Super Boy

Mom and Dad recently introduced me to The Incredibles movie and I LOVE it! I have been running, jumping, bouncing, and sliding around here pretending I'm a super hero. Sometimes I'm Mr. Incredible, sometimes I'm "Dash" and sometimes I'm "Frozone" freezing Mom, Dad, Marlie and Blythe in their tracks. I like to jump in my bouncy house and be a super hero too. 

What else am I up to? Well I just had my last day of basketball yesterday. I shot the ball at the hoop. I hit the rim a lot and then I made one! Once I made it I was done. Dad said I wanted to go out on a high note.

My Dreams

I've recently been talking a lot more about dreams. I understand what they are now and remember a lot of my dreams. I usually tell Mom and Dad about them right away in the morning when I have them.

One dream I have a lot is a scary one about a bear. It's a big bear that chases me and tries to eat me. I run and try to get away.

I told Mom about a couple more of my dreams today.

One is about Daddy being a ghost. He closes his eyes and white light eyes shine out. That one is just a little bit scary, but not too bad. In my dream he talks to me and says, "I'm a ghost." I'm not sure if he's pretending to be a ghost or if he's really a ghost in my dream.

Another dream is that while I'm playing my Leap Frog game and an animal comes out of the screen and tries to bite my arm. At the very end of the game I say, "How do you play this game?"

Those are some crazy four (almost five) year old dreams, huh? If I have more I'll share them with you.

A Trip To Japan

Well....not a real trip I guess. It was just a pretend trip. This morning before school I asked Dad, "will we take our car to Tokyo" That's when he and Mom told me we weren't REALLY going to Japan - just pretend. Each of my school friends and I had a Passport though - that Ms. Allison made for us. Complete with our photo and name.

For the past month we've been learning a lot about Japan at school. While learning we have also been busy making things all leading up to our trip to Japan. We invited our parents to join us at school for our trip. Our class also enjoyed some Japanese food. Mom made fried rice but I didn't try any. Most of my school friends liked it. We got to try eating with chop sticks.

Some of the things we learned during our Japan lesson are: How to count to five in Japanse "ichi, ni, san, shi, go", how to say Good-bye "Sayonara", we learned about koi fish on boys day. On boys day the boys were allowed to wear hats to school. On girls day they were allowed to bring a doll to school and they made a Japanese doll. We all made Japanese lanterns, origami and Japanese flags. We had a wish tree where we each made a wish and hung it on there. We also invited our parents to make a wish.

We also made our own little volcano one day. We had a picture of on the wall. When I showed it to Mommy I said, "Do you want to know the secret?" She did so I told her, "It's not a real volcano. It's just pretend."

We also had some real Japanese items to try on and play with. There were Japanese kimonos, wooden shoes and a couple different Japanese games.

My Japanese Flag

Japanese Garden

Me and my Japanese Lantern by the Wishing Tree

Trying out some of the Japanese Games

My Origami

My Koi Fish

It was a really fun lesson and school and fun showing Mom all of the things we learned and did.

Know It All?

Dad and I had a conversation this morning. Here's how it went.

Me: I know everything!
Dad: You don't know everything.
Me: Yes, I do.
Dad: What's 800 + 800?
Me: Well, I don't know that number!
Dad: Then you don't know everything.
Me: What's 101 + 109?
Dad: 210
Me: WOW! I'll have to remember that!