Because we have two crazy kittens (well, one particularly crazy kitten – Finley!), we didn’t get a regular Christmas tree this year.
Instead, we bought a tiny living Christmas tree that we’ll keep for years and years. But I still decorated it!
Finley was still interested in the tiny tree!
It’s a pretty little tree, huh?
I’ve been trapped at home for so long, I really wanted to go to Portland and have a big day.
First, I wanted to go to Forest Park and hike to the Witch’s Castle.
After walking for almost a mile, we found it!
Then we had to walk back up to go to our next stop.
We ordered some food from Burgerville and went to Peninsula Park to have our lunch.
This is usually a big rose garden so it looked kind of weird to have a field of dead roses. But I liked running around the edge of it.
It was a fun day! We even ended it by picking up some donuts! (I got chocolate frosted.)
In honor of Thanksgiving, I made a gratitude journal at school.
I saw Finley jump up on the bookshelf thingy, so I decided I needed to get up there, too!
Finley is still king of the mischief makers, though.
We put up some shelves for the cats and Finley mostly uses them as a chance to attack Sunnie!
I get to do a lot of drawings at school. Ms. Murphy is really good at doing drawing tutorials. Here is my drawing of a healthcare hero. I named her Dr. Julianna.
This is how I imagine my “Magical Yet.” She’s kind of like a fairy who helps me eventually do things that I don’t know how to do…yet.
We often watch videos from a website called Scratch Garden. They are so funny and I love them. One of the characters is a beaker that Ms. Murphy taught us how to draw. I also gave him a beaker friend.
This is what a Cat Ball field looks like. Your goal is to get the ball past the Finley Line.
P=Pitcher. A=Against Maker. L & R = Left and Right. Y=Yowler.
My favorite YouTuber is Anna Akana. She is famous for making the music video, “I Have 6 Cats.”
Speaking of 6 cats…
Mommy and I were making chocolate bread in the bread machine, and during the kneading process, we added chocolate chips. So we ended up with a little dough ball with chocolate chips stuck all around it.
Me: Aww, it looks like a little coronavirus bread!
Finley started feeling really bad and it turned out he had urinary crystals that nearly blocked his urethra. So he had to spend a lot of time at the vet getting fluids and having tests done. Good thing the vet techs there are so nice! Brenda gave him lots of cuddles and sent us a picture.
Now he’s healthy again and enjoying his favorite spot – the window perch. He even found a bug on the other side of the window that he was very interested in.
Sunnie missed her brother and was happy to have him back.
I missed him, too! I’m glad he’s feeling well again.
On the afternoon of Election Day, I was glued to the computer looking at the Electoral College map. It was less an interest in politics, and more an interest in anything involving maps! I made a special announcement every time Biden or Trump won another state.
And then the whole next day…I basically just stared at the map some more.
We celebrated a socially distanced Halloween this year!
First, we carved pumpkins and Sunnie was very curious about this ritual.
We also made a sign for our candy table.
I dressed up as an orange tabby, like Sunnie! Meow!
We didn’t knock on doors this year, but our town did a lot of candy tables, bowls, and chutes.
How awesome is this black cat pumpkin someone painted?
Despite the unusual Halloween, I still brought in a big candy haul! My favorites were Sour Patch Kids and Kit Kats.
As usual, I’ve been doing tons of drawings, both at school and at home. Here are some of them!
For school, I drew a picture of something I did over the summer.
I also drew about something you could do to go from being a “Bad Seed” to a “Good Egg.”
This is a drawing about how we learn by making mistakes.
This is a drawing of me imagining if six cats could drive.
I followed a drawing tutorial at school to draw a happy ice cream cone.
And I did another drawing tutorial to draw a bat.
At home, I love to draw roller coasters like Kingda Ka! This is one where Kingda Ka rolled back.
Here are a bunch of people about to ride Kingda Ka.
Here are some of the rivers you cross to drive from Portland to Seattle.
Here is the Queensboro Bridge and a New York City skyscraper.
I love to draw cats and this is an orange tabby, like Sunnie!
Finally, here is a cat in a crate going on a car ride.
