Some of you already know that my older son is nuts about collecitng Pez. As of right now, he collects 79 pezs two years ago. Dylan hopes to get more than 100 pezs by this Christmas.

While he has a dream collecting more pez, he even explored more on the Internet. He found it out that there is actually a Pez Museum up in North California. I was surprised yet happy for Dylan. Knowing that he really wants to go there on our way home from Oregon. Knowing it is not going to give David a permit time to get it back to work. Maybe soon, we will go there.

Like I said he loves pezs, he wrote a letter for a person who is in charge of the Pez Museum. Please read what he actually wrote:

Dear Pez Museum,

Can you make pezs for the new movie, "The Princess and the Frog?" I would buy it the hour, it comes out. (the pez, not the movie.) I want to have 6 pezs. The princess, the frog, Ray, the 197 year old blind lady, the crocodile, and the dark magican. Put it at the price of 9.95.

From,
Dylan McClellan

P.S. I have a lot of pez. I have 79 pezs.

Thought it was too cute to share. See the web link: http://www.burlingamepezmuseum.com/

Jacob's Shell Museum

When I entered Ryan's room, I found he put the tape on the containers and the second place ribbon on the side of his dresser. I asked him what made him putting the tape on the top of the dresser. His reply was, "Jacob, his stuffed horse, is having a museum. It is called, "Jacob's Shell Museum." I thought it was so cute not to take any picture.


What do you think of his imagination???

Habitat Final Report

After two long weeks, Dylan and I worked together on his sardine research. We found some of the information and discussed about sardines before he wrote three paragraphs. Writing three paragraphs are not easy for him because he wrote mixed English and American Sign Language. It was due to that he comes from a deaf parents. Thus, he had a communication from his great aunt who majored in English. She gave him several advices. Thanks goodness for her to help him with the essay.

As for my part, I was able to promote him to create his own diorama. Actually, we talked about this before he started making his own diorama. He was so proud of his work !

The top grade would be four. So, he probably won't know until this Friday, or after the Winter Break. Actually, he had hoped to get a box of "Wizard of Oz" pezs if he gets four.

Sardines

This month, Dylan has been working on his Habitat report on sardines. He had to write three paragraph and created an ocean diorama. His dad has encouraged him to try sardine because there are many positive effects for eating sardines. I admit he was much braver than me!

Posting for the picture before eating sardine for the first time with olive oil.

This was Dylan's first bite of sardine with Ritz cracker.

At the end, he realized he didn't like sardine at all.
He drank a cup of milk to cover the "yucky" stuff.

Glasses

While I was buying few items at Staples, I found Ryan trying something new from the shelves. It was a pair of glasses. In a small way, he looked somewhat look good in a pair of glasses. Wonder if he could see where he was going while he was wearing a pair of reading glasses?

Fake or Real?

I was fooling it around with my cat, Star. I loved the way Star gave us his suspecting looks. He was not sure if Santa Claus was real or fake. Or it may have something to do with my smelly foot.

Colorful Trees

For months, we have had warm weather in Southern California. The last few days ago, the weather starts to cool it down. It is really amazing the colorful trees finally arrived in Southern California. This certainly felt wonderful when I saw these colorful trees on my way to work.