New Years Eve: Dec 31

Today is New Years Eve!! I got a guitar today from our neighbor! So I started practicing.My old guitar's string broke,so I'm happy to have a new one.We hung up some paper lantern's for decorations.Joy also bought me a red New Years dress.We made a New Year's craft and we will be doing our resolutions,eating pizza and chinese food and watching a movie.We have sparklers for fireworks,some star head bands and a sparkly blue hat for me.We usually celebrate whichever time zone is midnight by my bedtime.I will write which city we celebrated tommorrow! We also made a lego mine city. HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!

Dec 30

We went to the movies for the Summer Bookclub.The movies we've been waiting for are just now coming out.We saw "The Book Of Life" Then I got to do "the claw machine" I won a little dog stuffy I named "Quizno" We also read our book. I played duck tales and watched some episodes as well.

KETCHUP (Dec 22-29)

We did alot of running around just before Xmas.Xmas eve we went for Chinese food with Gramma and Poppa.A yearly tradition.I got to open my new xmas Pj's and we watched "Shrek the halls" and had popcorn.We put out Santa's cookies,emergency key and the reindeer food.Alice and Joy got to open their stockings I made for them!! Xmas day we opened our stockings first,there was some chocolate coal in it.and the tissue snowball you get to unravel.The boys got their presents and so did Cashy.Gramma and Poppa came over.I got a Wii-u,the zelda duck hat (from Nanie and Grampie) and an easy bake oven! Alice and I made oatmeal chocolate chip cookie's in it! Gramma and Poppa gave me a porcelin doll to start collecting.We had dinner.Ham,Roast Beef and Turkey.As well as turnip casserole (another family tradition) We watched "Elf" and I got to to do the chocolate orange.After dinner the 3 of us went to look at xmas lights...there was one of the grinch stealing the lights off of the house!

DEC 18-21

Bella has been working on ABC-ya and Animal Jam (National Geographics) and her other online sites! We have started Xmas break a bit early to get ready since we have all been under the weather,but each day Bella come's up with awesome new idea's for things we can learn about and study!! Yesterday was Joy's Bday! We went for Sushi,I got free Miso soup for wearing my Santa hat! Then we went to Castle Fun Park and played mini golf,went on the bumper cars tried the simulator and played arcade games.Afterwards we went to Gramma and Poppa's for icecream cake.Joy picked the Elsa (from Frozen) one! Today is Yule so we made our wishes like we do every year and read "The Tomten" We also went to "Color Me Mine" and painted some things for Xmas. Trivia: How long is winter on Uranus?? ...............21 years!!!

DEC 17:

Weather: Cloudy Today we made a xmas card for Alice,worked on building in Mine craft.We read some of the Angry Birds Atlas.We are going to catch up on the Penguin Advent. Yesterday was Hanukkah so we are going to learn about that and play with the dreidel! "Hanukkah also known as the Festival of Lights, Feast of Dedication, is an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple (the Second Temple) in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire of the 2nd century BCE. Hanukkah is observed for eight nights and days, starting on the 25th day of Kislev according to the Hebrew calendar, which may occur at any time from late November to late December in the Gregorian calendar. The festival is observed by the kindling of the lights of a unique candelabrum, the nine-branched menorah or hanukiah, one additional light on each night of the holiday, progressing to eight on the final night. The typical menorah consists of eight branches with an additional visually distinct branch. The extra light is called a shamash (Hebrew: שמש‎, "attendant")[1] and is given a distinct location, usually above or below the rest. The purpose of the shamash is to have a light available for practical use, as using the Hanukkah lights themselves for purposes other than publicizing and meditating upon Hanukkah is forbidden.[2] Other Hanukkah festivities include playing dreidel and eating oil based foods such as doughnuts and latkes. Hanukkah became more widely celebrated beginning from the 1970s, when Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson called for public awareness of the festival and encouraged the lighting of public menorahs." My favorite part of today was: I got a sprinkle donut from Tim Hortons,which we later realized went with Hanukkah My least favorite part was: arguing

DEC 16

weather-cloudy I worked online,and showed Joy the land of Pooyoo's...they had shapes,and dancing and recess games I also worked on my "emotions journal" My favorite thing was: Joy My least favorite thing was: that we argue

DEC 15:

Weather: Cloudy Today Bella made a Santa hat out of lego. And we are going to work on something online Bella is wanting to show me.We are also going to catch up on our Penguin advent calendar. Joy bought stuff for her Ugly Sweater Birthday Party we are having on Saturday. Terrarium: Our conclusion is we have to leave the lid open otherwise the fern will die b/c otherwise the jar gets to foggy and hot.So we will try and figure out how to fix it...it may be b/c there was to much water.Or maybe b/c the size of the plant is to big for the size of the jar My favorite part of today was: nothing My least favorite part was: everything