There has been a LOT of stuff…

to blog about, but we are just too busy right now. My mom says when the new year happens we can start writing more blogs and catch up. Sorry I haven’t gotten to tell any stories lately. I promise I will be back soon! I have to tell you about SNOW, my Birthday and my brother’s birthday, AND my dad’s birthday, AND AND Jesus’ birthday, and about everyone coming to visit lately and there is just so much going on. So hold on tight…. we’re about to start a crazy ride!

Friends!

I miss my friends that were in Tallahassee, a lot of us are pen pals now, but I’m happy I am making new friends in Washington, DC. I love EVERYONE. The first picture is Eli’s new friend (and mine!).  The pictures from the park are some of my good friends from school. We went to the National Arboretum that is right near my house one day to ride bikes and scooters. We went super fast down the hill.

Call Me Spiderman!

I like to dress up in my Spiderman costumes.

When I am Spiderman I am polite. I like to rescue people and animals. I call my mom “Mother” and I help clean up. I like to shoot webs from my hands. When I play in my Spiderman costume I shake my bum bum.

I MAKE my mom and dad call me Spiderman.

Now if only I could figure out how to climb the walls….

So Many Leaves!

 

It’s Fall right now, and there are so many leaves falling. Is that why they call it Fall?

Eli and me get to run and jump and play in the leaves. It’s super fun.

 

 

 

 

 

I got to help my mom and dad rake a lot of the leaves. Then I jump in them and make a big mess. They raked all the leaves down to the street and this HUGE Truck came and vacuumed them up! It was really loud and super cool.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We got to keep a pile of leaves in our back yard so we can slide down into them. We didn’t have leaves like this in Tallahassee, but it is a lot of raking to clean them up. I don’t think we’ll have a lot of leaves like this in Miami when we move there either, so I really like to go in them every day now.

Good Morning Balitmore!

Every new day’s an open door…. my mom kept singing that song, so I sing it now too. We got to go to Baltimore for a day, in the inner harbor. It’s not a far drive at all, and there was some really neat stuff there!

My favorite was a really really big bookstore in an old power plant and was big with fish tanks and a fun kids area! There are a lot of bridges all over too, those were fun to run and jump on, because they moved!

We got to see a really old ship from an old war, the USS Constellation. I played with the steering wheel and cannons. I like the picture where I am shooting Eli’s head. We were just pretending. I love Eli. We heard a cannon shoot and a submarine alarm sound!!! We raced our cars too!

We got to go up in a really old light house. I got a stamp there! My mom had some crab cakes, and it tasted really yummy. I like crab! I don’t like when they pinch though.

I can’t wait to go back there. They  had a really cool water show, where water sprays out of the ground and you can run through it. It was too cold so I have to wait until Spring to do that. My mom can’t wait either because there is a RITA’s right next to it too! And there is a Kids Discovery Museum to visit too next time.

Full Circle

A day after the wedding we went to a funeral. It wasn’t my first funeral, but the first one where I started asking questions. It’s hard trying to understand what it means when someone dies. My mom and dad are trying to explain it to me. All I know is that it’s good because if you know Jesus, you can go be with him in heaven. I keep telling them I really want to be with Jesus, but my mom and dad say there is a LOT I have to do on earth first before then. It’s so confusing.

Aunt Shelby and my dad’s great uncle died. He was in the Air Force so he got to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery. We got to see a really pretty ceremony. They shot guns and had a band and horses and everything! Eli and me got to wear our suits AGAIN! We get them all muddy though. We didn’t do good inside the church again, so my mom took us outside and we saw the band and horses walk up. We got to race our cars too. Eli went poopie outside too, and there were no potties so my mom had to change him on the grass. The army guys on the horses were standing right next to us, and they laughed at us.

Then after the funeral we went to a really really big house in DC, they had really good little donuts. Eli and Me were the only kids, and we made everyone laugh. We asked EVERY person there for a hug. Here are some pictures.

Trains, Planes & Automobiles

I really really like anything that can go SUPER FAST! So when Aunt Shelby & Uncle Tanner came to visit, I was super excited to go to the Museum of American History! They had trains, planes and cars all over! We got to even ride on a pretend Metro train! I really liked the GIANT Train like the one in this picture!

 

 

 

That night we got to go to my daddy’s cousin, Amy’s wedding! I got to dress up like a man, and so did Eli! We didn’t do really good sitting in the church, but my mom found the kids room to play in, then we got to go to another place for dinner and we could see ALL the lights in DC and planes landing! Eli and me wanted to dance really bad, but they took a long time to dance so we just drove our cars instead. Here are some pictures. I think Eli and me are SUPER good looking in suits and ties! My mom said we were handsome.

Halloween!

I got to dress up for school last week! I rode the Metro in my Spiderman costume and everything. A lot of people I walked by and said “Hi Spiderman!”. That was so cOol.

We had a Halloween party at my school. This is a picture of my class that day. We got to go trick or treating in all the church offices, and even my dad’s! Then my mom and Eli and my dad came to my class to have lunch with all of us. We got pumpkin cupcakes (cupcakes are my favorite EVER), and got to hit a ghost pinata and candy when FLYING everywhere! (oh, I want to ask the girl with the cowgirl hat on, Ella, out on a date, but my mom said I have to get a job first)

Then the next day Aunt Shelby (I call her Aunt Burnie) and Uncle Tanner (I call him Mr. Conductor Dinosaur) came to visit us in DC! That night we got to go near the Capitol and trick or treat and see people dressed up. I wore my evil Spiderman, Venom, costume!

Eli was supposed to wear one of the Spiderman costumes but it was too big, so he had to wear our old Zebra costume. We only got ONE piece of candy from that night, I got a lot at school, but no one was handing any candy out! I did get a kiddie keyboard and mouse for our computer though. My mom and dad laughed at that, I was just SO sad I didn’t get MORE candy.

I love Aunt Burnie & Uncle Mr. Conductor Dinosaur… I cannot wait for them to come back soon for Thanksgiving! I ask my mom every day if it’s Thanksgiving yet!

DINOSAUR TRAIN dinosaur train…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Every Wednesday is my daddy’s day off. We get to go do something fun as a family! I LOVE Wednesdays!

One Wednesday we went to the Smithsonian Institute’s Museum of Natural History. There were so many cOol things there! I can’t wait to go back and look more. There were so many animals. When we walked in the first big room with a dome roof there was a huge elephant! Then we saw the Ocean room. That was my mom’s favorite. It was really neat. There was a giant whale! There were so many rooms with so many different animals. How did God think of all the different ones to make?

We also got to see dinosaur bones! They were really big and scary looking. I like dinosaurs though. T-Rex is my favorite, like Buddy is, on the new tv show I like called Dinosaur Train!

I even gave my new uncle Tanner a new nick name from that show, I call him Mr. Conductor Dinosaur now. 🙂 They came and visited last weekend, I will tell you stories from that soon. But I have a lot to catch up on first.

Quack Quack!

I got to ride on a Duck Tour in Washington, DC! It was lots of fun! We went for our new pastor’s birthday with a bunch of our new friends and it was the coolest! We got on a boat that had wheels and drove all through the city!

I got to see the Washington Monument, the Capitol, Lincoln Memorial and the Pentagon. We then drove the boat/bus into the water!!! It was awesome. We seriously just drove straight in the water without stopping! We got to go under bridges, then over to Reagan National Airport where we rode through “roaches run”. We didn’t see any roaches though, just turtles. The airplanes took off RIGHT over our heads, it was super duper loud. Eli kept yelling “loud! loud!”.

On our way back to Union Station the driver gave us all Quackers. There were like 30 of us, and we were all Quacking, it was funny. I think I was the loudest. We Quacked the Happy Birthday song! If you go to DC, you should do a Duck Tour, it’s super cool!