Flat Stanley

I had an assignment for school where I made Flat Stanley.  We had to have Stanley go somewhere around the world and take pictures.  Then we had to share with the class.  Mommy's Uncle Jim took my Flat Stanley to China!  Half way around the world!  Stanley got to ride on airplanes to California and then to China.

It looks like he had fun.  He saw all kinds of things in China.  Like buildings and a factory where they make clothes.  He even met a Chinese police man.  My Flat Stanley went further than anyone else in 2nd grade.  Thanks Uncle Jim!

First Reconciliation

 

 

I made my first reconciliation today.  I was a little nervous so Mommy waited with me in line. But it went fine when I got up to the priest.  It wasn't Father Eric though. It was another priest from another church who came to help.  Daddy joked that I didn't take long enough to tell my sins.  That wasn't nice! But I didn't have to tell every little thing.  Just the main things.  You do it so God will give you a second chance because he knows that we are not perfect. 

 

Now that is over.  I make my first communion in April.

Queen of the Hay Mountain

We went to the farm to get pumpkins today.  And in the back of the barn they had a huge mountain of hay.  It was so big.  We climbed up and Mommy took our picture.  I will admit it was kinda scary up there.  And the funnest part was that we jumped off the hay mountain and Daddy caught us.

Waaaay Up High

When we were in Chicago we went to a building where you go way up on the 100 something floor.  I think it was 103 floors or something like that.  But anyways, they have glass all around and you can look down on the other buildings.  It is way high and it is a long way down.  It was cool.  I just got Samantha so I took her with us.

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We were trying to take pictures in the glass floor box but Julian was throwing a fit.  He kept screaming and crying.  So they weren't good pictures.  He wasn't scared but he was made because Daddy wouldn't let him take a baseball from the store.  But it was really cool to look all the way down.  Cars looked really small.  Like ants.  And you could see soooo far...

My American Girl

I finally got to go to the American Girl store.  It is an awesome place.  It is so big and they have so many dolls and so much stuff.  I kinda wanted to get the Samantha doll just like Mommy had when she was a girl.  I looked around at the other dolls and I decided to get Samantha.

I picked a couple of outfits for her.  And we picked hairstyles.  They fix their hair right there is a little like hair salon place. It was so cool.  

Samantha is from a long time ago.  Her time period is like 19 hundred something.  I'm so excited to have her!  Thank you Mommy and Daddy!

2nd Grade School Picture

Riley the big 2nd grader

Wedding In A Barn

 

 

 Mommy's cousin got married and the wedding was in a barn.  It was pretty but it was really hot that day so we stayed in the shade.

I liked it because we got to see some cousins like Madeline and Carly.  They are not close cousins like Landon but kinda far away cousins.  We had fun.

 

 

Then after the wedding we went back to the hotel and swam in the pool and karaoke with the whole family.  Poppy was singing songs and Mommy sang some songs.  Daddy didn't sing because he is not silly fun like that.  It was fun and we stayed up late.  Then we saw everybody for breakfast in the morning before we drove home. Family weddings are fun.