Benjamin's Page

Here are our latest pictures. We have been really bored because it is so hot. Too hot to swim. Yesterday we went to Cyberstation and played games and then went to see the Ant Bully. We bought a pair of tan shorts on sale at Sears. Last Thursday I went for open swim at the Phillips pool and swam for the entire 2 hours! I have been riding around the lake at Wesleyan college every night and I am going real fast. Every time Grandma and Cinnamon walk around once, I go twice. Last night we stopped to watch an outdoor concert and Cinnamon killed a baby mouse.
We have one 3 more chapters in Runaway Ralph and I am half way done with the Dick and Jane book. I decided that the online reading was boring and harder. I don't like to make mistakes!
Next week I have one last gymnastics and my last piano lesson. Erin will be coming to watch me for Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Then Friday we get ready to go to Angel Fire!! Yeah.. cooler weather. Grandma found the travel yahtzee game for the car and the DVD player. It will be a long drive!

This is a picture of my family; the sun, me and Daddy body surfing, the puffer fish, and a rocket ship

July 20

Whoopee, I paased my lionfish class. Now I am a Dolphin!!

July 17

Hi, Here are my new shoes and now I have some golf clubs. Grandpa took me to the golf course today and we had lots of fun, but it was hot. I can do a canonball off the diving board at swimming and can swim all the way accross the pool at the deep end. Yestday we went to see the Planetarium movie Oasis in Space and I learned that Europa is water and ice. Bye for now

July 15

Pictures of my rocketship that Granpa made for me, Me eating the first tomato and playing with Blues Clues and Cinnamon and Poppy.:

July 9

Hi Mommy and Daddy, Grandnpa and Cinnamon and Poppy came home last night. Me and Grandma got the oil changed in the car and then went to the carwash and then to Albertsons. We went to Braums after dinner and I had 2 scoops - orange sherbert and mint chocolate chip. Me and Grandma went shopping yesterday at Gap, Penneys and Sears and got some nice school clothes. 2 pair of shorts and 1 jeans, 2 long sleave shirts and 3 polo shirts, and a hoodie. I like them all, especially the yellow and orange shirts and the hoodie. I definitely need slim pants. I also found some shoes that I liked, but grandma thought I should wait until we go to the mountains. We went and visited Libby while she was working at American Eagle. Here are my pictures:

June 29th

Lookee, and I jumped off the big diving board today!

June 27th

Lookee, and I jumped off the big diving board today! Hi Mom and Dad. Today I had a very good day. I practiced the piano and learned twinkle(Peanut Butter and Jelly, Mom) Grandma thinks that maybe Suzuki would suit me better. But I did real good at my other practice, too. Also, I jumped in the pool in the deep end all by myself. Grandma came to my swim lesson to make sure I didn't forget that I could do it. Then we went to Aunt Carla's in the afternoon and I jumped in the deep end and swam across the whole pool. Grandma taught me that when I needed a breath, all I had to do is roll over on my back! It was fun. I get to be in Lionfish for the next swim session and learn freestyle and backstroke, which I already to pretty good. I am real proud of myself.

Oh yeah, oh yeah. And Erin brought a Mickey Mouse game to play today and Libby marked the driveway for playing basketball and Grandma rented the Superman Movie and also Mary Poppins so I can see what Supercalifragilisticexpalidocious is. Whew, no time for reading today.

June 20th

Hi Mom and Dad and Georgia. Boy have I been busy. Guess what? I cam swim! I am doing so good in my swim class this week, I'll be moving up to the next class soon. I have been swimming at Aunt Carla's, too. I go when Libby teaches aa lesson to a little girl. I can do front and back floats and a little bit freestyle and today I learned a little back stroke. I just have to jump in the deep end to pass my class. Me and grandma are practicing sitting on the bottom and then swimming up.

I am also reading great and Grandma is halfway through the Mouse and the Motorcycle. On Saturday we went to the Tulsa Zoo and saw a really cool butterfy exhibit. This week I am going to VBS at the Nazarene Church. They are doing a program on the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. And every night I have to walk through a wardrobe with lots of coats to get in. Here are some new pictures:

June 11th

Yestday I went to the Tulsa Air and Space Museum and got to sit in the cockpit of a real plane. It was so cool with all the switches and dials. Grandma operated a Space Shuttle arm to move objects around and the guy said she was good enough to be a payload specialist. We saw a little movie like the next space shuttle, called the Space Plane and pretended to take off from Spaceport Oklahoma on a trip to the moon. We saw an animated movie at the planetarium, but we will go back to see the star movie some other time. It was fun. I got a Thuderbird poster and a Blue Angel plane toy. I got to see a humongous f-14 airplane. Last night we had dinner and Grandpa was getting ready to go to summer camp with Poppy. Grandma did my laundry and Libby and Jon had a bunch of friends over to play Poker. We read 2 chapters from The Mouse and Motorcycle and played Connect 4 on my new traveling connect 4 game. I really like it because it zips up into its own little case. I did 2 lessons on my phonics program. I am now on lesson 20. I am reading great. I read all the labels on packages in the kitchen.

This morning I went to church and the teacher said I was the best one. I really listend to the story and did a great picture of the Isrealites going through the Red Sea, which is now called the Dead Sea, because it's dead. And I wrote the name of the book from the Bible all by myself! We came home and had lunch and Grandma filled the bucket with water and I played with the water gun while Grandma and Cinnamon watched. I finished my cool picture of a parrot. I hope you like it. It is very hot here, so maybe we will go the Dollar theater to see Shaggy Dog. Maybe we will go see Cars this week some time. Bye Bye for now! I love you and Daddy and Georgia.

June 6th

Hi Mommy and Daddy and Georgia, Today was another busy day. At swimming lesson, Jon helped me paddle across the pool. Then Jon made me a grilled cheese sandwich for lunch. I had my first piano lesson this afternoon. I had a lot of fun! Grandma and Grandpa and I went to Monterey House for dinner. Grandma got me a cool reading phonics program called Click N Read. It is all online and even Georgia can use it later on. It has 160 lessons and I am on lesson 5. I have missed almost nothing so I get to go to lesson 10 tomorrow. I am supposed to do one lesson a day and only 5 lessons a week. It goes up to 3rd grade. Then I watched Reading Rainbow and played Mastermind. Grandma read me the first chapter in Alice in Wonderland and finally I practiced piano. Whew!! another busy day! I am sleeping great, by the way. Bye. BCL.

June 5th

Today I had n Ice Age waffle for breakfast. I went to swimming lesson and the water was col. But I jumped in anyway. Jon is my teacher. We did bobs and push offs and other stuff. There are 4 kids in my class. Then I came home and had pizza for lunch. Libby took me to the library and I got some books. The Mouse book was checked out. Then I went to gymnastics. I did forward and bacward roll, trampoline, tripos, and parallel bars and rings. We did some pushups. Me and grandma went to sonic and then I am playing on the computer and watching reading rainbow. Tomorrow I just have swimming. Bye, Bye for now BCL.

June 4rd

On Sunday I went to Sunfest and made a paper helocopter and a coke bottle with colored sand and I had rainbow DippinDots. I got hot and my feet hurt. This morning I went to church at Amanda's church and had sunday school with Miss Cindy(she has a 1 year old little girl). I got a cool top at Sunfest to put rubber bands on. I played my I Spy and with the MiniCooper cars. I had a Smoothie for breakfast and uncrustables for lunch. Grandpa wanted to take me to see Ice Age, but I already saw it. I played on my bike and scooter under the carport. Busy day. I had chicken nuggets and green beans and pineapple and some Kiwi for dinner. Now I am going to play Didi and Ditto.

June 3rd

Today I came to Grandma and Grandpa Hiatt's house. We had pizza for dinner and then went to the Kiddie Park. I like the bumper cars the best and was the fastest one. I had a rainbow snow cone. I rode on the roller coaster and I used to be scared ot it. I roade in the first car and ny neck was wobbly. Then we went home and it was time for bed. I had a bad dream, so Grandma let Cinnamon sleep on my bed and she found som pretty music. Oh yes, and I read Bears in the Night ALL BY MYSELF!