My Elf

I named my elf James, after me! That's my middle name. He is so fun to have around the house. Sometimes he does silly things, like turn the milk green. Other times, he helps out like when he cleaned my room and hellped Mom sew my costume for the musical at church.

Last night, he made Christmas mice for my whole class!

Hoedown Day

Here is my Hoedown Day! It was really fun to have Mom and Dad there to watch me dance!

Trick-or-Treat

Trick-or-Treating with friends. Had a lot of fun this year!

Batman, Princess, Ninja, Prom date.

Halloween 2011

For this year, I will be a Red Ninja! I am so excited. This is the outfit that Mom put together for me this year:

Ready for action:

Silly Face

Doing silly faces with my mom!!

4th Yosemite Post

This is our new tent that Grammie helped us out with. She would rather buy a tent then rent one for three days. This way, we can go again and again!

Here's a pic of me climbing the rocks.

And one of most of us as we climbed and watched the river flow. It was a perfect day!!

We also had a lot of fun playing in the mud, chasing bugs, and jumping in the water!

3rd Yosemite Post

Uncle Tony and Jacob make a splash! Remember that the water is ICE COLD!! It's snow melt from the mountains.

2nd Yosemite Post

A picture with me and my cousin, Ethan.

Mirror Lake in Yosemite was ICE COLD! But it was fun to be there.

I can't wait to go back to Yosemite and explore more places!

First Yosemite Post

This is my Aunt Becky braving the cold at Mirror Lake in Yosemite. Man, it was CccoooOOOoooold

First Video

Mom let me do my first video! Here we go:

Crafting with Mommy

Crafting with Mommy this week because there is no school.

We made these colorful designs and put them on coffee cans. Mom uses one to hold snacks for Daddy and one has scraps for making paper chains, like the one I did to keep track of how close my birthday is!

I also helped Mom color these fish for a virtual aquarium. The design is based on Joel's from his blog. The crab is trying to eat the yellow fish who is going to marry the pink fish. That's the story for today, anyway!ADDED LATER:
We also did some Marble Art. Mom didn't think I would do it for very long, like 5 minutes maybe. But I really enjoyed watching the marble move around and leave paint everywhere!! We ended up doing two paintings and it took a good 45 minutes at least.
Found this fun blog, Fun on a Dime, and decided to link up here!

Clouds

Mom and I saw an /X/ in the sky as we were driving over to Stockton. It was pretty cool to see. Look towards the bottom of the pic.

The sky was just gorgeous as we were driving home. Notice how clear it was in the first picture, that was around 2 and the next pictures are around 5.

On the way home from Stockton, we could see Mt. Diablo, too, and it was beautiful with the sun peeking through the clouds.

Bowling

Last month, my parents took me bowling for the first time. I have played bowling on the Wii with my Granpa and Grandma, so I thought this would be easy. Turns out, it's a bit harder than it looks, but I had a ton of fun!

Shoes

Waiting to start.

Daddy helping.

Slipped on the floor.

Rockets

I made rockets out of lids from plastic bottles. It was fun to create something while recycling as well. Mom's is the blue one and Dad's is the white one.

Legos

My mom found this site that another five year old posts on. (Well, his mom helps him out, just like mine!)

He makes Lego creations and so do I. I never thought to put them on the internet before. I love watching Lego tutorials, too, from Lego.com. There are some cool creations out there.

Thanks, Leo from Leoslegolab, for your inspiration!

Dell'Osso Family Farm Fun

Snowball fights and petting zoo with the cousins. Gotta love that we live so close!
Ethan, checking out this HUGE pig and throwing snowballs.
Lindsay, feeding a donkey and gathering snow.
Nick, petting a sheep, feeding the little goats, and getting ready to pelt Mommy with a snowball!
We had a lot of fun with the animals! They are a bit unpredictable, but that was the joy of it! The snow was cold and wet, but it was hard to get everyone to leave.