As Portrayed by Mom and Dad
Today we took a trip to Fast Eddies Slot Car Track down in Pinellas Park. We had a lot of fun racing the cars. I was a really good driver and managed to only fly my car off the track a few times. Grandma Susie and Mom took turns in the rough turn to put the cars back on. Mom used to race slot cars when she was little so gave us all some good pointers.
Today at Homeschool Swim Workshop we had a chance to jump off the diving board. I really WANTED to do it, but I was just scared, terrified in fact. Â I made it to the end and then came back. It was just too much for me. It resulted in near 2 hour of crying about how I wanted to do it but was TRULY TERRIFIED! Mom offered for me to pick an incentive if that would help me take my mind off long enough to jump. I wanted iPad time. She agreed if I jumped I got an hour. Well, I didn’t jump. Mom said she would give me 15 minutes for trying to jump. I screamed and cried more and more. I eventually calmed down, there is no negotiating with me when I am in that “place” and Mom just has to let me work it out and calm down myself. Such a perfectionist yet so afraid. I am only SEVEN!
I made up for my rough morning with a LOT of great shots at archery. I was excited to try out my new arrows. I didn’t want to shoot at the bags. I was all about the 3D targets tonight. I took on the turkey and had over 10 kill shots before calling it quits for the evening.
Today they offered a free homeschool day at the Dali Museum. Mom had signed up a long time ago. We have read about Dali and watched some videos when we studied him in the World’s Greatest Artists book series. I love the building and all the geometric shapes and symmetry.
We checked out the park nearby to kill some time before the 10am opening of the museum.
They had a garden area with sculptures of the giant mustache.
I greatly enjoyed the topiary type bushes that made a giant rabbit-dragon?
I thought the bench was hilarious! What a twisted mind.
The maze entertained me, even if it was raining.
Inside we listened to a headphone audio tour. I was happy they had a “kids” version. I laughed out loud many times. So loud people were starring at me but that is nothing new! I learned how wacky Dali really was. He was an outside of the box kinda guy and I think that is awesome. I thought some of his paintings were very small but had amazing details. I enjoyed learning about all the symbols in his paintings like melting objects, clocks, crutches and his bald headed father with no brains.
This was my favorite painting because it tricked me. I saw the bull in the botton left fairly quickly. It took me a while to find the matador (he is wearing a giant green necktie). This painting is 18 feet tall! Dali got his inspiration from a box of colored pencils with the Venus De Milo on the front.
We played with the interactive spear and the camera.
I thought this looked like we were laying on the floor.
We enjoyed the art room. I watched as B worked on his tessellation project. Mom helped me make a puppy dog one.
We saw lots of friends and drew and colored for quite a long time.
I really enjoyed the trip to the Dali museum. Oh, MC Escher had a traveling exhibit. His work really spoke to me because of all of his use of symmetry. You all know that I am Mr. Symmetrical!
Sunday mornings we are usually up and out doing something as a family lately. The weather turned for the cooler for a few days so we opted for a morning hike at the park. The trails were closed in some parts due to a collapse along the boardwalk from all of the rain a month ago. Â We pointed out all of the fauna and flora that we knew. I am getting to be quite the plant expert. We even quizzed dad and taught him tips to identify different palmettos, mangroves and more.
After our hike we wandered the honey bee festival. I enjoyed seeing all the animals. Then I saw it out of the corner of my eye…
HONEY! MOM, DAD! HONEY!
I need new honey as my bear is almost empty. I am a honey connoisseur. I sampled the varieties that they had and picked a fall and a summer honey. They have more of a kick because of the brazillian pepper! Who knew!
So nowI can have my PB and honey sandwiches. 
After our homeschool classes today I wanted to go to the playground until B was done with his PE class. I have been working on trying to climb up to the top of this spinning yellow thing. Today I was finally able to get one foot up.
Then two!
Then ME!
I was so proud of myself. I have been working on this skill for a few weeks.