| Prince of Smiles |
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| School awards assembly, 2nd grade |
| Scout awards night...and proud of his missing teeth! |
| A sixth grader now, his latest writings are at the end. |
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| Top of the Ramp - Summer, 2005 |
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| Butterfly Landing |
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My Washington, D.C. Trip
As dictated to his grandmother - April 22, 2006 In Virginia, we had a lot of fun. The first sight we went to was called Monticello, which means "little mountain." The owner of Monticello was the great president, Thomas Jefferson. He played on a mountain when he was a little boy. When he was an ambassador to France, he got ideas for his house, so it went from an eight-room house to even more than that. He also had a sixteen- foot deep icehouse where he kept ice all summer from the winter. He had tons of books in a place called the study. His bedroom was hooked to his workroom. He also had these windows that were open that his children could yell out and wake him up when they needed to. He had an orchard that was shaped like a "U." He also had a room by his gardens that he could sit out and watch his birds, while his kids played around on the floor. The second historical place we went to was the Arlington National Cemetery, where we saw John Fitzgerald Kennedy's grave. Right next to it were the graves of some members of his family, and if you look up, you can see the everlasting torch, the Eternal Flame. It's burning because it has a good supply of air and fuel. While we were there, we got to see the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Twenty-four hours a day, there is always a soldier guarding the tomb. Every thirty minutes the guard switches out. The new guard has to go up to a sergeant and get checked in his uniform. From there we went to a southern general's house and the person who owned it is called General Lee. He was a five-star general in the time of the Civil War. His house has two stories also. He used to be a Union soldier. He married one of George Washington's relatives named Martha. The girls had a dressing room where they could play and dress. After the Civil War, General Lee never came back to the house again. Nobody knows why not. The next historical place was the Korean War Memorial. It's where it talks about the Korean War. There are these big statues of a bomb-finding unit looking for a land mine. Somewhere in between, it tells you how many people are missing, how many died, how many wounded, and how many countries were involved with it. After that, we strolled along the way to the Lincoln Memorial, where we saw two of his famous speeches, one called the Gettysburg Address, and the other was called ---------. It was exciting just to know I was near a statue of one of the biggest statues of Abraham Lincoln that you'll ever find. He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. Next, we took a mile-long walk to visit the World War II Memorial. There's a big ball that lists the names of every person who was killed or wounded. Then a few minutes after that, we went all the way to the Washington Monument. There we got to take fun pictures about us trying to hold the whole thing. Then we played this fun thing on the benches around it, because we were sliding around. Then a few days after that, we went to the Holocaust Museum. It's where it shows about the cruel World War II when Hitler killed all the Jews. Only a few survived. A few people stayed in the basements of bombed buildings, but soon German troops came to raid them and take them to these weird camps. How he killed them is they got all the Jews in line to take a shower, but instead of water coming out, it was toxic gas and people died. And then the German troops would haul them out, throw them into a room, and then wait for other people to die. It was scary because it had pictures of bloody people. One day after that, we went to the Air and Space Museum where we got to see the Bell X1, the Friendship 7 space capsule, and we also got to see Sky Lab. The Bell X1 was the first plane to break the speed of sound. Sky Lab was the first house thing in the sky. While we were there, we went into a movie theater to see a 3-D movie called "IMAX Fighter Pilot." It was about a red flag mission where an F-15 pilot flew and shot fake missiles at other teams. It was awesome; you got see it from three points of view: the cockpit, from a radio plane, and from the enemy's cockpits. Then we went upstairs, and we got to see the real Wright Flyer. Then after we left there, we went to the National Artifacts Museum, where we got to look at dinosaurs and a really rare stone called the Blue Diamond. Shortly after that, we ran across the street to check out this place called the National Archives. It's where we saw the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. We also got to see the Emancipation Proclamation. They were hard to read because people years ago had flash cameras and flash cameras ruin the ink on them, so they don't allow flash cameras there. They would prefer digital cameras, where you can turn the light on and off. |
| My Gift
December, 2006 My gift would be given to all the homeless people in America. My gift would be 1 million dollars to house everyone. I would do this because there are multitudes of people without homes. It would help by getting people without homes, homes so they can focus more on health than on getting a home. It will help our country in becoming more prosperous. |
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| British Soccer Camp, Summer, 2006 |
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| Turning double digits, Summer, 2006 |
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| Garth Brooks - Birthday, 2005 |
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| Sunny loved to do this with all the kids. Start of the bird flu? Summer, 2006 |
| Fish, Fish, Fish (written with two friends) February, 2008 Agile fish Enormous fish Skinny, slimy, starving fish Orange, frightening, overweight fish Those are just a few! Bizarre fish Lifeless fish Hideous, creepy, colorful fish Witty, vicious, ominous fish Miniscule fish too! Scaly fish Poisonous fish And don’t forget bearded fish! Last of all Best of all I like scrumptious fish! |