It's a Fall medley

We went for a walk in the woods with my class and we gathered a collection of twigs, branches and pine cones. I made a fox with my things. You like it?

It was finally time for a break and of course Maman had a lot of cooking to do but I helped quite a bit. One day I made cookies and Maman was my assistant. I read the recipe and told her what ingredients to get and I mixed it all together and voilà, delicious cookies.
Cooking is fun because you get to do math too and I like math. Maman kept doubling recipes and she would aks me to help figure out how much was needed; she was surprised when it said 1/2 a cup on a recipe and without hesitation I told her she needed 1 cup; or when it needed 100 grammes and I said she needed 200 grammes.
I even drew and wrote about what I did in my journal that I brought from school. And if you know me, you know it's quite something since I am not a fan of either drawing or writing.

Time off from school is always a good time to explore and do new things... Ok, roller skating is not a new thing but since I get to do it every 6 months, I am not making much progress yet. I still have fun though! And while everybody was gently wanting to hold Chipper the squirrel's paws, I worked at at keeping my balance to get close to his tail and pull on it really hard. Yes, I am not known for being very serious... more the goof ball variety.

But here is a little video that will show you that, indeed, balance on 4 wheels is not yet quite achieved on my part...

I was mainly excited about the second part of my week off. I was going to Mount St Helens to see the volcano AND I was going to Great Wolf Lodge to splash all day in the water.

I was so, so excited that for the first time ever I wanted to write without being prompted. I wrote the schedule of the first day and kept it close to me all day to make sure we were being on time.

It turned out that although I really wanted to see the volcano, the main fun at the mountain was the snow! You can see that in the little video...


We then headed to my most anticipated place: Great Wolf Lodge.  And I did have a lot of fun there. The big slides were a little scary though... but the wave pool had to be my favorite thing!

We stayed a day and a half. Barely enough for me, nearly too much for the Ps. The place is crowded for sure and it's also super noisy. See for yourselves.


Soon enough it was time to go back to school. Maman had been quite busy making my Halloween costume and I bet that not many of you would have guessed what I wanted to be. See, I am into sciences and I have been enjoying the books of the Magic School bus, wanting to listen to the stories again and again. It's in the one of the human body that I learned all about White Blood Cells and that's why I wanted to be one. Guess what ? I saw nobody else at school with the same costume but sure got a lot of questions about mine.

On Halloween night, I have once again enjoyed giving out candies to the kids coming to our door. Since I am not asking to go trick or treating, the Ps are apparently fine with that and have never suggested that I actually could...
Anyway, I got quite a few comments on my costume and there were even some young teens going down the stairs asking themselves what White Blood Cells were. I guess I was an educational character.

While we were waiting for kids to come to the door, Maman was filling out her ballot and I kept asking questions about the measures she was trying to decide on. I would obviously give my opinion and at one point I exclaimed: "I hope there are more people reading and deciding for those new laws than people going trick or treating." Maman said that I was en route to being a great citizen with this kind of thinking. But enough talking, here is the video.


To end this Fall medley, I put pieces of me and some of the experiments I do alone or with the help of the Ps. I have many ideas on seeing how things work. Many of them are not practical they say, some of them are quite dangerous and for others I am learning that sometimes my best intentions fail.

Like sending a rocket in the air by lighting the string attached to the bottle/rocket hoping the burning would build enough pressure to send it flying: kids, it does not work and makes quite a melting mess out of the plastic bottle. But the fun is in trying, right?
Enjoy- signing off for now.
Noah