Five years two months

Hello world!

When I see someone I haven't met for a long time, I remind my mummy that she should tell them I'm five now.  But I told the library lady myself.  At the library I choose my books, then I give my card to the lady, and then she lets me stamp the date on the books.  I even stamp my mummy's books.  I'm very careful.  At one library there's a machine for books, but no stamp.  I like using the machine too;  I can push the buttons.

I told my mummy I want to learn to knit a jumper.  She showed me how to knit, and I knit a little bit of a flannel, for washing my face in the bath.  I did six stitches all by myself, and my mummy finished it so I could use it right away.  I like it a lot;  it's green like Green Lantern.

When I choose which fruit to eat, I count out like this:

"Eeny miny mo;
Put the baby mo.
Saxophone and me;
Put the baby mo."

Then I pick the one I want.

I helped my dad mix up clay and perlite for our rocket.  Rockets make fire and go into space, but my dad said ours doesn't go into space.  We bought the perlite from a special shop, and when we mixed it up it was sticky wicky icky.  I helped my mummy squash it down and got it all over my hands.  

Love,

Franklin

Five years one month

Hello world!

I had a birthday and I'm five.  I told my mummy when all the children in my class are five, we go to a new class with a new teacher.  Right now I'm in Upper Foundation and my teacher is Miss Fletcher, and my best friend is Alfie, but he's kind of naughty.

We had Easter holiday with no school for two weeks.  I went to London and saw my cousins Matthew, Grace (who are both a little bigger than me but not much), and Poppy and John Paul (who are babies).  I coloured and drew pictures and played lego with Matthew and Grace.  And I ate lots of crisps and chocolate.

Also during Easter holiday I went to the beach.  I walked very far on the sand, skipped stones and shells on the water, and collected some in a bag to take home for an art project.  After we had a picnic on the beach, I had ice cream, and we walked some more and wrote our names in the sand.  On the walk back, my mummy and daddy showed me how the bricks on the path made mazes for kids to walk on.  I really liked those mazes, and some of them were hard to get to the end;  some were easy, though.  After all that walking we had fish and chips from a shop.  I love fish and chips.  Before we got in our car to drive home I rode on a Viking ship ride that went up and down like a huge swing.  I rode it by myself without help. 

I took all the money out of my money box and made a beautiful design with it.

I also love to build my lego models.  I can follow the instruction books myself, and I also come up with new designs.  I like to make cars the best.  I also make buildings like train stations, and castles (like Howl's Moving Castle, with legs).

I still like Batman and Superman, but my new best superhero is Green Lantern.  My bedroom is painted green like him and I have lots of toys of him, and a Green Lantern ring.  Twice I was at a birthday party and got my face painted with the Green Lantern mask.

We have new chicks at our house.  They live in our kitchen in a little chick house.  I named the biggest one Chickadee;  she has funny short feathers growing all over her.  When they grow up they will live in the garden with the other chickens.  I like to stroke them and feed them food from my hand. 

Love,

Franklin

Four years eight months

Hello world!

My mummy and I grew a pumpkin in our garden.  I helped water it sometimes.  We grew another one, but we cooked it already.  We're going to make pumpkin pie.

I like to practise riding my bike;  I push with my feet and glide.  I can put on my helmet and pads by myself.  One time I rode my scooter to school, but usually my mummy and I just walk.  It's really muddy in the field, so we walk on the path which is only a little muddy.  I wear wellies.

We had a bonfire and I helped put wood on it.  My mummy had a big stick to poke the bonfire.  I also had my own stick for poking;  then I found another stick.  My stick said to my mummy's: "look, mummy stick:  I have a sister;  she has two legs!"  Then I showed my mummy how the sister stick could walk.  The brother stick could only hop.

I still like to sneak into my mummy and daddy's bed at night, but I sleep most of the night in my own bed.  I'm going to get a new room soon, that used to be my daddy's room.  He's making a new room in the attic and I'm helping.  Then I'll get his old room, and I'll get to play in the attic too.  I said that I want my new room to be painted purple or black.  I like black the best.

Love,

Franklin

Four years seven months

Hello world!

We got four new chickens and I named them all.  There's Red, Brown, Blue, and Moldy.  We also got lots of fish for our pond.  I told the fish all about my holiday to Belgium, and also what I did at school.  I feed them fish food, too.  I helped my daddy and mummy dig the pond, and I like to do pretend fishing with a stick.

Today I said to my mummy, "I want to garden.  What can I plant?"  So together we planted some lettuce and other salad.  I sat down on my gardening gloves.  I still like to eat carrots and peas from our garden.  And I like to eat mint, too. 

I'm learning letters at school.  Then I'll be able to read.  I can read and type some words already, like mum, dad, bus, car, and Franklin.  I also like to spell words with the magnets on the fridge.  I have a little sign for my cars that says KEEP OUT, and I found all the right magnets and spelled it by myself.

I told my mummy:  "You are Lois and I'm Clark Kent.  Lois?"
My mummy said, "Yes Clark Kent?"
"Did you know," and I unzipped my hoodie and showed her my shirt, "I'm Superman!"

Love,

Franklin

Four years six months

 Hello world!

 

Now that I'm four, I go to school all day.  I have a uniform and I put it on myself, but my dad tied my tie.  Every day I walk to school with my mummy, change out of my boots and into my shoes, hang up my things on my peg, and go to my class.  Most of my friends from nursery school are in my class, and I get to see my old nursery teachers a lot because they're just next door to my new class.  

I really like playing outside at school, and eating lunch in the hall.  My teacher calls it school dinner, though.  I have my own lunchbox with a blue kitten on it, and I eat things like ham, cucumber, olives, cheese, and grapes.  

When school is over, my mummy comes to the class door and then we walk back home.  I hang up my things at home--I have my own peg at home too--and I change out of my uniform into my normal clothes. 

I really like Superman and Batman.  I have a lego man of both of them, and I sometimes wear my Halloween costume cape to be them;  it has a red side for Superman and a black side for Batman. 

Love,

Franklin

Four years five months

Hello world!

We have a conker tree.  I like to open the conkers by stepping on them, or smashing them with a brick.  I also like to smash snails, but not always.  Sometimes I watch them crawl and touch them gently with a stick to make their eyes move.  I only smash snails in our garden though, not anywhere else.

I like to stroke our chickens, but they only like it a little bit.  Guinea lets me stroke her a couple times, and so does Scary, but then they walk away.  I told my mummy, "the chicken said, 'thank you, no more strokes please!'"  Scary really likes my shoes.  She always comes to me and looks at them.  She's not allowed to peck them, though.  I also like to turn over stones and boards for chickens, so they can eat the bugs and slugs underneath.  There was a really big slug on one board, and I told my mummy, "chickens only have small mouths, so they can't eat it."

On our walk there are lots of blackberries now.  I eat lots, even if they're sour.  There's also other things I like but aren't ready yet:  apples, plums, nuts.  Also sloes, that I liked when I was little;  I'll have to try them again this year to see if I still like them. 

I can write my whole name, first and last, and also type it.  I can spell it out loud too.  I really like to do colouring books with my mummy.  We have two good ones and we both colour.  I also love to cut out shapes with scissors, and make crafts.  My friend Angela from London gave me some finger puppet kits and badge kits, and I made them all by myself, with only a little help.

Love,

Franklin

Four years four months

Hello world!

My dad takes me to the cinema to see a movie sometimes.  I call it the "similar".  I saw Frozen, and I have the CD.  When we drive in the car, I like to listen to Frozen.  I tell my mummy and daddy which part to sing, but I always sing Elsa's songs.

I ate the cherries on our cherry tree.  They were  kind of sour, but I really like them anyway.  I helped my mummy pick them for our freezer too.  I also like to eat them frozen.

I finished my school now, and I get to go to big school in six weeks.  I met my new teachers and saw my new classroom;  it's right next door to my old classroom, and most of my friends will be in my class.  I will go to school for a whole day, not just mornings.  It's so exciting!

I can play "Twinkle twinkle" and "ABCD" on the piano all by myself, and sing along too.  My dad got me two kazoos and we can play them together.  I'm very good at playing kazoo.  Sometimes my mummy plays my favourite piece on the piano, "Pictures at an Exhibition," and I will play my drum with her.

My favourite toy to play with is lego and duplo;  I like to build things and play with the little people.  I make them talk to each other and play games.  I built a car shop and the people all bought cars and went racing.

Love,

Franklin