Well, nothing happened Saturday. So today I tell you about Sunday First, I had a wonderful lunch of beef roast then I went out the back door with Dad and we got the sled out after Mom gave it a good scrubbing.
Then dad and I made a path for the sled on the big hill in the back yard. Then Gideon and I both got on the hill and slid down it. Here’s a video of Gideon sliding down the path:
well I suppose you should know that I’m doing good now. got over the stomach flu saturday morning . I only had one tough run today too. I fell off the top of the the top of the bunk beds today. other than that I had a pretty good day. how was yours?
I am sick with the stomach flu and it is not fun. I have thrown up twelve times over the course of today starting at 4 am.
And boy, oh boy I am going to hate it when everybody is having supper and I am lying over here on the couch eating ice chips.
I have a fever to go along with it and mom won’t stinking check it for me because she says it’s good for me and that the fever is helping me get better.
I am on clear liquid and ice chips till I sweat out the stomach flu. Not that I don’t like Sprite it just gets annoying when you know you going to puke it all up.
I just wish I could get better, but so far the doctor says I probably won’t be well till Monday.
I wish I could get better but there is not any medicine for me to take, so I’m not too sure about getting better all that quick.
I’ll write another post when I get better.
[transcribed by Dad]
Saturday morning was super cool! We got up early, although not as early as we had all planned, and headed out to St. Louis Regional Airport in Bethalto, IL for their annual Fly-In and Car Show. Our main reason for going was for me to finally get to participate in the Young Eagle program that the Experimental Aircraft Association sponsors. A friend of my Dad’s from work is a member of the EAA and had told us that it was going to be this past weekend.
Young Eagles is a program that gives free flights to kids ages 8 to 17. I am now 8 1/2 years old, so we waited in the registration line for about a half hour. Mom filled out the paperwork and had to sign the back of it agreeing that they wouldn’t sue anyone if the plane I got to fly in crashed with me in it.
After registration we went to “pre-flight” which was kind of hard to understand because of the room that we were in and the man who was trying to explain some basic stuff to us, too. Once that was over we made our way outside and I got in the long line to wait for my turn to fly. My Dad said that we waited about an hour or so before I got to go for my flight.
Our pilot’s name was Jack, he was pretty nice. Two other guys went with me in the plane with Jack. They were putting several kids per flight so that they could get through the huge line faster. Our flight lasted about 20 minutes and was a lot of fun. I will have my Dad post some pictures that he took of me getting into the plane and with Pilot Jack, too. I sat in the backseat directly behind the pilot and on our flight we got to fly over Heritage Days at Lewis and Clark Community College, too.
After we were all done at the Fly-In, we all loaded back in the van and headed out to Heritage Days. My Aunt Rupie, is still on the board and we get to help with set-up for the big living history festival every year. We ate lunch out there on Saturday– I had my favorite, a buffalo burger! The kettle-cooked potato chips were great and I love the lemonade they have at one of the booths, too. Aunt Rupie was in the Children’s Area again this year, so Gideon and I had a blast hanging out and doing the games in there. We went back again on Sunday afternoon, too and it was a lot of fun.
By the end of the weekend, we were all exhausted from all the good times and fresh air that we shared together as a family. It would be hard to top this weekend!
Well, this past Saturday, my Dad and I went to another big model rocket day at Buder Park. We had a lot of fun and the weather was just about perfect. Gideon, Elsie and Mom had a garage sale with my Uncle Mark and Aunt Missy on Saturday while we were busy with the rest of the guys from our Rocket Club. There were also a whole bunch of really cool model airplanes being flown at the park that day, too. We had a good time watching them when we weren’t busy with our own launches.
Dad ended up losing part of one of his cool rockets in a tree, but it was really cool to see. We are going to try and get a replacement for it before our next big launch day. I got to prepare and launch about 10 rockets if you add up all of them. I am really enjoying learning about model rocketry and getting some time to hang out with my Dad by myself, too. Gideon is still too little to be able to go to our Rocket Club events.
I am looking forward to another fun Rocket Adventure on October 6th when Dad and I are driving up to Elsberry, Missouri for another Rocket Club launch day. It’s going to be so.. cool because that is where the guys launch the really big ones! I will be sure to have my Dad take some pictures and maybe a video to post on my blog at our next rocket launch, too.
This past weekend was really fun! It started with Gideon and I getting to spend the night at Rupie’s house on Friday. Saturday morning, Grandma Nanie, brought us donut holes for breakfast, too.
Mom, Dad and Elsie picked us up from Rupie’s house around 11am and then we went home for a little while so that Mom could pack us a picnic lunch. Once she was done packing all the stuff to make sandwiches and some of my favorite chips, too.. we all loaded into to the van and drove down to a neat little park by the Mississippi River to have lunch and play for a little while. We all had a great time at lunch and got to play on the equipment for a few minutes, too. Dad even took Elsie down the twisty slide on his lap! She didn’t cry, but she had a very surprised look on her face.
After lunch we got back in the van and drove over the levee to Alton’s Riverfront Park to tour the LST 325 that was docked in Alton for the weekend. It was really cool and really big! Dad, Mom and I had toured it when I was 4 years old when it was in St. Louis docked by the Arch. I don’t really remember very much about seeing it before and since Mom was pregnant with Gideon the last time we saw the ship, he certainly didn’t remember it either.
As you can see from some of the neat pictures that my Dad took while we toured the LST 325, it is a big boat. I was really impressed by how the technology seemed pretty advanced for way back then. The sleeping compartments were really small. I am glad that I don’t have to sleep in bunks that are that close together. Gideon’s favorite part was seeing the guns. There was a veteran touring the boat right behind us and he talked to my Dad and some other folks about his experience using guns like them when he was in the service.
Mom and Dad bought me a neat “Gator Navy” t-shirt. I wore it to school on Monday and everyone thought that it was really cool.
The story about the LST 325 is really cool. You can learn more about it at http://lstmemorial.org
I had a three day weekend since yesterday was Labor Day and it was packed with lots of fun. Friday night we went to my Cousin Taylor’s 2nd birthday party. It wasn’t a lot of fun for me, cuz Taylor is a girl and she’s 2! But enough said about that. ;)
Saturday we went to the Children’s Library and got some more books. Gideon and I played with the foam building blocks for a little while before we had to get home and eat lunch. After lunch, Dad went to a Postcard Show in Collinsville while we stayed home with Mom and Elsie. Elsie took a long nap and Mom helped Gideon and I get our room more organized. She had been telling everyone that it looked like a tornado hit our room–thanks to her help on Saturday it’s starting to look a lot better now. (yeah right!)
Saturday evening was a lot of fun!! Grandma Joanne came over to our house around 5pm and we all got in our van to go to the big Homecoming Celebration in Bethalto, IL. They have carnival rides and booths with all sorts of stuff there. This was the 4th or 5th year that we’ve gone to the Homecoming with Grandma. My favorite part is getting to do the Bumper Cars with Dad. This year we rode them twice and I got to drive my own car both times. Gideon and I also rode on the kiddie Helicopters, kiddie boats and the Dragon roller coaster(also for kids) together. We all had a lot of fun and the weather was nice and cool, too. Elsie was awake for the whole thing, but was content to ride along in her stroller and take in all the neat colors. After we were done with all our tickets we headed back to the van and decided to go out for dinner at El Mezcal, one of our favorite mexican places.
Yesterday was Labor Day which meant a day off of school for me and a day home from work for Dad. Dad surprised me with a mini-digital camera of my very own when I came downstairs for the day. It is really cool and I have started taking some pictures with it, too. I am hoping to have his help in posting a few of the pictures that I took using my new toy.
At lunchtime we all headed over to my Grandparent’s house for a big Labor Day cookout with my Mom’s side of the family. Dad took care of the grilling for us again this year. We had hamburgers, hotdogs, pork chops and chicken tenders. Everything was really yummy and Mom sent some of the leftover chicken tenders in my lunch today, too. Gideon, Taylor, Uncle Mark and I all went swimming together for the last time this summer at Grandma and Grandpa’s yesterday afternoon. We all had a lot of fun splashing each other. It was more fun once Taylor got out of the pool though because Uncle Mark and I could rough-house a little more.
Gideon started Preschool today and says that it was “really tool”(he means really cool). They got to paint people and they played outside on the playground for a little while, too. Mom took lots of pictures of him this morning so that Dad could see how his first few moments of being a big preschool kid went.
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.