The concerns of children

Zeke when taking the garbage out : "There was this fly, and I didn't want to hit it..."

Demspey when we are getting ready to leave the house: "Zeke, are you sure you want to tuck in your shirt?"

Oh, okay then

"I was just getting ready for my spaceship to come."

Swashbucklers at the ready

Understanding missed and making the list.

I was so excited when I heard Dempsey say, "I need to obey my mom," and then she repeated herself, "I need my other baby, Mom." Oh well.

For school, Zeke listed all of the states he knew.  Here they are in order:

Utah
Colorado
Alaska
Nevada
Hawaii
Washington
Idaho
North Carolina
South Carolina
Idaho
Virginia
New Mexico
Texas
Wyoming
Georgia
Alabama
Iowa
California

He listed all the states in which close relatives are living.

The Birth Order of the Walter Winsor family to the best of Zeke's knowledge

Rebecca
York
Steven
Marc
Colby
Ammon
Victoria
Bill
Robert
John 
Polly
Darien
Wesley

Pony Express

 

Once I had a trip and I went to a Pony Express Stop.  It was a really nice place.  It had a hotel by it to.  I learned a lot of cool stuff about the pony express, and about the civil war.  I learned about the president at that time.  He was a bad president.  He tried to take over the Mormon church.  I am pretty sure we all know about Buffalo Bill.  He was part of that process too.  He was also part of the Pony Express. First of all he worked with the government, then he became an outlaw.  He was friends with Calamity Jane. It is funny about his story.  He was one of those cowboys you think about when you think about a cowboy.  Calamity Jane is about that too.

The hotel had a lot of stuff in it.  Bathtubs, sinks and all that stuff.  It had a bullet hole from a misfiredgun.  The person who wrote Tom Sawyer even stayed at that hotel once.  I felt like I was staying at a hotel today.  The person who owned it had six children.  They seemed to get along mighty fi ne.  I got to see how they made cloth and all of that stuff.  I like that hotel they had some pretty steep stairs. You got to sit on the porch and everything.  Plus I even got a wooden nickel for finding all the stuff in the hotel and writing down games soliders played and stuff like that. It wasn't worth it.  If I got real nickle with a pony express on it,  I would have liked it a lot better.  

Halloween

At Halloween, we went to Grandma Winsor's house.  Boston, Alex, and the rest of their family were still there.  We went trick or treating two places.  We went to the mall and we also went outside.  I won a hula hooping contest, and I got the new movie, Pirates of the Carribean four.  I haven't watched it yet but I sure am excited.  

I did school while Boston and Alexander were at school.  I went to the Halloween parade. I made a big graph of  the costumes that they had.  I also learned a lot about decimals and fractions and the spaces in between numbers.  I did my chart in fractions and in decimals.  They type of chart was a pie chart.

My mom  cut somebody's hair.  My mom said that she would trade.  He would bring his albino python.  I got to pet it touch it, it even went to the bathroom.  It was big and fat.  It ate two rabbits when it came.  He goes from fatness to a skinny tail.  He can hold himself up by his tail.  I even got to touch his eyeball.  He doesn't even have eyelids. He eyes were really dry.  It can hold its neck up about two feet high.  Did you know that some boa constrictors can eat baby hippos.  He told me about this show on Youtube.  I thought it was pretty amazing, so did my mom.  He also brought a smaller python.  The bigger python was about six times longer than it.  Did you know that the albino can get up to twenty feet long.  The one I saw was about twelve feet long.  He was about a teenager's age in human years.  

Bean Life Science Museum

Zeke learned that:
Indians called a wolverine 'the evil one' and even bears steer clear of them.

Ferrets eat groundhogs.

Kodiac Bears are the largest of bears.

Zeke's Classroom

I am very happy to go to school.  I am also very sad.  I am more sad than happy.  First of all I miss out on all the fun stuff they do at the house.  Like going swimming, watching movies, some of my favorite stuff.  My mom tries to get me to do ahead of school and I don't like it.  My favorite thing is recess and I don't know how much I like that.  I like getting home, even though when I get home it is not really fun.  My funnest day is when I get to spend the whole day with my cousins.  I have more kids my age to play with.  

dempsey

Dempsey is a toulet persenh

drive

me and my dad went on  a 6 our drive  to Colerado it was long

Dempsey can swim.  She propelled herself forward underwater, came up for a breath, went back down and swam to the side of the pool.  She only moved three feet, but still!  She also touched the bottom of the four feet and swam back up.  She loves it.

I am very xsided about  pe it is fun i love it it is the best

In Dempsey's world, some of us just don't measure up...

Dempsey: "That looks like Aunt Megan's car.
Mom: "It does.  A man is driving it though."
Dempsey: "Men drive trucks."

Dempsey: "Who is he?"
Mom: "He's our prophet."
Dempsey: "He's not Jesus though."

the farm

Griffon owns a farm. He has a lot of animals he has a dog to. he has a larg aria  

favorites

My favorite song:  "Dynamite," because I like how it sounds, I like how loud it is.  I have another one, not my all-time favorite.  That would be "Kids in America,"  I like how the tune goes, I like how loud it is.

I have a favorite book, "Fablehaven," I like it because it is full of adventures.  They all meet up into one.

My favorite sport is either karate or soccer.  A game where you did karate while you play soccer would be fun.  I also like baseball and flag football.  I think that I would like to do hockey.  I like dodge ball.  When you have a lot of people it makes it one of the best games.

My favorite foods  are french toast, omelots, and pancakes.  My favorite foods are breakfast foods. My favorite lunch food is macaroni and cheese.  Some dinner foods I love and some are even worse than lunch foods.  My restaurant meal is a cheese roll up from taco bell and chicken nuggets from McDonalds.

The best thing in the world is watching a movie.

bens birthday

 when I went to Ben's b day there were a lot of kids there. we had fun

visits

we had a lot of visits. it was fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun .

First day of school

On the first day of school, I had a lot of fun.  My teacher's name is Mrs. Danes.  She is a really nice teacher.  She gave 5 M&ms to people who were being good.  She chose a backpack carrier to carry all the backpacks for the whole year.  She chose a lunch captain to carry the lunches for the lunch kids.  We had two recesses.  The day went shortly. 
  I can't wait for my fourth grade first day.  My next favorite thing is that I love the shape of our classroom. Our mascot is the hawk.  My classroom masoct is sailing.  She reads us stories everyday. The  first story she is reading in captain Jack Sparrow, the book.  My next favorite thing is talking to my cousins about the first day of school.  I liked the first day of school.

1st day of third grade

                                             "Half nervous, half curious, half excited."

Went back to Colorado

When I went back to Colorado I was really happy to see my dad.  I went fishing with my friend Blake.  It was fun.  When we went fishing we didn't catch any fish.  But we got a lot of bites.  Our bait kept falling off.  We need to watch out more I think.  I also stayed with my Dad.  We had a lot of fun.  What I loved the most was when we went to Flaming Gorge and I saw my cousins and uncles.  I went on the tube.  It was fun.  I went on it with Uncle Tyson.  He was a crazy driver.  My Dad was on there too.  It felt like we went fifty feet in the air on the highest one and the very very end.  The best thing about it was that we had a good time seeing my family.