Fire Trucks and Cubelets

Dear Emily,
My new friends are Violet and Leah and Paige and Mia and Finely and Sammy. And I think that's it. And I went on a field trip to the fire station. At the fire station there were cool things. And we saw a giant ladder on top of the fire truck. And we watched a movie about fires and smoke. And we saw some cool fire things that they use. We saw a giant hose and people got to try one of those things that they use to see your heart.

We also went to a park. At the park we played games and there was a cool spinning thing. It was crowded.
On Daddy's birthday we got some cool blocks that were magnetic and they each could do different things. Like, dark dark blue is a battery.
I hope you are having a fun time.
Love,
Rebecca

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Dear Emily,
How are you doing? I'm doing good. I been painting, playing Starfall. I've been doing preschool. Starfall. Starfall. Painting. My cousins came over. I played Harry Potter. I been painting. I've been watching Trollhunter. It's scary. I like it. We watched it over and over and over again.

Starfall. Starfall. I got my daddy an Incredibles shirt and me an Incredibles shirt and Becca an Incredibles shirt. My shirt is red and black and red and black and yellow. Grandma and Grandpa were here. My daddy is incredible. Me and Becca and Daddy were wearing Incredibles shirts.

I played Koala's with Becca. And we saw axolotls. They were at the pet store. They were cute and funny.

Pink is all over the house. Purple is all over the house too. Black's all over the house too and red's all over too and yellow's all over the house. I love you so much! You're Selfie and I'm Selfie. Emily's not a princess, I'm not a princess. I'm a pirate! Arrrgh! I'm a girl. A girl pirate!
And Idaho (Uncle Joe) came. This week we watched Trollhunters.
Love,
Marie

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Daniel's section.
On my dad's birthday my dad got an Incredibles shirt, candy, a controller, and some Cubelets. So yes, you can buy them. Here is a video of a Cubelets creation I made:

For scouts we played kickball and they even let Rebecca play! On Tuesday we had parent teacher conference, and they said I was doing well.
Love,
Daniel

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(Eric wrote this section for Daniel, but Daniel rejected it and decided to write his own. But I liked it so we decided to keep it in.)
When I grow up I want to be a Gopher. This is what I want to look like:

I want to dig in the ground and eat worms and berries and clowns.
Then I want to meet a nice platypus and we can get married:

Our kids would look like this:

I think my favorite thing to do with my Gopher/Platypus family will be going on rides on our pet Narwhal

September 2018

Hi Emily,

How are things? We've had fun reading your blog and Daniel suggested we make a blog for you! 

Dear Emily,

I love kindergarten. My teacher's name is Ms. Boyd. She's so nice. I like school and it is fun.

Rebecca loves school 

I ate a chocolate covered cricket! I didn't like it that much. 

Rebecca eating a chocolate cricket

And I also held two tarantulas! I wish I could hold more tarantulas. It felt kind of ticklish but I still liked it. I also lost my left top middle tooth.

Rebecca holds a tarantula

I love you. I wish I could wish I could see you soon. I hope you're having a fun time.

Love,

Rebecca

Dear Emily,

I'm in preschool. Mommy's my teacher and Julie. We mixed paint.  I like preschool. 

Marie and Carter painting

We're writing letters to you. I went to the spider festival. I maked a web. I painted with markers. I held a spider. It was Jumpy. It was cute. I want to hold another spider. I DID hold another one. 

Marie holding a jumping spider

I didn't want to hold a tarantula. It was too big. Daddy's here. I like yellow capes. Daniel broke his arm. I want to tell you "I love you." I played hide-and-go-seek and I was sad Daniel hided in the same place. I want a 'Punzel dress.

Love,

Marie

What Daniel has been up to:

About two weeks ago we went to Lagoon. It was fun, but on one of the rides I would have thrown up if I had food inside me.

Daniel, Rebecca and Marie riding Bluey the Whale ride at lagoon

In school I got this cool Indian vase and we played this game where you're trying to say a pinyin sound faster than the other person. I defeated 8 people on the other team, until the teacher told me to sit down so someone else could have a turn.

The Indian vase

On sept 13, 2018 I had a boat race. My boat looked the coolest, but it kept turning.

Daniel holds his boat up

On sept 17, 2018 we went to Park City to see an arachnid show. Where there were these cool robot blocks called Cubelets. Later we went to a cool street that looked like an old European street.

Daniel made a cool creation with Cubelets.

The kids by a bookstore at the entrance to the cool street

We had a fun time.

Love,

Daniel