January 2009 – Page 2 – Breighton's Journey

Do A Mitzvah!

Do a Mitzvah!

Do a Mitzvah when you can!

I got a mitzvah today at school for bringing in some trains to share with the class. Me and two other boys are always fighting over the trains and I had a few doubles in my bucket at home.

So proud of me! 🙂

Two Great Disney Trips In One Week

We headed over to Disney because the weather has been so nice out. Mommy, Daddy, Emmerson and I went to Animal Kingdom on Sunday to celebrate Emmerson’s first birthday.

I played a few games of Whac A Packy! ((Unlce Matt here is the REAL NAME of the game Mom and Dad were mistaken!)

Hiding out and getting ready to sneak up on Emmerson.

Gotcha Baby Brother. I certainly do love this little annoying thing even if he takes my toys and screams and cries a lot!

Digging for bones!

Roar!!!

Taking Emmerson for a walk. I am really enjoying the Big Brother gig!

On Thursday we packed up the car and this time brought Grandma and Grandpa with us to Magic Kingdom. I took Emmerson on his first tea-cup ride. He had fun. I was really nice and didn’t s[in fast at all!

There was almost NO line for the stinky race cars so Mommy took me on. I got to drive. Mommy was terrified!

Maybe it was because I didn’t have my hands on the wheel!

Finally I got the hang of it! Poor Mommy may never recover from my crazy driving. She said thank goodness she was in charge of the gas and break! (Whatever that means!)

I got to play “recycled ring toss”. Fun!

We had a few ice creams and then I got to bang on the drum for a while. BIG drums!

Heritage Village With Pal Jacob

We went to an open house at Heritage Village in Largo today. My friend Jacob and his family met us there. It was so much fun!

We (Mommy) made fans by weaving palmetto branches together.

I see something I need to go do.

It was this stick. The sticks always talk to me!

Apparently they talk to Jacob too! That or three year old boys like sticks!

Looking for treasure.

We learned all about the citrus industry and how people had different jobs. I was the picker. Jacob was the tree (obviously not a real job!!).

We picked the oranges and then took them to the sorting table. It was need to see the different sizes fall into different buckets.

We watched a man make popcorn over an open fire. We weren’t allowed to eat it but it was fun to watch and hear.

We got to make biscuits! I liked sifting the flour the best.

There was an outdoor kitchen. Boy was it messy. I had to clean that right up!

Then I made STEW! I like to make pretend food.

I learned how to build a fence around crops so small animals don’t eat them.

I thought the hand pump for water was interesting. I pumped really hard but got nothing.

Then Mommy showed me how to prime the pump by going super fast.

It was cotton picking time today too. They had about 30 cotton trees that needed pulled up so they could rotate to the next crop (black eyes peas!).

I greatly enjoyed pulling up the trees.

Then we would haul them to a man who had people picking out the cotton seeds and saving the cotton.

This tree was pretty big but I eventually got it up as well.

Something caught my eye. A push plow! Good thing I am pretty tall for my age. Mommy showed me how to do it.

Then off I went!

Jacob came to help me but I did it all by myself.

YEAH ME! Then Jacob had a turn!

Time to clan the rugs in the house. There was a rug swatter but I preferred the palm branch! 🙂

What a very fun and educational day. I thought that life before electricity was pretty interesting. Not something I would like to do all the time but it was fun to learn about history. See all the great opportunities that are available to me to learn from. I am looking forward to other homeschool education! 🙂

Noah’s Ark Day at TAS

Today was Noah’s Ark Day at school. I got to bring in my hermit crabs to show them off. A lot of kids brought dogs and cats or a stuffed animal from home. We had a parade around the car circle. It was a LOT of fun!