Life as a Four Year Old

These are some of the stories that Mommy tells me at night (I tell her what comes next).
Four skunks in their favorite tree, campers come with chainsaw, skunks scare each camper away until all four come at once, then they stink 'em. Moral of story: don't mess with skunks, and bring your own firewood.

Four eels living in the coral. Play with slow sea anemones, play soccer with hermit crab, scare school of fish toward eachother and snack on the rainbow fish.

Four "Iron Men" fly with their robot suit jets to Hawaii. Use helmet computer to stay safe through storm. Go for a swim and discover metal sinks. Use surfboards, then turn on jets to go "Whee! Crash! Whee! Crash!" off the waves. Leapfrogging. Have picnic with locals, fly home.

Four giants in the mountains. One throws rocks, one rips out trees, one runs fast, one jumps high. Get mad at eachother, but then decide to play baseball.

Four alligators in the bayou. Catch fish, scare sunbathers on beach, teach baby gators how to chase fish toward each others open jaws.

Four monkeys go to a circus. Take fruit snack with them, see (and play with) jugglers, elephants, clowns, tigers, trapeze artists. Go home to sleep.



My best friends at school, I say, are Emmet, Emma, Julian, Emma Rose, and Tamas.
I love sweets and am very excited about making things with mint that I can pick from the garden. Mint candies made of honey and sugar and mint, or mint tea with honey, or mint rice krispies treats.

I am very interested in bodies, and how babies come out, and I told my big cousin Tory how that works. He didn't believe me at first. Then i started worrying whether that hurts. Mom says it does but then we're happy to have a baby to cuddle. Hmm.

I like doing "homework," one letter every night that I'm learning to trace and copy. It makes me proud and happy. Alex wants to do it too but he's too little, he just draws.

I started trying to read street signs out the window, like a sign in a store window that I thought said "NEPO."
"What's NEPO?" I asked mom.
Mom was confused until she realized I was reading it backward. It said OPEN.

I love having Marsha Days on Tuesday and Grandpa Science Day on Thursday, especially now that Lillian gets to come!

The Academy of Sciences is my favorite.

Oh, and I'm FOUR YEARS OLD now.
My birthday was great - a party at the Bounce House Warehouse! With Tory! Plus people gave me presents all the time for like a week. Christmas and my birthday really turn into one long party. Good times.