Audrey lost her first tooth!
She was telling Momma, “Momma, my tooth hurts!”
Momma called Uncle Sam the next morning (if you need a good dentist, call Uncle Sam!). Continue reading Teeth
My Weekend 20-22 July 2007
My Great Grandma Bea had her 88th birthday! It was fun. We had cake, pizza!, pizza!, and more pizza! (All right, maybe not that much, but we did have a lot of pizza.) I liked to eat cake, of course.
It was a lot of fun. We got to play with cousins. We played volleyball ( I thought it was called ballyball 🙂 !) We played on the swings and the slides. That’s pretty much all.
The day after we saw Great Grandma Bea, we went to the circus. We saw them put up
the circus tent –the big top! Oma and Opa took us. We got to see them clean horses hooves. We saw little horses, even a hippopotumuses.
In the evening, we all got to see the circus! It was fun. My favorite was the trapeze artists. I liked everything else though. The elephants were fun to watch. The clowns were funny. Very Funny! Very Very Funny! The girls who did the hoola hoops almost never dropped any. One of them dropped only one, but she was pretty young.
Oma bought red snow cones, slurp! They tasted very very very very very (you get the picture) yummy.
On Sunday, we went to the 4-H fair. I had a fun time on a roller coaster. My very first
one! The ride was much much much much (you get the picture) too short, but the roller coaster was big. I lost my stomach a couple of times. Every time it did, I felt like I was losing it twelve times! I went on it with Maryam. It was very very fun.
I went on two rides with Esther (sorry no pictures!). One of them pretty much felt like a tornado, but I know you did not spin that fast. The other people on it did not spin at all, I don’t think they knew how to spin. I also went on one that felt like you were hang gliding. It was so much fun! Momma said it was scary seeing “her little boy” go on all those rides. But, I got to go on them.
It was a very very very very very very very (you get the picture) fun fun fun fun fun weekend!
But, don’t miss reading about this weekend (in a few days).
Science Class 2
The finished product….
It turned the wrong way, I am kind of disappointed. It was not the way we wanted it to, it got stuck. If it went the other way, it would not have got stuck.
It was loud when it was on. It sounded like my “Weasel” robot. Momma says like a dentist’s drill! Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!
Here we are working, and here we are playing!
Here is a roller coaster web site to go to. At this park you can design your own roller coaster! It is neat, cool and fun. I’m going to play it now with Andrea.
Andrea wanted me to say that we have been praying for rain. It rained! We got 4 inches in our pool!!
She also wanted to send more smiles for the day!
Hog tie…
…there is such a thing as a silly question. I asked Daddy “what’s a hog tie” because Momma said something about being hog tied. So, out came the question.
What is a hog tie????
Daddy said it was much easier to show me than to tell me. He said, “go get some rope.”
I got some rope. And guess what happened?
Daddy didn’t tie it very well! 
I still don’t know how Daddy knows how to hog tie.
Science Class
At Science Class I am learning about engines. This is a two stroke engine. I am NOT making a two stroke engine though it does look like it is less complicated.
(Click on the pictures ((they are coooollllllll))) 🙂
On the four stroke engine, the more complicated looking one, if you look at the right of the number toward the circle right above it is called the cylinder block. The one that looks like it is metal is what a cylinder block looks like.
I have learned cylinder block, oil pan, motor stand, pistons (mixes everything up I think) piston heads, piston pins, and piston connectors.
Maybe I will make one of my own.
I will tell you more later. 
Hummingbird Dinner continued
There was a very hungry Hummingbird. So he went to a potato (blech), a lady bug (oh
brother, where did she go?), and then…He flew up to Jupiter! (Do you remember this story? It was started in Two Stories in One.)
And he dipped his beak in the Big Red Spot! Well, as you probably know, Yucky! It tasted like horse radish and chalk; and even more disgusting than that.
So he flew back (it took a looooooooooig time) to earth. Soooo he looked for his house instead of a tree– there was a house! He saw a red hummingbird feeder. Yum! “I want to live here!”
He thinks “that door is open. I might go check there and see if there are any good nesting spots”. So he flew into Daddy’s workshop. He said, “If this is a shed, it isn’t too smelly which makes it seem nicer. It has some nice warm nesting spots, so I might as well nest here. But first I need to check out one of those nice warm looking nesting spots. Ow! It’s too hot. How do I get out?”
He flew around awhile trying to find a way out. He sees my daddy. He flies around, resting every so often, trying to get away from Mr. Humongous. “Hey, I like it in here, don’t make me get out! Oh brother! Don’t hit me! Hey, hey get away from me, not so close! Wait a minute, not so close! Mr. Humongous, what do you ….yipes… don’t try to hit me with that net!”
He sees somebody all in red. “Don’t try to get me out with all that red! I like it in here a lot! I want to make my nest in here!” (This was before the Hummingbird knew me)
“What’s that big blue thingamajigy? Why are you hanging it up?” (Daddy was making the room smaller with a blue tarp). Later…. the humingbird is breathing hard….”you want me out so much, I will just land on your head and you can walk out!” (That’s a good idea, isn’t it?)
“Ah, much better for may aching wings!” Then he flies away, builds a nest to attract a girl friend, and eats lunch.
How do I (Mark) know this story? The hummingbird that this (pretend) true story is based on told me it. He has been telling me too many stories already, and has never told me his name yet. Our friendship is based on the low cost food that we provide at Bird Restaurant II. (There are three of them presently.)
He is married to the most beautiful hummingbird girl you have ever seen. They are expecting their first babies soon.
Here is a picture of him at his favorite outdoor restaurant.
Happy 4th of July
We have been having Lots and lots and lots and ……lots and lots of fun. Firework fun to be exact! Here are some pictures of this weekend!
These pictures are from the Freedom Fest at Goshen Airport. I would recommend it to everybody! We were there all day!
Here is the Dragonator! Isn’t he cute. He ate a Coke can and scared my sisters and brother (who is a troublemator! 🙂 )
First…
…and Momma says, “hopefully the last ever!”….
Audrey broke her collar bone. I don’t know how she fell of the bed or what she was doing.
She cried! I felt the ground vibrating when she cried. She was crying so loud! Momma says it sounded like her extremely tired cry! I wondered what she did.
We were not sure if it would feel better the next day or not. We waited.
The doctor said she broke her collar bone. He said to do nothing, give her Advil, and not to use her arm much.   That’s all the details that I can think of.
She is feeling a bit better.
Pray that she feels better quickly!
Prison Escape!
3 butter flies that wire prisoners escaped Continue reading Prison Escape!
Nature Explorers
Nature Explorer Camp was fun fun fun…my favorite was… (drum roll please) Continue reading Nature Explorers