Four years two months

Hello world!

We have a big green frog in our frog pond.  I showed it to my friend Kostek, who's three.  I showed him our chickens too.  I like to help my mummy get the eggs from our chickens, and I eat them.  I eat eggs every day for breakfast.

I got my hair cut;  I saw myself in the mirror after, and I had a good long look.  I told my mummy:  "I'm not Franklin any more.  I'm a different boy!"

I went to the children's centre on Thursday.  I asked my mummy every day if it was Thursday yet, and then finally it was!  I played with all the toys and did all the activities and saw all the kids.  Madeline from my school was there, too, but most of the kids were just babies.  After playing we had snacks:  my favourite.  Then when we went home, I said to mummy:  "I'm going to read my book and have a rest."  I read my book then laid down on the couch and had a nice refreshing sleep.  I don't usually have a sleep during the day, unless it was a super fun day.

Sometimes I make my animals talk to each other, or my cars.  I made my egg talk to my daddy.  It said, "I think Franklin wants to eat me now."


Love,

Franklin

Four years, one month

Hello world!

I know about a lot of things.  If I don't know a word, I ask what it is.  I know most words, though.  I count past twenty, and I can sing "ABCD" all the way through.  I write some of my name, and I can recognise it written down.  I really like rhymes.  I told my mummy: "Chloe rhymes with clothing."

My mummy planted a pea shrub out back;  it's such a funny word, whenever I see it I yell:  "pea shrub! pea shrub! pea shrub!"  I love gardening.  I pick daffodils for people, and I really want to open up the tulips to see what's inside.  I pick my own broccoli and eat it, too;  it's delicious.

I'm also good at chores;  I always turn on the washing machine, and I like to help turn on the microwave.  I put my own clothes in the laundry basket, and I help my mummy hang them up.  I take my own plate to the sink, and I'm very good at setting the table. 

I ask my mummy when my daddy is coming home every day.  I say:  "is daddy coming through the door today?"  If he is, then I tell my mummy:  "when he comes, he'll say Hello Franklin!"  Sometimes he doesn't come till I'm in bed.  But sometimes he comes and he puts me to bed.  Before, we read Winnie the Pooh at bedtime.  Now we've finished and we're reading The Hobbit.  Bilbo forgot his handkerchief, and then Gandalf was missing.  My dad does all the funny voices, and my mummy does them too.

Our chicken Speckles was feeling very bad, and then she died.  We buried her in a hole.  Other chickens are buried there, too.  I like to look at the stones.  Our dog Beauty died, too.  I still remember.  My mummy was feeling bad, and I asked, "mummy, are you feeling yucky like the chicken?" 

Love,

Franklin

Four years old

Hello world!

I'm four.  I go to nursery school every day for 3 hours;  my teacher is Mrs Thornton and I call her Mrs Yornton.  My best friend at school is named Corey and I also play with Savannah.  At home I play with the kids on the street:  Kyle, Chloe, Daniel, Jack;  they're all older than me.  I ride my scooter with them, and on Sunday we drew chalk pictures on the pavement.  Sometimes I go over to Kostek's house to play;  he's almost 3 and his mummy makes really good snacks.  I also go to Eileen's house for good snacks.  She's 85 and goes to the shop to buy me breadsticks.

My favourite thing to play is cars, but I also love board games and books.  I also like playing with blocks and legos.  My favourite colour is still black, and my favourite movie is Mary Poppins but I like lots of other movies too.  I love to listen to CDs and sing songs.  I know a lot of songs from school, and from CDs and from movies.

My daddy goes to work a lot and I miss him when he's gone.  I ask my mummy when he's coming back and what day he has off.  Sometimes my dad has a day off and he takes me to school.  I usually see him in bed, though;  I like to wake up in the night and sneak into my mummy and daddy's bed.  It's cozy in there.

I had a birthday and I got to open lots of presents and eat cheesecake with plums and cream.  Then the next week I went to my friend Ignacy's birthday party at a playground inside a big building and I climbed and slid and ran and ate cake there.  It was so great.  I ask my mummy whose birthday it is next;  birthdays are so much fun.

Love,

Franklin

Thirty three months two weeks

Hello world!

In the morning when I get up, I go to my mummy's room and hop into her bed and tell her, "hugs."  We have a snuggle for a little while, and then we get up.  I get my clothes from my dresser and we both get dressed, then I say, "downstairs, breakfast eggs!"  I eat eggs almost every morning.  Sometimes I ask for "two yolks" but mostly I eat them like an omelette.  I also love bacon and sausages but I don't eat them every day.

I'm really good at having my photo taken.  I like it a lot.  My mummy says, let me take your picture right here, and so I hold still and look at the camera.  When she goes behind me, I turn around so she can see me.  I also find things for her to take pictures of, like books and cars. 

I have a little cough and snot, but it's not too bad.  I keep a hanky in my pocket so I can blow my own nose.  Except I don't really blow, just sort of sniff and wipe. 

We have a Christmas tree with lights.  I get to turn on the lights.  I'm very careful.  We went for a drive when it was dark and saw lots of lights.  I yelled, "Christmas lights!  Loads of Christmas lights!"  I got a Christmas card from my neighbour Eileen.  I told my mummy it had a "snowman, Christmas tree, star, Christmas man."  My mummy said his name is Santa, so now I say, "Christmas man Santa."  

Love,

Franklin

Thirty two months four weeks

Hello world!

I took my yellow car to bed with me for a nap.  When I got up, I asked my mama where it was, but then I remembered.  I ran back upstairs and got my yellow car, and I told my mama, "yellow car sleeping.  Yellow car woke up."

I like to help my mama turn pages in books and newspapers.  Sometimes I can't wait for her to finish reading, and I turn the page.  I also still like to read books by myself.  I sit on the floor and read all the pages. 

I know how to play hide and seek.  I play with my mama and daddy.  My daddy counted and me and my mama hid behind the sofa.  My daddy looked in all the wrong places for us--it was so funny I couldn't help giggling, and he found us!  Then my mama counted while my dad hid, and we went looking for him.  He wasn't hiding behind the sofa, or in the kitchen;  he was in the closet!  I like to play hide and seek with my mama;  when she was cooking, I hid behind the table, and called out, "where Franklin gone?"  My mama didn't know so I popped out and yelled, "Here he is!"

I sat on the potty to pee and instead of going in the potty like usual, it went flying across the room.  I wiped it up with a cloth.  The next day, I reminded my mama, "wee-wee jump out of potty!"

I think my favourite show to watch is Arthur.  I watch it sometimes with my mama, and I sing along with the end of the song: "hey!"  I say, "hey, DW!"  I call her "Dee-duboo".  Then Arthur says whoa, and I say, "Arthur fell down!"  I love that part. 

Love,

Franklin

Thirty two months three weeks

Hello world!

I call broccoli "green trees," and cauliflower is "white trees."   I know their real names too.  Sometimes I like to play a game with my dad, naming things.  I say, "count again!" and then we name things like "table," "tablecloth," "placemat," and "cup."  This week I learned how to say the "Sp" sound;  I said "spoon," not "soon."

My dad stayed home instead of going to work.  I get to spend all day with him when he's home.  He gets up with me in the morning, helps me get dressed and eat, and we hang out.  When my dad says, "mummy does it for you," I say, "daddy helps!"  And then he helps me with my coat or the carseat.  My mama only helps me if my dad's not there.

I ran in laughing to my mama, and told her "doggy funny mouth!"  Our dog's lip was curled up and her tooth poked out.  It was hilarious!

I got to eat turkey and pumpkin pie with lots of cream.  Mostly I just ate the cream.

Love,

Franklin

Thirty two months two weeks

Hello world!

My dad fixed his computer and then turned it on.  I was so excited, I danced around yelling, "blue light on!  Hooray!"  I told my mama that fireworks were "noisy stars in sky."  I watched them out the window.  I also worked out about numbers;  after nine comes ten and eleven, so after nineteen comes tenteen and eleventeen.  Something else I really like is the jingle on the radio;  I sing along: "BBC Radio Two."

I talked to my gramma on the computer again and I read her two books.  I read about daddy bears, baby bears, ducks, trees, swings, and bed.  My gramma really liked my stories.  I also ran downstairs and brought up as many toys as I could carry to show her.  I carried five toys upstairs all at once. 

I think my favourite foods are carrots, cheese, grapes, and olives.  When it's dinner time I always eat the meat first, then the vegetables.  I really like vegetables from the garden;  there's still a couple beans and peas in the garden to eat, but I ate all the carrots.  We need to grow more so I can pull them up and eat them.  And I ate all the apples my mama picked for me.  She made some into juice too, and I drank it. 

My dad has a special purple pen.  It never washes off.  I drew on the bed with it.

Love,

Franklin