Farewells

A lot of my friends from the Bearcat room are leaving early for summer vacation before Kindergarten. I'm sad when it's there last day but also happy because we celebrate with cupcakes. It's so confusing to be happy and sad at the same time.

No more forest!

People came and cut down our forest in the back yard! They put down this new grass that Mamma and Daddy are watering and won't let me walk on. No fair.

Swimming

Nope. I still hate swimming and swimming class and water day and putting on my swim clothes. But I'll be the first one in the sprinkler.

Swimming

Last week at swimming class we got to swim on our own with belly-floaties. It was so cool. We swam all the way to the deep end.

n: We swam a lot. And then I drank the water at the end and had to cough.

New favorite show

Just Add H2O. It's about girls that turn into mermaids when they touch water and they have super powers that control water and make it hot or cold or move. And Daddy says they'll get extra powers later. Mamma likes it because they talk like Australians. Where ever that is.

Jet lag

 

 

Mamma is so cute. She comes home and falls asleep at the same time we do.

It's okay that she got to put her feet in the ocean and have amazing meals and see amazing things in Barcelona again. She brought us back key chains. So we're happy.

Wasps

WWWWAAAAHHHH. I got stung on my finger AND IT HUUUURRRTTT! After getting ice and hugs for 30 minutes and anti-itch cream I calmed down. And realized Ewan got bit too. And me on my side. But those bites didn't hurt because we didn't see the bugs bite us. When we see the bugs it hurts more.

Not again!

Last week Mamma went away for 3 days. She came back and we gave her hugs and kisses and told her how much we loved her and missed her. But then she left again. For 4 days! We get to see her on video, which is okay. But trying to hug and kiss a screen is kinda weird. While its nice that she brings us a key chain from all the cool places she goes, I have no concept of this place called Barcelona, and would much just prefer to have her back.

Photo-drawing

 

 

 

 

 The development of my drawing, as photodocumented by me.

Driver

I'm aiming higher. Just waiting on my first real car!

Skater

Playing with my toy skateboard and tattooing my legs. Just waiting for my first real skateboard.

Opposites

After playing the opposite game for too long, I got hungry and wanted to take a vacation. Obviously.

D: What's the opposite of up?
e: Down.
D: What's the opposite of front?
e: Back.
M: What's the opposite of ugly?
e: Meatball.
M: What's the opposite of USA?
e: Beach.
M: What's the opposite of beach?
e: Sea.
M: What's the opposite of camper?
e: Sandwich.

Opposites

M: What's the opposite of Obama?
n: Madonna.

Too much Spy Kids movies

In the Spy Kids movies the girl Carmen says "oh shit...take mushrooms". I've shortened it for her.

e: Oh shit.

My bedstemor will be proud. She taught my Mamma to say "bullshit" with a cool Scandihoovian accent. I'm advanced for my age.

Scandihoovian

(Mamma is out of town)
D: What do you want for dinner?
n: That thing she eats when we eat ABC soup.
D: Pink and purple sandwiches?
n: Yeah!

We identify our food by color and shape. She would call it open-face liverwurst and beet sandwiches. 

Changes

While I'm excited about going to Kindergarten soon, I'm not excited about my friends that leave preschool early. Of the 20 classmates in my Bearcat room, something like 6 or 7 have already left. And I miss them. My friend Emily is leaving this week. She and TJ are my besties. But I'll see them again. I'll ask them to my birthday party.

Best thing about summer?

Ice cream.

Worst thing about summer? Dropping your ice cream cone.

Posers

 

 

 

 

Oh, and me too!

Posers

 

 

 

 

 

Oh yes. I love the camera.

Father's Day

 

n &e: Daddy, you're the best Daddy ever ever ever.

On Nina's school project she said if she could buy Daddy anything in the world she would buy him a pink tie. And she did. I'd buy him more fresh wild caught Alaskan salmon. I like that.

Welcome back

 

Did you miss us?

Crazy days and normalcy

 

 

 

 

 

One more stay-at-home day and then water day at school. Adam and all our friends left. Which is sad and tiring. One more night off and then photos resume. Only 1300 to sift through. Nina's taking hundreds of photos with borrowed expensive cameras. She wants her own. I tell her to share.

Stay home day

 

 

 

 Lots of friends means staying at home and playing. Good thing we got a bigger pool, cus we needed more space for swimming and more water for washing the cars.

More houseguests?

 

 

 

Daddy's friend Adam came last night. He's from Florida but met Daddy in Columbus but somehow lives in Australia and I'm so confused. And I stayed up (all by myself) to see him when he arrived at 9:30pm. And today P&B&L&T came with their two cousins. And I'm staying up even later because I can sense that it's party time. Friends=Family=AwesomePartyTime.

Pools are (eventually) awesome

I don't quite get along with pools initially. I still don't want to go to my own swimming lessons. So I watch Nina. And I don't want to put on my swimming clothes to play in the big kiddie pool. I like the little kiddie pool better. But EVENTUALLY I'll get in the big kiddie pool. And I'll go in Hila's community kiddie pool if Mamma bribes me with cookies. And then I'll go in the big pool with her. I'll even let her hold my shoulders to help me swim and blow bubbles with her. But all that doesn't mean I want to do swim class next weekend.

Pools are awesome

This weekend I went to swimming lessons in a big indoor pool. And then played in the new big kiddie pool in the front yard. And then went to my friend Hila's house and played in her little and big community pool. I love love love pools. I especially love diving down for rings at the bottom of the big pools. And this big pool was cool because I could touch the bottom. I think I was a fish in a past life.

Nerves

It's okay to be scared of a couple of things. Like big pools. And going to the Turtle room. It means I have clear preferences. I like small bodies of water. That I can control and touch the bottom of. And I like rooms where I'm not. If I'm a Teddybear, I want to be a Ladybug. If I'm a Ladybug I want to be a Turtle. If I'm a Turtle I want to be a Ladybug or a Bearcat.

Classrooms

Nina's Bearcat roomed move to the room right beside my room. Now we share a bathroom and kitchen. I can go to her room in the morning and then sneak into my Turtle room and surprise all my friends. But really I still want to be a Ladybug. I miss them and stop by every chance I get to give them hugs.

Summer break

 

 

 

 

In the last 10 days, I've only gone to school once. And I've gone to the zoo, two barbecues (not counting ones at home), a park, the butterfly show, had NeeNee and Mormor and Morfar visit, swam outside and indoors, played fort, run through sprinklers, and made a new friend. Sure sounds like summer to me.