Target Golf

Daddy and I were playing golf in the back yard last night. I came up with a new game that daddy really liked. The way the game works is that you pick out a target which, in this case, was my clubhouse. Each golfer's job is to hit the balls from a designated point to the target. I made a couple of balls into the target. It took Daddy many tries.

Balloon Baseball

I have lots of ideas about what I'd like to do when I grow up, but my latest is that I want to be a baseball player. I'm going to be as good as Frank Thomas and play for the Oakland A's. To practice, Daddy and I play balloon baseball sometimes. Today's matchup was game 7 of the World Series between the A's and the Phillies. The A's were the home team. As usual, ace pitcher Danny Haren was on the mound for the A's while Brett Myers took the hill for the Phils. Haren ran into trouble in the first inning and was relieved by Marco Scutaro (huh?). He did better. It was a seesaw contest marked by a 3 run HR by Milton Bradley. Eventually, Frank Thomas came in to pitch. In my games, he's also a good pitcher as well as a good hitter. Eventually, Eric Chavez won it with a 2 RBI double in the ninth. The other players mobbed Chavez in celebration.

Let's go Oakland!

Birthdays galore

This weekend I had a busy social calendar---two birthdays in two days. The first, for Sophia Luccio, was a garden party. I got to plant a marigold in a pot and put some nasturtium seeds in one of those seed grower thingies that expand when placed in water. I also managed to find an earthworm in her yard. I showed all the guests the worm while we were eating cake. Later, the worm got to visit Sophia's clubhouse inside her house. Apparently, that was a bit much for the worm and for her Mom. Once we found the worm, we put it back outside in the yard.

Gear Dragon

This afternoon, Mommy and I made a very col creature--a dragon made completely of gears. First we built the body of the dragon with various supports and gears. Then, I came up with the idea that the dragon should have fire breath. We built a whole long section with red gears and put a crank on the end to make the fire breath. What a cool dragon.

Robot X Attacks!

Daddy and I continued with our Robot X adventures today. We rebuilt the antennae for the megawatt energy beam on our robot hats. Next, we created some paper "humanoids" to capture/destruction by the invading robots. Finally, we hid the humanoids around the yard and then took off on our rocket in search of them. This was a really fun version of hide and seek. First one of us would hide the humanoids and give the other "robot" clues as to where they are. Then the other "robot" hid the humanoids. In searching for the humanoids, you have to walk like a robot (the picture above is me in mid robot walk) as well as shout out our official robot saying,

DEE-STROY THE HUMANOIDS

The video below gives one of my most scary robot versions of this phrase. I've also posted a short photo album wth pictures from our adventures. You can find it here.

Aidan Morgan: Teaching Assistant

I helped with Daddy's class today. It seems that his class is playing the OPEC game and a coin flip determines whether the game continues. Check out how I determined the results for market A here and market B here in two short videos Daddy and I made.