With Crampaw

Now that I live in California, I get to do a lot more things with my grandpa (but we call him "Crampaw"). 

With Crampaw, I get to:

1) Play games with him (Hungry Hungry Hippos is the only one we like to play really)
2) Go with him to church a lot of times to help with him fix things.  One time we fixed a box for a speaker and the other time we moved the organ to a storage room.  And we go and pick oranges.
3) Play in the backyard like baseball and light-saber fighting.

But my favorite thing to do with Crampaw is woodworking.  I call it Creative Woodworking. 

We've made 2 bowls, a crane, a hammer, a wheel, a little table, and a shot gun.  First, we figure out what we're going to make.  Then we find the right piece of wood.  If we're making like a bowl or something like that (like a round thing or something), you'll usually want to do it on the lave (lathe).  Because it spins it and you don't have to go all the way around, you put it in one place and it spins and grinds it down.  Then we get it off the lave and we might polish it if we're all done, or sometimes we might have to bring it to the saw or the sander.  We might have to buff it.  But if we're making a bowl or stick or something, it's usually a lot of it on the lave.

I like working with him because as soon as I saw how much stuff he had made out of wood (around the house and on the shelves he has a lot of stuff that he has made) I thought, "Well, he can help me make stuff."  We like doing it because he's the guy who likes doing it and I like doing it a lot, too.  I'm his apprentice in doing woodworking stuff.

Crampaw, if you're reading this, Happy Birthday and thanks for helping me make the woodworking stuff!

Differences

There are differences between CA and AZ.

In AZ, I liked going to FCF.
In CA, I like going to my grandparent's church, RCC.

In AZ, I liked going to Thomas Elementary School.
In CA, I'm looking forward to going to Golden Elementary School.

In AZ, I liked going to all the friends I have at church and school and everything.
In CA, I like going to my 2 friends that have pools and my one-house-away-friend that loves to ride bikes with us.

In AZ, I went to Phoenix and got locked in a bathroom (that was something I DIDN'T like).
In CA, when I was learning how to dive, I jumped I did a belly flop and looked like a scared cat and everyone laughed (and I didn't like that either).

In AZ, I liked having a group of friends called the Fantastic Four (which you heard about in one of my first posts--"Dylan and Lego Club").
In CA, we have a lot of friends in the neighborhood.

Here's a list of things I did in the 4 seasons in AZ:  building a snow fort in the snow, going on field trips in the spring, splashing around in the hose and doing our swimming pool in the middle of the summer, spending Thanksgiving in Tucson, setting up our little Christmas tree and decorating our room with our little Christmas tree with our train going around it.

Here's a list of things I like doing in the four seasons in CA:  in the winter I like spending Christmas with our neighbors (like going outside in the morning and seeing my friend, Andrew drive a new remote control car-type-jeep), going to Legoland or Disneyland in the spring, in the summer I like riding bikes in the street (playing a little army game with Andrew) or going to the beach, and going to San Diego for Thanksgiving and building a fort out of not-cooked spaghetti noodles and marshmallows.

If any of you are moving, I hope you can have as much fun as all the stuff on here (besides the going to Phoenix and stuff) because everywhere is really good.  In know in Kansas City, there's ice skating and stuff, and Atlanta there's a place where there's fish and you can feed the fish, and in Utah there's a lot of ranches which are really fun...so if you are ever moving to one of these places, I hope you can do the stuff I'm talking about.

Changing

I won't be talking anything else about Flagstaff so don't be prepared to hear anything else that you guys know about.

I moved!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I moved to California because my mom and dad think it's just the right thing to do and my dad is trying to get another job. 

So I won't be saying anything else about Flagstaff, I'll be talking about California.  I'm just warning you.

This is Evan hugging our house the last day.

Deer Farm

June 8 I went to the Deer Farm with my grand parents.

This is me and my siblings in Santa`s sled.

This is my sister looking at a deer.

This is my brother with deer antlers

This is me petting a deer.

  This is me looking at reindeer,the reindeer tride to eat my shirt.

I Love Reading

  You  know  I love writing I also  love reading.I would rather play video games but my mom says that my  brain  will turn into mush or mash potatoes.

I loved  reading since I was a baby.

just kidding!

When I was barely 3  I could read Where The Wild Things Are all by my self.




Maybe I just had it memorized?

My favorite books are:
Cam Jansen
Magic Tree House
Little House On The Prairie
And Farmer Boy.
Out of all the books on the list the one I like best is Farmer Boy.
Its about a boy named Almanzo Wilder a farmer boy.

This is me reading with my grandma.

Stories

You know I like writing and here's 3 stories I wrote (sort of).  I'll tell you more about it at the end.

Our School

Thomas is one of America's hideous places of green learning.  The student body is made up of 6 boys and 12 motorcycles.  The motorcycles make the best grades.  Students can eat lunch in the tiny school lunch room, which sells boiled lights and egg sandwiches--with all the apple juice you can drink for only 74 cents.  The principal of the school,  Batman, is raising money to build a new tree library and a new football button.  Any student who goes to this school is very slimy.

DOGS

It's often been said that "A Dog is Man's Best Weed."  Dogs are very whiny and can be taught many yellow tricks.  A dog can be trained to carry a breeze in his mouth.  And if you throw a Mexico, the dog will run and fetch it.  Dogs will also bark slowly if a burglar tries to break into your turtle during the night.  One of the most popular canine pets is the Worm Spaniel.  Spaniels have curly gray coats and sticky ears.  They also have very tall dispositions and live to be 62 years old.  Other popular dogs are the Wide Terriers, German Puppies, and the Deep Poodle.  Every home should have a loyal dog for a black widow.

History of a Famous Invention

The first electric grandma was invented in 1904 by a speedy young man named Mickey Mouse.  He and his brother, Darth Vader, ran a small poison repair shop and in their spare time they studied cavities.  When they started work on their invention everyone said, "Yikes!  You'll never get it off the paint."  But they built a prickly model out of old surprises and a used chocolate.  The model worked fine and in ten minutes it toasted 24 slices of muscles.  It also used up two gallons of blood an hour and the top converted into a booger.  They sold the patent to a scary millionaire for 13 dollars and lived painfully ever after.

The 3 stories that I wrote (sort of) are Mad Libs.  They are stories, there are stories and then there are lines and then they have a word under them.  It says "noun, adjective, plural noun, famous person" and stuff.  I found this book in a pile of my mom's old teaching stuff.  It's actually my grandma's, it's about 30 years old.

You should try Mad Libs,  They're funny and fun.

Dylan & Lego Club

I have three best friends. All of us together is The Fantastic Four. The people in it are Jacob, me, Griffin, and Dylan. Me and Jacob in kindergarten were together and Griffin and Dylan were in kindergarten together. In first grade, we all joined and it made The Fantastic Four. Griffin came up with the name. The Fantastic Four usually plays together. Today we played hunting and Pirates of the Carribean. We're in Ms. Freeman's class. We did do this thing when we made like these little guys and we were going to have a battle and there was teams but then we stopped because Ms. Freeman said we were wasting a lot of paper.

The first one I'll introduce you to is Dylan. This is Dylan and I at Lego Club.  To the right is our base that we made together by ourselves in the first picture.  It's not done yet. 

BEFORE

AFTER

I like Dylan because he's smart, we play together a lot.  He likes Indiana Jones and Star Wars.  It was exciting when Dylan moved three-blocks-and-a-house away.  It takes me about 3 or so minutes to walk there.  I go to his house a lot and he comes to my house a lot.  We both live by the park so yeah, I go to his house, ask him if he wants to go to the park and then we go.  After I ask his mom first.

Welcome to my blog!

I did this blog because I like to write. I write Biscuit (the dog) books, dinosaur books, and right now I'm writing a war book.  My mom says that I shouldn't write a war book.  But she's letting me anyways as long as I don't have blood.

This is my war book.  It is a chapter book.

I hope you like my blog!