Isn't that crazy? 478 pieces?!

This is a close-up of the wheel part. And I invented the wheel. Look at me. Dorian, you didn't invent the wheel. There were wheels even right before you were born and I didn't see you invent a wheel because they were already invented.

This is the picture of the whole ferris wheel. The base is made of simple colors. It's only gray, white, yellow and blue. A B C.

Excuse me Dorian, can you please stop being so silly while the blog. I said E F! Daddy can I erase it please? These are the interlocked gears. I invented the wheel. I don't think you can see it but there's a light blue gear under the yellow gear you can definitely see.

Hey Dorian, didn't I say you didn't invent the wheel. I invented the wheel. Don't say it again! This is a big close up of the dark blue gear. The other obstacles you can see are probably parts of the base.

This is the whole wheel. This is the part that really took a long time because there were two whole rods that he had to fill and we had to put on all these orange bars. It really took a long time, especially when it came time to make the seats. We worked together like we were in a factory.

Christmas is special

2008-12-26T09:24:00.002-05:00

I love you! I love Christmas presents. We're about to open presents. It's Christmas! It's Christmas, ho ho ho!

I'm Santa, and I'm giving out presents.

I'm the Thing from Fantastic 4. The costume came from Santa. There was a note that said, "What you asked for when we were talking wouldn't fit inside your stocking. Look under the tree for a picture of me. Love, Santa" And I saw the one and only present that was near me with a picture of Santa on it. Inside there was not one costume, there was two! I got another one called a "Honey Bunny" but it was missing only the bunny ear headband.

We're wearing our sledding things. We're wearing our snowshoes. I thought they were great.

We're making a snowman.

We went to Panasian for lunch. And I discovered that my tooth was loose. It was actually 2 teeth that were loose. And they were right next to each other. And they were wiggling!

December specials

2008-12-24T10:51:00.003-05:00

Whether you've been naughty or nice, have a very happy holiday!

Look at us. We're very cool. See us?

Merry Christmas! I hope you get all you want!

Gingerbread houses

2008-12-23T19:31:00.003-05:00

Lydia and Riley came to our gingerbread house making party. But Davy didn't come. That was too bad. We used candy spearmints; red, white and green stars; little, curvy tubes of licorice; some lifesavers; Necco wafers; pretzels; cookies; and we put gingerbread men on.

I ate it all up! I ate part of my gingerbread house. It was yummy! Riley and Lydia and Dorian had some interesting ones that I would've made but I didn't want to put on the candies that made it interesting.

Today is 6 days 'til Christmas

2008-12-19T16:10:00.002-05:00

We made a Xmas tree, a Xmas tree, a Xmas tree! I love the lights on our Xmas tree! La la la laaaaa!

We're decorating the tree. My favorite decorations were, let's see, the silver sun, the plastic ball with a circular picture of me when I was little in it, but what I liked most of all was the star at the top of the Xmas tree.

The gold blue ball that was gold and the springy dancers and the big star. 'E end.

I'm putting on the big gold balls.

I love Dorian's little face. It's cute, isn't it? I got the green Santa stocking, Dorian the light blue Frosty, Mama the dark blue Xmas tree, and Daddy, lastly, the red sparkle snowflakes.

We're making some mittens to hang up in the decoration room that has the 2 Xmas trees and the colored window lights.

I made a mitten. I liked to put on the mittens the glue. Our decorations are so beautiful. We used letter stamps, glitter glue, origami paper, sequins, colored cotton balls and even blank ones. We used a lot of stuff. Didn't we? Did I mention that we also used stickers? And Grandma came over to visit to decorate also.

Christmas Paradise

2008-12-06T15:43:00.002-05:00

We went to see Santa today! Today, today, today, day!

I'm sitting on Santa's lap. Elfred! I asked Santa for a costume. A kind of fancy costume, not just one random kind. I got a candy cane! Me too!

I said at Santa I wanted a baseball.

I'm making a cookie. It was great!

I put on Skittles on it. I put some poop M&Ms on it. And I put some Mr. Strawberries on it.

Thanksgiving weekend

2008-11-30T19:37:00.003-05:00

I'm holding a bone of turkey. I'm taking a bite of it.

I'm rolling around in the snow. I'm looking at Sebastian. We went to advent tea at Cookie's house. I was solving a mystery with this writing box. And all the lat names I heard in the writing box were Powers. We were jumping in the snow. We had a snowball fight. It was snowing while I was at advent tea.
I'm looking at your bunny. You made a bunny.

Things to be thankful for

2008-11-27T10:47:00.005-05:00

Sebastian presents: How to make a Thanksgiving Tree

We made a Thanksgiving tree. You cut out a tree-shaped shape that has branches and a tree trunk-- no leaves. And then you cut out colored leaves and write what you are thankful for on them. Stick the tree-shaped cut out paper onto the wall. Tape or glue. You can use any kind that can stick. Then use the same material to stick the leaves onto the tree.

I was thankful for the markers. Mama was thankful for coffee and chocolate. Daddy was thankful for music and video games. And I was thankful for cranberries.

[A few others in no particular order: the dishwasher, pumpkin pie, being in a band, the leaves, my brother and parents friends and relatives, cake, non-fiction books, 2 crazy children, naps, wool and the needles to knit it with, our new house, notebooks and animating, Thomas the tank engine, RockBand, lower gas prices, throwing rocks in the river, food from local farms. Guess who said what!]

We are saying, "Nah nah nah."

2008-11-20T12:16:00.002-05:00

We love those hats! Dustin and Cortmee sent the hats. Dustin and Cortmee sent them to me. They're a monkey hat and a moose hat. 'E end!

I was going to Little Peoples camp!

2008-11-18T12:19:00.003-05:00

Look at me! Look at Dorian! I was drawing. And I was going to Little Peoples camp. Did you know that? Because that is my special camp. Yeah. I go to Little Peoples camp. I did it. Mama leaved me there. Fun! Yeah. Yeah, really. It was fun again. I had a good day.

Sebastian's Sliders

2008-11-15T18:00:00.001-05:00

This is a movie aboutmy slider socks and there's an introduction at the beginning. There is also something we put in that we've never put in before. From Paquette Pictures

Busy Birthday Weekend

2008-11-09T16:22:00.002-05:00

I'm looking at my box of robotics. I built the remote control robot. I also got some Ed Emberley books and another drawing book with a pen and 2 colored pencils. I also got an electric bell and K'nex. It was fun playing with them and building them. I'm holding my best friend Kiki who is a knit cat. I love her. I also love her, too.

We were lying next to the robot. Me and Daddy and Dorian made it with blue tape. I made it because of my special birthday party.

We're making a potion. We'll throw it at Mama. We used chalk, water, dirt, packed down soil, and bugs. And bug blood. We also used pumpkin guts.
Look at our robot cake! Don't you see all the buttons and the big funny face? I do, but Dorian doesn't see. [Kids laughing.] I do, but Sebastian doesn't see. [They cackle and repeat themselves endlessly. Let's move on.]

Mama's bringing out the cake. And you know what? It had a lemon flavor.

Today we went to Gone Bananas. I'm playing the Dog Pounder.

I'm playing Arctic Thunder. We were in something.

Now we're playing Dance Dance Revolution. It was special because it was Japanese, my favorite language. It's my favorite language because they have cute words.

My birthday is great! I feel happy to be 6!

Time description of a stapler

2008-11-02T17:25:00.002-05:00

This movie is called "Notebook Rotation". It's full of all these enemies trying to defeat a stapler, but the stapler escapes each time. At the end, there's a special part when all these letter cubes and a number cube bump into a hole puncher you'll see at the beginning. Have fun watching!

We are going trick or treating!

2008-11-01T08:45:00.003-04:00

With Lydia! And Friday I detest. It's much too late on Thursday and Monday is the day of rest. We are ghostiz. Actually, ghosts. Lydia's Supergirl with sharp, pink teeth.
Look at Dorian! A laser ray is coming out of his flashlight.

We're dumping out all our big lot of candy. Look at all this loot! I'm most excited about Starburst. I've not had that for a long time. I have a million pieces of candy.

Getting my candy out. There is 1-60-70-80-4! I was eating my lollipop! But I goed out and gived everyone some candy.

Carving Editable

2008-10-31T16:28:00.003-04:00

We're making a magnificent pumpkin. The strength of the hardness on outside of the pumpkin was like 2 inches down!
Look at my mean face! My pumpkin's name is "the dreadnought".

Mine is called the "Derry-o". It has a sad face.

It had a candle inside it. This is the carving editable section. It was great when we saw all the glowing faces and the picture of ghosts which was Mama's idea for her pumpkin.

Mine. Look at the Derry-o!
Wow! The dreadnought is great! Don't you think so, Dorian? Yep. Say something great about it. The dreadnought is great.

Look! The ghosties pumpkin which Mama made is glowing furiously! I could see the candle in there.

Today is Halloween. Happy Halloween! Happy Halloween!

When we were going

2008-10-25T15:28:00.003-04:00

At the tree farm when we saw the little too much rain. We saw lots of really high trees.
I am standing on a big stump with one foot on a high part and one foot on a low part. My pose is called "the Flinc." I look like a duck quacker.

Now we're by our Christmas tree. We didn't bring our Christmas tree home today. I can't wait for Christmas. It sort of started to rain, so we put our hoods on. We're going to get our Christmas tree by carrying it on the car in December. And a farmer named Bill is going to cut it down for us.

Now we're in a labyrinth. And we're sitting in the middle of a rock in the middle of the labyrinth. We knew where to walk by following the path. But we saw animal holes, so that was not very nice.

The West River with Riley... and Davy!

2008-10-25T15:13:00.003-04:00

This is a really big leaf! It's giant! Just crazy! I found them. [These leaves were an amazing 12 inches wide!]
There were Sebastian and me were climbing up. We said, "Who is in the water fishing for leaves?" and "Who is in the water mixing their paints?" There you go, fish!

We were saying, "There you go, fish!" when we were fishing for leaves. We also said, "Bad fish!" and "Stay right there, fish! Don't flip one fin!"

There were all kind of stuff were in the rocks. In the weasel you won't get to me, bubble! When I felled in the water, I was all too wet. Put a towel on me. But Mama didn't have one, so Amanda gave me one. So Amanda got me one. Good. Then we are going to our house again.

Now we're throwing rocks into the water from so high.

At Black Mountain

2008-10-19T17:56:00.003-04:00

Dorian and Sebastian are watching. There was a mountain from Mimi and Papa's house.
Look it's a really big mountain. Mimi and Papa live there. It's the biggest mountain we could see. It's so far away. This mountain is called Mt. Monadnock. That's a silly name.
Now we see a cool distance.
Now we're on a rock. The dogs were chasing us. How did you feel? Bad. Mad. One of the horrible things I noticed about the dogs is that they were running around us, unleashed. We were scared!

Leaf peeping peepy peep

2008-10-19T17:43:00.004-04:00

We're raking leaves because we want to make a big pile to jump in.
I'm carrying leaves over to the leaf pile.
I'm bringing some leaves, too.

The leaves are flying high in the air. We cannot help it. We just keep jumping.

This movie is about jumping in the leaves. Find out more to see about the 3 names and different kinds of leaves.

A little entertainment courtesy of Mr. Dorian

2008-10-13T12:22:00.003-04:00

There were frog boots. I had them for one minute. But they didn't fit Mama! So I had to try them out. Riley had a pair of those. What do you do with your boot? I talk on it. I was having a nice time with my boots. I found a woolly bear. It was walking onto the grass and the sidewalk. It was very lonely and sad. It couldn't be dead, so it rolled up into a ball.

I had a movie called "Black Socks"-- that's a song.

Black socks, they never get dirty

The longer you wear them,

The blacker they get.

Sometimes, I think I should wash them,

But something inside me

Says don't wash them yet,

Not yet, not yet.

Standing on the fence

2008-10-06T08:43:00.002-04:00

There was a pig at the farm. I want to name that pig something yesterday, on Thursday. Mama, it's not Thursday yet when they will tear down the chimney.
Why am I standing there? I don't know. I was standing on a table and saying hello to them. "Hello, pigs!"
I will count them first. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10! 10 apples. Oh my gosh! Pumpkins.
We were picking apples. We were going to the cemetery. No. Where were we going there? To the orchard. Oh. But the apple picking is too far away from home.
Sebastian and Dorian. Did you saw ourselves on the computer? Looking at the sheep and I didn't know to get on. Hm.

Where is the wooden apple?

2008-09-28T14:20:00.002-04:00

The wooden apple is a prize. We were trying to find it while we were going apple picking.

This is a pig. The pigs are very cute. They were in the pasture this time. The pasture at Dwight Miller Orchards.
They were saying [snorts].
Look at those apple trees!
I am eating an apple. I'm eating an apple.
I'm up in a tree. I got up there to have fun. And this is how I got up there: I put one hand up, then the other hand. I put one knee up, then the other knee. I like climbing trees. Me, too. It's really fun. Yeah... it is.

We went to Green Mountain Orchard

2008-09-19T18:21:00.005-04:00

We're off in the distance. Can you see us? Just a little past those puddles. See that person with the black pants? That's me. I think. The other one is Lydia, I think.
I am right. We're looking at the reindeer. The reindeer was trying to get the apple I was eating.
We got some plums and apples. Don't they look pretty and yummy? I guess they're pretty yummy. [laughs]

Putney

2008-09-19T18:21:00.003-04:00

We found an orange salamander when we went up to Putney Mountain. I'm trying to catch it.
Look at the elephant tree! It's so big! That's why it's called the elephant tree.
We're at the top now. We're both on a rock. The same one. Guess what we found on the way to the witch's forest? Blackberries!
Look at all the beautiful mountains. One of them is the blue mountain. Can you guess which one it is?

Camping out tonight

2008-09-06T17:20:00.002-04:00

(left to right: Me, Dorian, Daddy, cousin Emily, and her boyfriend Michael) We went camping last weekend. It was fun.
Here is the pool. I mean, wading pond.
We goed waterfalling. I was climbing on rocks with my dad. Well, it was a very good trip. It's called Bash Bish Falls. And we crossed from New York to Massachusetts on the way!

The big hike

2008-08-18T14:37:00.003-04:00

We found blueberries. We ate them. We were at Black Mountain. These were wild blueberries.
We had a nice day.
I'm playing at the top, I think, where it's nice and rocky. My teeth and lips are blue because I was eating so much blueberries.
Look at the top view!
Wow! I can't believe how many mushrooms those were! There are 12 mushrooms.

This is the wrong place to live

2008-08-14T18:58:00.002-04:00

Once I was looking for my house
Two of them were gray
They looked exactly like my house
I didn't know what to say
And then when I discovered
That I was on my way
It was a crazy sight to see
Because my house was every which way.

Beach trip

2008-08-10T18:09:00.005-04:00

Our favorite thing at going to the beach was stepping on rocks. I like doin'.
We're laughing at each other. We are not. Yes.
Look how high the water's coming up. Dorian and Daddy. The others are me and Uncle Jamie.
Wow. I don't exactly know what we are doing.
I'm stepping on sand castles. We made those castles by dripping little pieces of mud on it. We call it a drip castle. And there was fishes, too.

This is a big bowling movie. Enjoy it!

We're playing air hockey. I'm against Dorian. I'm against Sebastian.

We are going on a fun carousel. Yeah. And it goes bzzzzz. How does it go bzzzz? "Whee!" we said.

We are mermaids. I'm Lydia the mermaid. I'm Emma the mermaid. We were saying cheese. This is what they have to say:

Lydia: How are you doing, Emma?

Emma: What?

L: I said, how are you doing?

E: Good.

It's a day at the fair!

2008-07-31T08:40:00.002-04:00

We went to the Cheshire Fair yesterday.

Me, Lydia, and Dorian are bouncing on the moon bounce.
We are in the roller coaster called the Dragon Wagon. I was scared at first, but I liked it when it went back, forth, back, forth. I was scared and I goed on the top. It's that seat with Lydia. And what happened? Did you have to get off? Yeah.
I'm driving the car. Oh, I wished I could go on that ride. It looked so fun. But I'm too tall. I ride in that car.
I'm eating chips with Sebastian. They're delicious! I love potato chips! Me, too. I goed in the table room. [sings] The table room! The table room! I liked eating them. Especially with Dorian. And what did you drink, Mama? I drank root beer.
I put my hands on my ears. The chickens with Mama. Guess what I was doing? While Dorian and Mama were looking, me and Lydia went fishing.Whee! I like the carousel.

I'm hugging the robot. He told me his name was Robot.

Wall*E introduction

2008-07-28T13:26:00.003-04:00

Wall*E is a great movie. It just was fantastic because we liked it because we thought it was good. And we had popcorn and we had drinks and we had popcorn. For our snack. I liked that Wall*E and Eva became friends. Well, we liked the funny part when Wall*E was trying to discover these red things and all of a sudden everything exploded. I think the movie was mostly about Wall*E and Eva. Wall*E! Eva!

These are some flowers and more

2008-07-26T12:43:00.003-04:00

[You may click on the individual images to enlarge.]

See that pink flower? That's a rose. The next one is a rainbow flower. Next, the cotton. It used to be the first prize cotton. Next, the cream flower. Next, root. And, now, last, the egg flower.
Look! Look at all these cuties! PacMan, Inky, the cute periscope, her friend the zigzagger, too.
This one may look good. Do you like it? The zigzagger, his friend the periscope, Inky, PacMan, Mr. Electronics, Mrs. TV and Robot the robot.
Coming up... the White Pants! These are the CDs: Vol.1-- Heaven and Me, Vol.2-- Hey!, and Vol.3-- Fireworks.
Coming soon... Come to the White Pants' concert! I made these 3 dimensional pictures.

Mr. Mixed Media

2008-07-22T12:39:00.001-04:00

Paints painting. I paint a mirror. Our house.

Nothing

2008-07-21T15:06:00.003-04:00

At Lake Spofford. Hmmm. Hmmm-mmm-mmm. Picking sand.
Swim, swim, swim. Pee in the bathroom. I want to go to Lake Spofford.

[I'm sorry we haven't been posting as often lately. I'm afraid our pictures are getting a little redundant since we basically do the same things everyday. Sebastian has been hard at work drawing and writing, so I will try to scan some of his output in the coming week.]

Do you know how to swim in the sand?

2008-07-16T10:55:00.002-04:00

Swimming. Lydia's just swimming in the water.
Whoo hoo hoo! It's the best day! I like swimming.
I don't know. I'm sleeping. Why would someone be sleeping at such a wonderful place?
Amanda. Davy Bavy. He's sleeping.

[The wee ones got a little worn out after 4 hours at the beach.]

Whatever I do, it's more for camp

2008-07-09T18:33:00.003-04:00

I'm ready to get to the car. I'm going to camp. Whatever I do, it's more for it. My camp is at Living Memorial Park. Soccer, baseball, archery, chalk drawing, swimming and, of course, lunch are all things we do everyday.
Today was Wacky Wednesday. I dressed up in my best Batman costume. And close to when we got out of the skating rink, the Mystery Players visited us. And they gave me a prize because they thought I had the best costume ever of all the campers. My prize was an American airplane, a silver star bead necklace, a shape ruler and stickers.

I like camp a lot! Even a ton more than that. I'm going to go back for one more week.

This 4th of July parade was great because I was in it!

2008-07-04T13:16:00.003-04:00

I was sitting in the stroller. Because you were taking me to the marching band! I didn't play the band. Who did? Sebastian! And Daddy, too!

It's Sebastian! He was marching in the band! [He's at the front left in the pink shirt, drumming.]
I'm drummin'. It's great! I loved the parade. I started at a high school, then we marched down past Walgreen's. We ended at a place that had an open space that was very green because of all the grass. [The common] I saw Mama, DeeDee, Lydia, and Christine. I was in the WVEW marching band group. WVEW is a radio show. It's for anybody. It's in the Brooks House. There are microphones to speak in. There's even a CD player or maybe two for your CDs. They play only one song, though.
Look! There's Daddy! He's far away, though. I had a very fun time playing my drum. And I was next to a lady I liked.

Funspot trip on the go go go!

2008-07-02T09:25:00.004-04:00

Well, we went for a nice ride next. Go Karts! You can also call them "speed mobiles". We went around and around and around and around.
There were puddles on the track. Splash! What happened here? I felt cold because I got splashed a lot. But it was a fun ride. I loved my trip.Oh! A ball. And the white house too. Actually the pot house. I don't think it's a pot house. I think it is a pot house. What is a pot house? A yellow house. What is a yellow house? A spud house.

Funspot Funspot Funspot

2008-06-30T18:41:00.004-04:00

The bumper cars - too fun for me! I'd ride them all day if I had time. Funspot Funspot Funspot. We had so much fun. Hungry Hungry Hippos. I'm playing with my three friends - that's the good part. My friends playing are (l to r): Courtney, Dustin and Rob.
This air hockey makes me rockin'. How I love that game. It's so fun. If you want to go to Funspot sometime, we'll take you. It's a nice day out with Sebastian and Courtmey and Dustin and Rob and this is me. And two of tin. You go *pkhhh* *pkhhh* *pkhhh*
What is that? What is it? What is that I said. Dorian really likes that video game. I'm wondering if he's driving in a car. Yeaaah. A car game.
I'm playing with Rob. Looks like Marble Madness. Wooooh! Papa J woooh!
I reeeeeeally loved the time there. See that set up? Try not to fall off or get eaten by some sort of green tube. You use a little ball to move around. If you are already at the top of the slide you'll move down immediately. I like video games.

One poem, two Batmen

2008-06-26T17:43:00.002-04:00

One Batman said to the other,

"Won't you go and see your mother?"

And the other Batman said,

"Well, hi."

And the other one said,

"Well, bye."

We got the Batman stuff from what Daddy brang home from work. It was from his birthday celebration at New Chapter.

It was a...

2008-06-22T18:29:00.002-04:00

It was a
Dark and stormy night!
Never mind.

[Sebastian has started a new book of poetry entitled Silliness and Restaurants. Today's poems are excerpted from his new work.]

Swim

2008-06-22T18:27:00.000-04:00

A FooShoo dog FooShoo cat
Swimming in the water
A towel
A tent
A person

Pooh's Grand Trip

2008-06-22T18:25:00.002-04:00

Pooh set up
For his first hike.
"He's off, Pooh!" said Piglet.
Eeyore was with Pooh.
Piglet ran to catch up with them.

The wonders of water

2008-06-19T15:11:00.003-04:00

We're at Mme. Sherri Forest. We caught a lot of tadpoles. In fact, we had a tadpole collection that was a new record. Ukiah was there. He's my friend. His sister, Tallulah, was there with his mother, Megan. We had a fun, roly poly, rockin' bockin' good time.
There's a frog we caught.
I got a tadpole. Tadpoles go to the moon.
I'm in a house. It's a nature house.
This is called a Jack-in-the-Pulpit. It looks cute, doesn't it?

Yum! I love strawberries!

2008-06-18T10:05:00.002-04:00

Strawberries! I love strawberries! It's a good thing Mama decided we should pick some.
You know how you find the right kind to pick? Just find one that looks red enough.
I was holding it up to show how good and delicious it looked.
I am eating a strawberry.
We picked 2 pints. A quart! When we got the CSA, more strawberries! We were going to have 2 pints frozen, 2 pints like they were already, I mean, like, plain, and 1 pint for a pie. A strawberry and rhubarb pie.

I am covered with stickers!

2008-06-18T09:58:00.002-04:00

Sebastian cover me all up.
I don't know.
A girly. That was "I don't know" I said.

Gumbasia-- a place where there is clay animation to be made

2008-06-16T12:39:00.003-04:00

I'm making a clay machine.
Now I made all of it. Look how pretty it is! It does milk-making, it turns water (right) into milk (left). It goes out that black pipe. It looks kind of bluish, but it's right coming out sideways from the white.