Robot X Returns

It was a rainy day yesterday afternoon in England. Along with the girl who was visiting next door and Daddy, I built a paper city for Robot X to destroy. In this version, Robot X is a Lego creation that I made while over in England. We then filmed it and added a soundtrack. Can you tell who the bird tweeting is?

Check it out here:

Road Runner

My latest obsession is with the cartoon show, Road Runner. I first learned about the show through my Hot Wheels Dodge Road Runner car. Whenever it would race in Gravity Cup, Daddy would sing the Road Runner theme song

Road Runner
That coyote's after you
Road Runner
If he catches you you're through

Well, last night, I asked Daddy about the song and he told me about the cartoon. He described a number of the plotlines from the show, and it sounded really interesting. Next, we found a bunch of episodes on the web. Check them out here.

I love this cartoon. It combines many of my favorite elements in shows. First, there is no danger the Road Runner will ever be caught, which is good. Second, the coyote invents lots of crazy machines. Also good. Third, the machines often involve a variety of explosive or other forms of destruction. Excellent. Finally, at about 45 seconds to 1 minute per plotline, the pace is outstanding.

Great show. I give it four stars.

Kindergarten Concert

 

Today I performed a bunch of songs at the Kindergarten concert. Many of these songs also had some cool dance moves. It was great. I had a lot of fun. The only bad part was when I was given a cow puppet for the alphabet song. That song lists many different animals including Queenie the Quail and Willie the Weasel. However, a COW is not one of the animals listed. I thought I was going to cry, but held back tears. Eventually, I was able to get a fish puppet for the "going to the zoo" song that followed. That made me much happier.

I liked that my whole family was in the audience. I waved to them.

Here is a slideshow.

Best Game Ever

Friday was easily the best baseball game I've ever been to. Daddy's colleague Maria offered us tickets to see the Sox battle the A's. we got there early to get autographs. Our seats were right near the path the Sox take from the dugout to the locker room. Pretty soon, one of the Sox showed up---Kevin Youkilis---I knew him from many games of balloon baseball with Daddy. He's quite big. He signed my ball (with a nice black Shrpie Daddy thought to bring along). I asked him plaintively,

Could I please get a ball? I really want one.

Youkilis searched his pockets, but no luck. "Maybe later kid." he said.

We got a bunch more autographs and then the game began. It was a great game. The A's pounded starter Tim Wakefield. When Frank Thomas hit a homer and jumped up and down quite happily. I then gave Daddy a big, long hug. The cameraman spotted it and put me on Diamondvision---soon the whole stadium got to see Daddy and me. Later, when the 7th inning came around, I sang "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" with my usual aplomb. The cameraman liked this too and I got on Diamondvision again. Hooray---two times!

Still, at the end of the game, I was a little sad.

I still haven't gotten a ball, Daddy.

I said. Daddy suggested I wait as the Sox filed into the clubhouse. Sometimes they give balls to fans. No luck. The Sox were pretty steamed about their loss an zoomed into the clubhouse. But one person was more leisurely. The home plate umpire, Tim Tscheda, strolled slowly toward the clubhouse. He came up to me and grabbed a ball from his little pouch of balls. He said,

Here you go kid. Nice game.

And it was. A nice game. The best game ever.

Hoedown

 

Last weekend was the hoedown at the Alamo School. My job was to be the ticket taker for the petting zoo. There are lots of fun games at the hoedown including the one pictured here. My job in this game was to throw wet sponges at people to win tickets. There was also a game where I won a cake as well as some other fun stuff. The hoedown is great and, best of all, I now have a new can of silly string. Yee haw!

The Best Week Ever

In addition to getting a Wii, another great thing happened to me last week--Frank Thomas returned to the A's. He's still my all-time favorite baseball player. What was even better is that he's wearing his old number, 35, and looks just like he did when he was last on the A's. He's awesome.

If you'll recall, I was planning to punish the A's by rooting against them when they got rid of Danny Haren. But now all is forgiven with the return of Frank!

Wii

Last week, Daddy got a Wii for the household. It may be the most fun thing ever. While most video and computer games have you sit and press some buttons, with the Wii you stand up and move around to make your character do the same thing. In Wii baseball, you make a pitching motion to throw a pitch and you swing the Wii controller to bat. In tennis, if you jump up to get the ball, the Wii player jumps too. Right now, we have Wii sports, which features baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, and boxing. I love it.

sleepy

 

After a hard morning of playing baseball, I decided that a nap was in order. Stuffies makwe great pillows as well as being wonderful friends.

Opening Day

Saturday was opening day for tee ball season. We got new uniforms (nice bright yellow shirts), came up with a new team name (Dragons), and had a new coach. Well, actually a sort of acting coach. Coaches are in short supply, so Daddy was the coach. It was very cool that Daddy is coaching the team. There are several kids from my Kindergarten class on the team as well, including Christopher and Steven.

Before we played, we did some exercises--jumping jacks, sprints, and so on. We also did a bunch of drills. Ground ball catching, fly ball catching, and throw and catch with partners. Catching the ball was really emphasized. We then played a team dressed in green uniforms called the "Green Slime". We caught lots of the balls they hit and played pretty well. I had fun.

Let's Go Oakland

 

This Saturday, I saw my first major league game of the year---the A's versus the Royals. It was a beautiful (but cold) day. The whole 3 family went along with our #1 A's fan, Maria. She has diamond level tickets with the A's and a bunch of connections. In fact, she was able to get us some excellent seats coutesy of her friend Aaron, who works for the A's. It was an outstanding game. The A's feel behind 4-0 and then rallied in the late innings to take a 6-4 lead. One of my favorite players, Huston Street, came in in the 8th for the save. He gave up a run in the 9th, but the A's won 6-5. I was jumping up and down and cheering. I also mamaged to start a couple of "Let's Go Oakland" cheers in the stands all by myself.

I love the A's.

Talent

 

This Fraiday was the talent show. I got to go third on the program. I was a little nervous while waiting my turn in the library, but was relaxed and happy on the stage. I couldn't believe the lights---it was hard to see who was in the audience. A bunch of people called "Aidan", so I waved to the audience. I did my song---Take Me Out to the Ballgame---and everyone seemed to enjoy it. In fact, the applause and screaming was so loud at the end that I had to cover my ears. It was great!

Check out the photo album here. Warning: Owing to lighting conditions, these are not supercrisp Aidan photos---don't order prints about 5x7.

Arizona

I had a blast in Arizona last week. The hotel we stayed at had a huge water park on the grounds. It also had lots of pretty fountains and passageways to explore. Daddy and I went on a photo safari on the first day we arrived, and I got to discover all sorts of neat parts of the resort. The picture above is one Daddy took during a break on the safari. Since we've been back, I've asked a couple of times when we can go again. Of course, I also love the saguaro cacti too. The desert is great.

Easter Eggs

 

We decorated Easter eggs just before we went to Arizona. Here are some of the highlights.

 

Easter Portrait

 

This is a simple portrait of me in my Easter outfit. As usual, it was a warm, sunny day in Walnut Creek on Easter. I ran around yelling "charge" after church much to the delight (and consternation) of the other children.

Happy Easter

 

Well, it's about a week late, but I thought I'd wish everyone a Happy Easter anyway. It was a craxy Easter for us. I got up at dawn to go Easter egg hunting, then we went off to church. Afterwards, there was the obligatory photo shoot. The picture with Mommy is one of the highlights. You can see all the pictures here.

Then we had to pack to fly to Arizona in the afternoon. It was such a rushed day that Easter dinner was...pizza!

Golden ticket

Last weekend I went on an Easter Egg hunt in Pleasant Hill. While these are always fun, it was really my lucky day. Instead of getting candy or a toy in one of the Easter eggs I found, I got a golden ticket. The ticket gave me the big prize of an Easter basket filled with candies, games, and two stuffies. My new friends are pictured in their basket above.

Happy Easter.

School

I've been busy with lots of activities in school. I'm in the talent show, I've been getting better at reading and writing, and so on. Here are some highlights.

1. Counting

For some reason, I decided to see how high I could write numbers. I made it all the way up to 121. Here's sheet 1 of the counting list.



2. Letter of the week. A couple of weeks ago the letter of the week was "k". Now, this is a tough letter in that you have to come up with "k" words that you can draw pictures of. I disconvered an important research tool--the dictionary. It turns out that dictiionaries have pictures of some of the things the words describe as well as spelling. For "k", here's what I came up with:

Friends

Yesterday I went to Target with Mommy. Nothing unusual about that. What is unusual is that I actually bought stuff there with my own money. I bought a couple of Hot Wheels cars as well as a small stuffed bear. You can see him above. He's a really good friend.

Later that afternoon, we went out and played together. We went on the swing.



We climbed up the ladder to the sliding board and then slid down landing in the wod chips.





We went on the trapeze.


We even rode scooters together



He's a great friend.

Hit Down to Go Up

When my friend Chase was visiting this Sunday, we played golf out in the yard together. I found a finish line flag on a stick and poked that into the ground in various spots in the yard to be the "hole". I then picked out a spot for the tee box and off we went. There were some very creative holes including a dogleg left where you could either go the safe route and stay on the grass or take the risky route of a forced carry over the rose bush. (I elected the risky route and made the carry.)

Chase really hadn't played much golf before, so he was having trouble getting the ball to go very far. The secret, as I learned, is to hit down on the ball to make it go up in the air. I demonstrated my classic hitting down technique. It's sort of like the movie Cars where Doc tells Lightning that on dirt tracks he should turn right to go left.

It was a great golf tournament.

Off the DL

Well, I'm off the DL. After suffering through last week with coughs and fever, I'm finally starting to feel more like myself again. While I still have a cough, and I still have red marks under my nose from having rubbed and blown it so many times, I'm on the road to recovery. That road, apparently. leads to play dates. I had my friends Chase and Katie over during the weekend. It was lots of fun. Chase is especially fun to wrestle with.