Explosion Day

We had Explosion Day last week when my friend Jesse came over. Earlier we made volcanoes out of paper mache and we painted them. Here we are with our volcanoes and my sister:



This is my volcano:



There is a Lego guy on top because he doesn't know it's a volcano because it never erupted before.

We made the eruption by putting baking soda in the volcano and then putting vinegar with red food coloring in it in the volcano:



And that made it erupt!



Poor Lego dude on the top! The Lego dudes on the bottom were floating in the lava.

Another part of Explosion Day was Mentos and Coke. Mine worked better than Jesse's because all of his Mentos didn't fall in. Here is his:




And since Jesse's was so small, he was drinking it as it came out!

My mom couldn't take a picture of mine because it happened so quickly.

And we also almost had digestive explosions because we had Hubba Bubba bubblegum ice cream and Mentos for a snack.

Ka-boom!

Pancake-A-Thon

This morning I cooked breakfast for everybody and I made pancakes.

This is me eating a pancake. I ate 8 pancakes (I would have eaten more if I didn't have to cook them - at least 14).

The book in front of me is Farmer Boy. It is a story about Almanzo Wilder and our mom is reading it out loud to us. Almanzo loves to eat! Just like me! His mom made pancakes and put butter and maple sugar on them in stacks. I did stacks today. I had a 6-stacker and a 2-stacker because there were only 4 left and I had to split them with my sister.

I wish I could have eaten at Almanzo's house!

Pie Eating Contest (with Puny Pies)

Where: St. Matthew's Church

Who: Me and my friends

What: A pie-eating contest (junior division). None of the adults would compete! There was also a chili cook-off going on.

When: Saturday, after mulching our whole yard

Why: I wanted to go because of the pie-eating contest, but the chili was good, too.

This is before we started and we are getting ready. Our hands are behind our backs because you couldn't use your hands.



This is us when the pie-eating contest started.



I had a technique of slamming my face into the pie to break it into smaller pieces to make it easier to eat. I chose cherry pie to eat. We had little pies because the contest was for kids and they didn't want anyone throwing up. I wasn't expecting a pie so small, but it was a good idea because it didn't take as long to eat. The pies that we could have had were pretty big, but we didn't get those and got the little pies.

This is me and I am smiling because I won First Place!!!



And here are all of us after we finished.



I won a prize. It was these things called Silly Shooters and they are rubber and you can stretch them a ton! You can also shoot them.

I had a really good time.