eclipse of the moon

joel and mom go outside:

Joel: "look at the moon. it's turned into a planet.
wow. look at all the stars. can we sing twinkle twinkle to them?

twinkle, twinkle little stars, how i wonder what you are
up above the world so high. like a diamond in the sky.
twinkle, twinkle little stars. how i wonder what you are.

the stars are happy now. can we go inside and get warm?

that was SO beautiful"

when i'm big....

i'm going to drive in my car to the toy shop and buy lots of piggy banks.
what are you going to do with them?
i'm going to put money in them and take them to people's houses.
and what are they going to do with them?
then they can go to the toy shop and buy lots of toys for them

Valentine's day

Valentine's is BIG business in canada. it's a little bit confusing, because my soccer coach is called valentinos, and so i thought he was having a birthday party with a soccer ball cake, but apparently that's not the case.

I had a special envelope at school as a mailbox for all the valentines my classmates gave me. we had to give a card to everyone in the class or no one. mom didn't want to help me make 18 cards (plus 2 for the teachers) so we settled for none. i did get some interesting ones though: a spiderman one wishing me a 'webful of excitement', a barbie one and a cars one, as well as hearts and flowers and mushy stuff. we even had to colour a heart at school as a valentine's for our moms.

mom and i went to the library in the afternoon and i had my backpack with me containing mom's card. someone's granny stopped to talk to me while i was doing some computing, so i took the card out of my bag and gave it to her. she asked if she was meant to keep it and of course i said yes. my card is now proudly displayed on a granny's fridge. it's the first valentine's card she's had for years, and it made her very happy. i told mom the old lady looked as if she needed something to make her happy because she looked a bit sad, and i can always make mom another one if she wanted.

Going to Safeway

ollie and mom and i go to safeway's on a regular basis. they've got a great fire truck that doubles as a trolley. ollie and i drive around the store going brrrrm, brrrrm while mom tries to grab a few things we need. it's not long before ollie gets fed up, and wants to walk. that works for a few minutes until he starts pulling things off the shelves at which point we go and visit the cookie lady. if i ask nicely she gives ollie and i both a chocolate chip cookie ! this serves as mom's three minute warning - just long enough to dump a couple more things in the trolley and it's time to go.
however.....today we went to safeway on a field trip with school. we went inside the freezers where they store the icecream. we spoke to the butcher and the flower lady. we even went to the bakery counter but..... ...the cookie lady pretended she didn't even know me!!!

if i had my way, any time is dora time

i'm getting really good at telling the time on my thomas clock. i know when it's 7 o'clock (time for breakfast) and 4 o'clock (time for Dora). i'm a little more vague about when bedtime is though!

it was too early today

dad said at 7am that he was going to church to play music with the youth band today. i told him it was too dark. "why is it too dark to go to church?" asked dad. "because you can't see the blue colour". honestly dad, what a silly question. he went when it was a bit lighter.