Ethan – This bridge is made with wood but not real nails. There are only wooden nails to hold it together.
Ethan – Here is a close-up of the wooden nails. They are called pegs. They have square tops. The part that goes through the wood is like a round stick.
Ethan – Here is a picture of some boards with pegs in them. You drill holes in the boards, and then you put the pegs in the holes.
Ethan – I didn’t fit my old helmet, so we had to get a new one, but it was to plain, so I painted my helmet. It looks like spiderman.
Marlon – I painted mine too. Mine is blue, and Ethan’s is red.
Dad – We went for a walk behind the Guelph Lake Sports Fields with our friends Stephen and Evelyn.
Ethan – I saw a garter snake, and I said, “Look, a snake,” and then we chased the snake and Stephen caught it.
Marlon – I touched the snake.
Ethan – The bottom was smooth and dry, but the top was a little bit rough. It squiggled in my hands. When we let it go, it slithered slowly.
Ethan – We found some plants that had some bumps on them. When we opened up a bump, there was a little worm inside. It was a little bit white.
Marlon – I found a bump too. My stick had two bumps on it.
Ethan – I found a caterpillar on the ground. I was just looking on the ground, and I saw it. Dad said we couldn’t take it home (because we had nothing to carry it). It was really fuzzy.
Dad – Here is a link to some more pictures of our walk, and here is a link to some pictures of the scenery we saw.
Ethan – Uncle Cory got us two hermit crabs from the pet store. Hermit crabs are not smart. They walk right off of edges into my hand.
Marlon – I like to pick up the crabs.
Ethan – If you stay still enough, then they will walk on your hands.
Marlon – They live in our tank.
Ethan – Actually, they live in a little cave. The cave is a coconut with a door in it.
Ethan – They can eat anything. They are good scavengers. That means they eat anything they find. They like vegetables, but the vegetables have to be soft, and they have to eat special minerals. These are the special minerals in the little shell.
Ethan – This is a really good picture that I took (Ethan took all the pictures, actually). It’s a close-up picture. You can see the little pincers. The pincers are for picking up their food and for walking.
Marlon – We rode our bikes down to the river. I grabbed a branch, and I climbed, climbed, climbed, and then I stood up, and then I couldn’t get down, so Daddy got me down.
Marlon – There were lots of crazy rocks (slag). They had holes in them. They’re a little bit metal. I put one on my helmet, then it fell down and scraped me on the back, but I didn’t cry.
Marlon – Some trees were turning into dirt.
Dad – They were rotting?
Marlon – That means turning into dirt, Dad.
Dad – I know.
Marlon – Plants were growing on the trees, but only little ones.
Marlon – Mushrooms were growing on some trees too. Mushrooms make trees into dirt.
Marlon – And bugs make trees into dirt too. The bugs make holes in the trees. The bugs did, did, dig, then they make holes.
Marlon – We took a picture inside a tree hole, but no bees were in there. The bees might sting you, and then you will cry.
By Ethan
One day the Blue Beetle was attacking Homadron, the mutant Batman, because Homadron killed Blue Beetle’s brother. The real batman was attacking Homadron’s robot. The robot’s name was Combo. Homadron had a virus that made him a bad mutant, but he used to be Blue Beetle’s friend.
Homadron and Combo were in a skateboard park, and they were knocking all the people off their skateboards. Then Blue Beetle and Batman attacked.
Blue Beetle said, “Stop knocking people off their skateboards.”
Homadron said, “No, I like knocking people down.”
Blue Beetle said, “Attack.”
Then Spiderman came and wrapped up the bad guys. The web hit Homadron so hard that it killed the virus and Homadron turned back into a good guy. Then Homadron fixed Combo so that it was a good guy too.
All the superheroes went back to their base. They had a party with a triple-double-chocolate-chip-cake that had one hundred sprinkles and one hundred candies on it.
The end.
Marlon – We did raking at another house.
Ethan – Our leaves aren’t really falling down yet, but their leaves are really falling down.
Ethan – Then we jumped in the leaves.
Marlon – Then we raked the leaves up, and then we jumped again. We threw the leaves for a fight, and I won.
Marlon – Then I picked some red ones and some yellow ones for taking home.
Ethan – Mine were all red, but just a little bit orange.
Marlon – Then I squished the leaves flat with an iron. It got hot, and I didn’t touch it, because it will burn. We put a towel on the leaves so the leaves wouldn’t burn.
Ethan – We put the flat leaves on some sticky stuff (peel and stick laminate), then we put some more sticky stuff on top, but Dad cut the top piece too short. We ironed it again to stick it together.
Ethan – Then we cut them out, and I did one all by myself, and I was cutting closer to the leaf than Dad.
Marlon – I didn’t cut any out because dad said no sharp scissors. I put the leaves on the window with tape.
Dad – We decided to make some Taureg food when we were learning about the Taureg nomads.
Ethan – First you put this stuff (millet) in some water to do soaking. It’s kind of like cornmeal, but it’s round.
Ethan – Then we chopped some dates.
Ethan – Then we chopped some goat’s cheese. Goat’s cheese is my favourite cheese, because it tastes like goat meat.
Dad – Does it really taste like goat meat?
Ethan – No, I mean, beacuse it tastes like goat’s milk.
Marlon – I don’t like goat’s cheese because it’s sour.
Ethan – Then you mix everything together. Then you put some spices in (cloves and a little salt). Then you cook it.
Dad – We actually made way too much, so I added some flour and milk and eggs to the leftovers and made some really tasty pancakes the next day.
Dad – Pappa Kathy bought Marlon and Ethan a session at The Grotto climbing gymn for Marlon’s birthday.
Marlon – I went climb, climb, climb, and the rope was holding me up.
Ethan – The rope is attached to a harness, and a lady (our friend Alyssa) was holding the other end.
Marlon – I went all the way to the top, and I got the red rock.
Ethan – I went on the wall a little bit, and then I went on the climbing rock. It’s really hard, because you’re a little bit upside down, but you don’t get to have a rope.
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