The Excitement

Santa made a surprise visit to our apartment!

I had a strong finish to school before Christmas break. Unfortunately my teacher won't be back at school when we get back because she is having a baby, but I am hopeful that the permanent substitute that will be teaching us will be a good teacher. A few weeks before taking break, I had a project for our unit on weather. For it, we had to make a poster presenting the weekly forecast for a city in another country. I studies maps for quite a while trying to select a city and ultimately chose La Paz, Bolivia. Mom was impressed at how motivated I was to create my poster. If I could have, I would have stayed up late and finished it the first night! There was no grade on my poster, but it turned out great!
To celebrate the last day of school before break, Mom and Dad took us out to dinner and afterwards we went to the Chinese Lantern Festival! All of the lights were so fun to see; my favorite lantern was the whale. It was a huge lantern that was set on water and there was colorful coral all around it. The color changing swings and animatronic dinosaurs were also enjoyable. It was a great way to spend a Friday night!

A Model Thanksgiving

Okay, so it wasn't exactly a "model" Thanksgiving because Dad was sick and missed out on the fun and we left a day early, but I still had a blast at Grammie and Gramps' house. I think I impressed everybody with my modeling capabilities because I decided to make a model copy of a ceramic turkey as a fun activity. I used model magic to put the shape together and after it dried, I painted it! My masterpiece looked so good we used it as a centerpiece for the table for Thanksgiving dinner. I also made place setting name tags for everyone so they knew where to sit! Additionally, I also enjoyed helping the guys in the basement carve the turkey before dinner.

I was one busy guy during our trip although I was also able to relax too though. The night we walked downtown to look at all the lights before celebrating Dad's birthday with a cake! On Thanksgiving we watched the Macy's Parade and hung out. I especially had fun joking with Uncle Matt when he arrived. Thanksgiving dinner was yummy (except for the pickles that everyone wanted me to try!) and I enjoyed playing games before dessert of pumpkin pie!
The next morning I was disappointed to hear that we would have to go home a day early because it seemed like everyone except me was getting sick. Oh well, I made the best of my time at Grammie and Gramps' house and enjoyed the holiday!