Piano Recital

I graduated from Group Piano lessons at the Vancouver Academy of Music today. This morning was my end of the year concert and I wanted to play something that nobody else was playing.

I ended up choosing "Shining Star" because it reminds me of my little cousin, Olivia. I tried to make it something that she'd like to listen to when she's sleeping.


In the Fall, I start private lessons. Right now, I'm not sure who my teacher will be but I really like playing the piano and can't wait to learn some new songs.

Super Agent A

My birthday is coming soon and I'm having a Spy Party at Go Bananas. Mommy designed some invitations that are in mirror code (you need a mirror to read them) and we made up agent names for all my guests. My name is Super Agent A - I'm a super agent because I'm the birthday boy and because I watch Inspector Gadget and know more about spies than all my friends.

Today Mommy and I delivered all the invitations. I disguised myself so nobody would recognize me and I hand delivered each invitation because my party is a secret mission and I didn't want everyone at school to find out about it. Mommy drove the get-away car.


I think my disguise was pretty good because some of my friends didn't even know it was me. My best friend kept asking his dad, "who is that little man Daddy?"

I Love Lego!

Uncle Praveen joined us for Easter dinner last night and he brought gifts for Jacob and me. It was a Lego RV bus!


This morning Mommy helped me open the package but I put the RV bus together all by myself. I LOVE Lego!

The RV is pretty cool. It comes with two people who can sit up front and drive. It also opens up at the back and the people can have a picnic inside or outside. There are two sleeping compartments and even a BBQ. I'm not sure what's more fun, putting it together or playing with it after it's put together.

Easter Egg Hunt

The Easter bunny came this morning. Somehow he knew that I'd be home for breakfast this week and not at Grandpa's house.

Church

Mommy and I dressed up to go to church this morning. It's Easter today. I wore my best pants, my stripy button-down shirt, my blue vest and my red bow tie. I even styled my hair so I'd look very handsome.

Mommy wore a brown sweater and skirt with flowers. I like it when Mommy wears skirts so I told her, "Mommy, I've seen you look better, but you look pretty good today."

100 km Club Training

It's been raining outside for a long, long time so I decided I'd practice my running for 100 km club on the treadmill in our basement.

Using Chopsticks

I'm learning how to use chopsticks. It's not as easy as it looks...

Bunny Cookies

Mommy and I made bunny cookies to take to school for my class tomorrow. Aren't they cute!

100 km Club: Day 1

The 100 km club started at school today. Everyone Monday, Wednesday and Friday before school and at lunchtime, you can run around the park beside the school. It's 1 km to go all the way around the park. I'm trying to go around 100 times.

Mommy and I don't go running in the morning but we will do it together on sunny lunch hours. Here are my tickets for running 3 kms today.

Geocaching

Mommy and I have a new hobby called geocaching. We've already been on 8 adventures and Mommy has started her own blog about it. You can see what we've been up to at http://treasuretrackers.blogspot.com/

Disneyland: Jedi Training

Disneyland has a Jedi Training Academy and I GOT PICKED for training!

My Jedi master taught me some light saber moves and, just in time! During our training, Storm Troopers, a Sith and Darth Vader showed up.

Darth Vader tried to lure us to the dark side, but I wasn't tempted. I hate bad guys. Instead, I fought him with all my might and even used Force Power to fight off the Storm Troopers.

I graduated from Jedi Training School and got a certificate. I'm now officially called Padwan Maru and Daddy even bought me my own light saber.

Olympic Torch Relay

Aunty Jen is running in the torch relay today so Mommy and I went to cheer her on. I brought my red, Olympic mittens, my red, apple hat and my Canada flag. You gotta dress up for these things, you know.

We left school right away and had a yummy burrito lunch near where Aunty Jen was supposed to run. After lunch, we got a great spot on the sidewalk and waited...

...and waited. I was very excited!...

...and waited. It wasn't so exciting after waiting for 10 minutes.

Waiting isn't very much fun but soon other people in my family showed up which made it more fun to wait. Then stuff started to happen. A truck drove by playing fun music and people gave us free stuff. Some police men drove by and asked people to stay on the sidewalk. A bus drove by and dropped another torch bearer off. Lots of people wanted to get their photo taken with him.

Then we saw her! At first she was a tiny spec but she was running fast with the flame and she looked so happy. She's a really good runner!

It was really exciting so I cheered as loud as I could and waved my Canada flag.

I got to see Aunty Jen light the next guys torch. Someone told me they call it a kiss.

Now I can't wait for the Olympics to begin and I hope that I can run with the torch when the Olympics come back to Vancouver next year.

My Perfect Day

Mommy and I had the BEST day today! We started off by changing into my favourite lounging clothes - chunderwear and robes! Then I got to watch "Super Why!" on TV BEFORE breakfast!

After breakfast, Mommy and I played board games until the afternooon. Then, because it was such beautiful, sunny day, we went for a bike ride down at Jericho beach. Of course, we changed out of our robes first.

Isn't it pretty here? I rode my bike all the way from the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club over to the Jericho Sailing Centre. Unfortunately, the restaurant at the Sailing Centre was closed so I didn't get to have a treat there.

After the bike ride, I played in the park for a little while them Mommy said we could go for a treat. I asked for ice cream!

Here I am with my favourite flavour, mint chocolate chip. Mommy had a coffee.

After the ice cream I was still hungry so we went out for an early dinner. I love bean and cheese burritos but Burrito Brothers where I used to like to go keeps messing up my order so Mommy found a new place to try.

The guys at Budgies Burritos made my burrito perfectly - just bean and cheese with the rice outside on the side. It was YUMMMMMY! Mommy said her tacos were good too.

After dinner we had time to go home for a movie. This was one of the best days of my life.

Fun with Aunty T

Aunty T came over last night and we had lots of fun together. We played lots of board games then after dinner, we built towers out of Jenga blocks.

I think this was our best one! Thanks for the fun evening Aunty T!

Young Jedi

My Jedi training is really coming along. Check out my moves.

Apple-head

Like my apple-head? My old apple hat was my favourite but now I've grown and it doesn't fit any more.

This morning when I went to Grandpa's house for full-circle breakfast I found a great surprise - a new apple hat! Aunty Carolyn knit one for me, one for Daddy and a blue scarf for Mommy.

Too bad for Daddy but the small apple hat doesn't fit me so I got the big hat and Jacob gets the small one. Jacob loves his apple hat too.

Slip Sliding on Skates

Today I tried ice skating for the first time. Mommy took me onto the ice while Daddy watched us and took photos.

The ice is really slippery and it isn't as easy to skate as I thought it would be. To start, Mommy and I just walked around the edge of the rink until I felt more comfortable with skates on.

Skating is pretty hard and I fell a lot of times. With Mommy's help, I learned pretty quickly how to get up on my own.

Mommy thought it would be easier for me to learn if I pushed a cone around on the ice. It did help my skating and my getting up.

I think I had fun today. I'd like to try skating again (but not anytime soon).

Christmas Recital

In case you weren't able to attend in person, here's my Christmas Eve piano recital.

Only One More Sleep

I'm so excited. Only one more sleep until Christmas! Mommy and I made some peanut butter cookies for Santa (he said they are his favourite) and will leave him a cup of coffee to help him stay awake during his long night. The reindeer like carrots.

I hope the day goes quickly so the last sleep before Christmas day comes quickly. I hope I can sleep tonight.

Marriage Update

I had a play date with my friend Marissa this afternoon. She asked me to marry her! What's a guy to do? Now I have to choose between TWO girls.

Hmmmm. I don't know if Marissa likes spiders...

In Concert - December 24th

I want to do a concert at the party on Christmas Eve so I asked Mommy to make me a poster and some tickets. I hope a lot of people buy tickets!

Kinder Kangaroos

I graduated from Kinder Kangaroos gymnastics class today. Here I am with my purple graduation ribbon.

Mommy got to join me in the gym for the last part of my class. I showed her everything that I've learnt. She was pretty impressed. My favourites are the trampoline and swinging on the rings. Mommy thinks I'm crazy and is glad I'm in gymnastics to get all my sillies out.

This is probably the only non-blurry activity picture of me. I'm finally sitting still.

Gingerbread House

This is the house that Avi (and Mommy) built.

This is a tree that sits outside of the house that Avi built.

This is the candy that was used on tree

that sits outside the house that Avi built.

This is the icing that sticks on the candy

that was used on the tree

that sits outside the house that Avi built.

The Future Mrs. Maru?

This is Shyree. She asked me to marry her today. I told her I'd think about it. I really like her, she's fun, she's smart, she has a great imagination and she's pretty. We always have so much fun together. The only problem is she doesn't like spiders. Since I don't like spiders, if we get married, who will shoo the spiders away?

Letter to Santa

I felt like drawing a picture for Santa today. Mommy said we can mail it to his workshop in the North Pole. I hope he likes it.

I'm Growing

I think I've grown. This morning when my friend Thomas came over, we tried to fit ourselves into our school back packs. When we started preschool Thomas fit into his. Now we're too big.

5 More Weeks Until Christmas

Christmas is only five weeks away!!!!!!!!

Mommy has made me wait for two weeks to decorate my tiny Christmas tree. Today was the day!!!!!!

I'm sooooo excited! Tomorrow I'm going to hang up my stocking!

UBC Farm Field Trip

Today, my teacher, Ms. Skinner took our class on a field trip to the UBC Farm. Did you know that it is the only working farm left in Vancouver? And it's not even very far from my house.

It was a really fun and interesting trip. We started off talking about seeds and seedlings with our guide, Jacob. Luckily we got to do this part in the greenhouse because it was pouring rain outside.

Next we learned about soil. Jacob made us feel soil and compost at the dirt table outside. Eeew! I don't like getting my hands dirty and I really didn't want to do this part but I did it anyways. I learned that soil by itself, won't make a dirt ball, but when the soil is mixed with compost, everything sticks together better!

After playing with the dirt, we visited the compost bins to learn more about how compost is made. The morning class had an exciting show because lots of rats jumped out of the bins when the lids were lifted. Ms. Skinner isn't sure who was more scared, the rats or the mommies.

Jacob then lead us through the forest for a nature walk. We saw lots of tall trees that had name tags beside them. We came out at a meadow where the farm grows baby trees. They looked like my tiny Christmas tree.

Next we visited the vegetable garden. Jacob picked some fresh carrots, beets, kale and broccoli for Ms. Skinner to take back to the classroom. We have to try them on Monday - yuk!

Then came the most fun part of the trip, a visit with the chickens. It was really stinky but I liked petting them (if they came to me) and seeing their coop and where they lay eggs.