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Karaoke Kids!

We went to my dad's company Christmas party on Saturday and Helen and I did a karaoke song. We sang Jingle Bells. Enjoy!

ROCK ON!

I Like to Move It Move It (with Santa)

The other night we watched Merry Madagascar and I really liked the new version of "Move It, Move It!" Check out Santa! The song starts at about 58 seconds in to the video!

Fun 4 Weeks!

Hey everybody! Sorry that I haven't posted in a while. Here are some pictures from the last four weeks. I went ice skating with my enrichment class. Here is a picture of Helen and me. I have my ice skates on in this picture. I had just gotten off the ice. It was very fun. I learned how to ice skate.

A few hours later, we got our costumes on and went to the Fall Frenzy II at our church. I was Captain Rex from Star Wars; The Clone Wars. Will was a pumpkin. Helen was Tinkerbell. This is a picture of Will.
This is Helen and me with our friends the Baileys. Wheat is Waluigi with the purple hat, Lake is Mario with the red hat on and River is Luigi with the green hat. Cool costumes, huh?

Captain Rex and Mario!

This past weekend, my cousin Connor spent the night with us on Friday night. He brought all of his Wii games and we played a lot of Wii!
This is us playing MX vs. ATV. It is very fun!

Lillie also spent the night with us. This is Will in the shopping cart with Helen and Lillie in their pajamas!

Rock on!

Three Wild Things at the Zoo!

On Monday we went to the zoo. Will had never been to our zoo and I think he liked it. Here are some pictures of our day.

Helen and I got to brush the goats. They let some sheep come in to the pen while we were in there and it scared Helen. She screamed and one of the rules was not to scream. We left the area after that. Wonder who that other kid is on the left? I've got no clue!

BIG FAT BEAR! We got to see almost all of the animals up close because it was such a nice day. This bear was huge! This is a black bear and these are the kind of bears that live in the Smoky Mountains near us!
This year in Science we are studying Zoology and the "Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day". We saw this sandhill crane at the zoo. It lives in Canada and migrates through Tennessee to the south sometime in the next month or so. You can see a bunch of them at the Hiwassee Wildlife Refuge during that time. We might go see them when they migrate soon. It eats insects, worms, fruit, plants and amphibians. I am learning all about them in my Birds of Tennessee field guide. We got so close to the gorilla that we could scratch his back!
Just kidding! There was some glass between us. The gorilla got mad and smacked the glass at me. It scared me to death. We also got to see baby George. He is the newest addition to the chimpanzee family but we didn't get a picture of him. He was very cute!
We saw an elephant up close. We watched him eat some hay out of a little net bag.

This is me driving the jeep on a safari.

This is Helen driving Will and me up to the giraffes!

We went into a section about barn animals and saw some owls.They eat mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians. Here are three barred owls!

ROCK ON WILD THINGS!

My Brother Will

Hello Everybody! I'm back again. I know it's been a long time since I have posted. Last Wednesday I did a presentation about Will for my Enrichment Class. I wanted to take Will in my backpack, but that wouldn't work. Then I thought I could take him in a box and clap my hands and he would appear, but that wouldn't work. So, I just did a poster with a few pictures and talked about Will. Here is the video of me doing the presentation at home last Wednesday afternoon! You will have to pause the music on my play list so you can hear what I said! The playlist is all the way at the bottom of my page.

ROCK ON!

Second grade is really fun. It is also really long. Longer than I have ever done school. I like it because we keep it level. We have Math and then we equal it out with some free time; like we do math and then we do some other fun activities.

This year I am going to an enrichment class on Wednesdays. Today was my first day. We were a little late because I went with my family to Will's court date. We re-adopted him so we could change his name. In class we did a science experiment. First we put on purple gloves. Then we went outside and the teacher handed out eggs. We were squeezing them with our palms to see if they would break. We soon figured out that they wouldn't break because they are strong. Did you know that if two average sized adults stand on an ostrich egg, it won't break? It is really cool how the process goes. Ostrich babies peck out a little bit of a hole and then the ostrich parent helps them get out of the rest of the way.

I am getting ready to go on a trip to St. Louis with Granbob and Grankaki and Aunt Meg. We are going to a Cardinals vs. Astros baseball game. I asked mom if I could wear my old uniform to the game. She said it would be a little snug. I'll report back about my trip to St. Louis in two weeks!

ROCK ON!

I'm Back!

It has been a while since I posted on my blog, so I will catch you up on my summer. I finished first grade! Yay! Then I went to baseball camp at Farragut High School. It was a lot of fun. I went for four days and I improved in catching and fielding. The next week I went to VBS. It was fun also. This is a picture of Family Night when I got to jump on a Euro-Bungy! That was SO cool!

On Friday before my mom and dad left for Ethiopia, I accepted Christ as my Savior! It feels really good! Susi came to stay with us while mom and dad went to Ethiopia to pick up Will. This is a picture of me with Will right when mom and dad got off the plane. He is really cute and I like him because he is funny. He can be serious but he laughs a lot too.

We went to eat dinner with our friends, the Davis family. We went out on their boat and played in the lake. I ended up spending the night with Brady in their camper. We had a great time.

We went to Mooresville, North Carolina for our Beckett Family Reunion. My mom's last name used to be Beckett and that is where I got my name. Everyone at the reunion is from my mom's side of the family and they are all Becketts! This is a picture of me with Aunt Nell. She is my Granbob's oldest sister and the oldest Beckett family member. She was teaching me how to play bridge.
We went for a ride on the Catawba Queen and I got to actually steer the boat. It had a big paddle on the back of it. You can see Helen's hat in the bottom corner.

Me, Helen and Will on the boat.
On our way home from the family reunion, we stopped to visit Auntie Mame and Uncle Ron in Waynesville, NC. We always have fun with Auntie Mame.

Last week we went to a surprise party for my friend Emma's mom. Here we are with Emma.

And here is a picture of Emma holding Will.

The next day we had a party for Will at my friend's pool. Here I am with some of my friends when we were playing with Will before we went swimming!

I'll be starting 2nd grade in a few weeks. That is the latest from me!

ROCK ON!

Game Ball!

On Saturday we played a baseball game and we finally didn't lose! We tied! Yay! It was a fun game. I hit a double and a triple. The triple was almost over the fence! At the end of the game I was playing in center field and the ball was hit to me. I fielded the ball and threw it to first to get the runner out. It was close, but he was out. That was the last out of the game. We kept them from scoring, so we tied the game! Everybody started jumping and running to the dugout and dad picked me up and hugged me! Then the coach (dad) gave me the game ball! Very cool.
Here is a picture of me in the concession stand with the game ball. We had to work in the concession stand after my game. It was cool.

ROCK ON!

Bald River Falls/North River

Here are some pictures of our family trip the other day. We went to Bald River Falls and hiked to the top. This is a picture of me on some rocks beside the trail.

This is a picture of me, dad and Helen looking at the Falls from the road. Pretty cool!

We also went fly fishing. Dad taught me how to fly fish. It was fun.
Here is what Helen does while I fish. EAT! Mom said that in the first picture she is eating chex mix and in the second picture she is eating a banana!

The picture on top is when I hooked my fish! Mom ran down the bank really fast to get a picture of my fish and here it is! I caught a rainbow trout!

Here is a picture of it up close! Awesome!

ROCK ON!

Finally!

My front two teeth have been loose for a long time. Today one of them finally came out. I twisted it for about seven minutes and then mom came in and twisted it for about five minutes. Then it came out. It feels really weird to eat and I keep on trying to wiggle it, but it isn't there so I stick my tongue in the hole. I can already feel the big tooth coming in!
Of course while we were pulling it out, Helen was right there beside me. She kept saying, "I want the tooth fairy to come!" She would also sing songs about me getting my tooth out. I think she was more excited than I was!

I added a new song to my blog for Wheat, Lake and River! I want to see you dancing to this one!

Rock On!

Walnut Mania!

I went to Nana and Papa's house on Wednesday and Papa asked me if I wanted to help him crack walnuts. I had never done it before, so I thought I'd try. And before you knew it, Papa and I had about 10 walnuts all cleaned out. He would hammer them and open them. My job was to get the stuff out. (the meat of the walnut) Look at the picture on the right and you will see that I used a little tool to pick out the walnut. I am really good at it! The treat was......brownies! Nana took the walnuts we got and she made walnut brownies!

This is a picture of me working hard.

Here I am with two walnuts that I picked out.

Do you like my new music on my playlist?

ROCK ON!

I Met a Famous Children's Author!

We were getting ready to eat dinner tonight when our friend Marilyn called and said that Mary Pope Osborne was going to be at Border's book store in one hour! She saw it on the news. MPO is the author of the Magic Tree House books. Mom and I finished our dinner very fast and we got there as quick as we could. I really like reading the Magic Tree House books and right now I am on #6 which is "Afternoon on the Amazon." We got there and bought her newest book, "Moonlight on the Magic Flute" and got a wristband. We listened to her talk for about 15 minutes and then we got in line to have my picture made with her. She broke her knuckle on one hand and her wrist on the other hand, so she didn't sign my book, just stamped it. Then we got good hot chocolate with a stick of chocolate, white chocolate and whipped cream from the cafe in Borders. We are going to see Magic Tree House~The Musical next week at The Tennessee Theater. Here is a You Tube video so you can see what it is going to be like. I can't wait. ROCK ON.

This is me with Mary Pope Osborne and her husband, Will Osborne.

Winter Jam 2009

Happy Birthday to me! I'm 7 years old today! My next door neighbor thought that I was turning 6. Ha! Ha! This is my big present from mom and dad that is not wrapped........Winter Jaaaaaaaaammmmmm!!! My favorite will be the one in the middle. TOBY MAC! We are going to the concert tomorrow night. I'll tell you about my fun night when it is all over!

ROCK ON!

Home Depot and Birthday Party

On Saturday morning, we went to Home Depot for the Kid's Workshop. My grandparents were in town to watch me play basketball, so we decided to go make something at HD before my game! It was fun, but the craft was kind of girly. I can't wait until next month when we get to make a race track!

This is Grankaki helping me with my trinket box.
Helen and me with Grankaki and Granbob

After Home Depot, I played my basketball game and had fun. I got the best effort star! On Saturday night, I went to Calyn's birthday party and hung out with her brother and my good friend, Tristan! The party was at Events at Sherlake where you jump and slide on all of the inflatible things! We had a blast! Can you tell that I was HOT?

Rock On!