Isaiah’s Blog!

After I came home from school today my Mom found a woolly worm in the backyard when she was taking our dog outside. She brought it in on her finger and let Gideon and I look at it and we both touched it, too.

The woolly worm felt kinda weird and fuzzy. Gideon wasn’t sure about touching it at first, but then he got brave and did. He says that it felt “um, trazy.. it feels like my stuffed twitters… it’s a weird fuzzy thingy”. Mom took some pictures of the little guy after she put him in a container of potted petunias on the back porch. We are hoping that it will stay in the potted flowers and we will be able to watch what it changes into.

White Paw, one of our crazy porch cats, was “helping” Mom with the picture taking and she took a couple pictures of him, too. My favorite is the one of him upside down!

Tonight we are going to an Ice Cream Social at the preschool that Gideon will be going to start at next Tuesday. I went there for two years and really liked it. I think that he is excited about being a big boy and going to school. After the thing at preschool we are headed to Wednesday night Bible study at Vaughn Hill.

This morning was pretty cool!! Dad got Gideon & I up in the middle of the night to drive across the Mississippi river to see the lunar eclipse from the Wetlands area.

At first I was a little aggravated to be up so early, but after we got over to the wetlands and saw the eclipse I thought that it was definitely worth it. The eclipse was interesting because the light on the moon seemed to be moving up and down. It is actually kind of hard to explain exactly what I saw without being there in person to witness it. Dad is going to post some pictures of it for me and maybe that will help with my explanation.

After we finished watching the eclipse, we got back in the van and went home and went back to sleep for a few more hours. Mom and Elsie were still sound asleep and didn’t know that we had gone on our little adventure until we all got up this morning. Gideon really thought that it was cool, too. All day long he has been telling everyone about seeing the “moon up in space” and the “eclipsing moon”.

Well, I started my second week of third grade today. I really like the teacher that I have this year and I think that it will be lots of fun in her class. One of my best friends, Deep, is in my class again this year.. so that’s pretty cool.

Third grade is harder than second grade was, but Mom keeps telling me to stay positive and decide to do well and I will. Tonight I had a lot of homework. Mom helped me work through it and I got it done pretty quickly. I had 14 spelling words to write 3 times each, a reading page with questions to answer and a math practice page, too.

I am looking forward to doing lots of science projects and reading Accelerated Reader books and working on the computers in our classroom this year, too. Ms. Colley lets her students do a lot of cool stuff.

Over the weekend we had a big garage sale at my Grandparent’s house. Gideon and I sold canned sodas and bottled water. Together, we made $16.00 with our drink stand(Uncle Mark and Aunt Rupie gave us extra money to boost our sales total). We are going to have another sale with Uncle Mark and Aunt Missy in a few weeks, too. Mom is selling all of the baby boy’s stuff that she had been saving since I was a little kid. Since Elsie is a girl, she doesn’t need to save all the boy stuff anymore.

Sunday morning we all got up early and drove up to Hardin, Illinois so that Dad could preach at the Indian Creek church of Christ. He preaches up there every few months and we all enjoy going with him for Bible study and Worship. The people there area really nice and we went out to lunch with some of our friends from there, too.

Also over the weekend, we got to visit with our Cousin Patty who lives in Queen Creek, Arizona-not very far away from where Grandpa Roger lives in Mesa. She was in Illinois visiting some of her Aunts and Cousins this past couple of weeks. We all went to Uncle Mark’s house for a while in the afternoon and then we went out to dinner together, too.

The library end of summer party was a cuple of nights ago. I enjoyed listeing to Shanta the african - american story-teller I coud tell a few but of cource then I woud still be here at midnight tipeing but she has some good ones.

On Friday.. hold onto your chair, I(Gideon & Dad, too)got to see WALKING WITH DINOSAURS at the Scottrade Center. We ate dinner at Union Station, then we walked back to the Scottrade Center to see the show.

My Great Aunt Ruth(or Rupie as we call her) bought tickets for the three of us to go to the show. When we got there and started looking for our seats, they told us that we had to go to customer service to get new tickets because the upper level where our seats were supposed to be was closed for the evening. Evidentally they had made the tickets so.. expensive that they didn’t sell out for the night, so we got closer seats when they gave us our new tickets!

It was really loud and I plugged my ears for part of it, but it was super COOL! My favorite part of the show was when the Platosaurus and the Linstisises(an egg eating dinosaur from the first triasic period) fought each other. It was a lot of fun to watch. Gideon thought it was cool, too. His favorite part was when the baby T-Rex came out and roared at the crowd.

Dad let us get a cool program from the show, too. It has color pictures of all the dinosaurs in the show and also shows some of the behind-the-scenes stuff. But you don’t have to take my word for it… take a look at some of the video that Dad took when we were there!

I have had a busy summer so far: going to Camp NeoTez, Summer Science Program, swimming, going to Vacation Bible School and playing Bionicles. I have also been reading a whole bunch!

This is the 4th summer that I have participated in the Summer Reading Program through the Hayner Library in Alton. This year’s theme is “Mission: Read”–since I like space stuff, I think it’s pretty cool. So far I have read over 50 hours! I was also the 2nd kid to get my name on the “Wall of Fame” at the Children’s library–to get your name on the wall you have to read 30 hours. Next week is the big end of summer party and I will get to pick out a brand new book from my age group as one of the prizes for being in the program. They also have drawings during the party—a couple of years ago, Dad & I got tickets to see the Gateway Grizzlies baseball team. They have neat prizes you get to choose from–Target gift cards, Cardinals baseball tickets, books & other cool stuff.

Today I am going to St. Louis Mills to shop and play in the indoor playground with Mom, Gideon, Elsie, Grandma Nanie, Aunt Missy, Cousin Taylor & Cousin Gabby. We are going to have lunch with Dad today, too. He only works about 5 minutes from there.

Tonight is our Vacation Bible School carnival & cookout at church. I have had a lot of fun at VBS this week. I also memorized a new Bible verse every night, too. Tonight at the big VBS carnival, my class gets to do a skit for everyone. Gideon’s class is doing something special, too. Our lessons were based on the parables of Jesus. My favorite lesson this week was about the Good Samaritan. It was pretty cool last night– Gideon got up in front of everyone in the auditorium and said his memory verse for the week “Love the Lord your God with all your heart.” He is the only kid in the 2 & 3 year old class that memorized it!