It was a lovely spring day, so we went for a walk!
There was still evidence of February’s ice storm on the trails.
Daddy and I tried to karate chop this tree out of the way.
A SPRING WALK
Category Archives: The World
THE LIBRARY IS OPEN! (KINDA)
The library has been closed for the last year, except for curbside pickups. I get a lot of library books for school, so it was a big surprise when they began opening this week. We now have to reserve books online and pick them up once the librarians put them on this shelf.
CANBY FERRY
I’ve been wanting to ride a ferry for a while. Luckily, I found one really close, called the Canby Ferry. We drove to it on a sunny day. It holds four entire cars and takes a full two minutes to cross the Willamette River!
I’m riding on it right now!
MILO PLAYDATE
Milo was in my kindergarten class and is also in my online 1st grade class. Exactly one year and one day after I last saw him, I went to his backyard to play! His brother, Max, is really fun, too.
POWER OUTAGE 2021
Because of the ice storm that hit West Linn, we were out of power for 5 days!
We did stuff like eat cheese quesadillas in the dark…
…And play with water and syringes in the sink.
I hung out with Fluffy, who just happens to glow different colors.
We also had to go buy stuff sometimes. We parked our car across the street and found all sorts of obstacles getting there.
One of the things we bought was an inverter to hook up to our car battery. I waited patiently in this cardboard box while Mommy and Daddy hooked it up.
After the inverter was hooked up, we had enough electricity to charge our computer!
We didn’t have internet, but I found this awesome dinosaur game that showed up on any Chrome page without internet.
On what turned out to be our last night without power, we drove to Oregon City and ate delicious hot pizza in our warm car.
ICEPOCALYPSE
The forecast said to expect snow, but instead, we had little bits of ice falling from the sky. After a while, ice covered everything!
I went outside and slipped and slid all over the place. I couldn’t make any snowmen, but I did do some ice sledding!
COVID-19 VACCINE – DOSE 1
A few days ago, Mommy got a message from OHSU that said, because I was autistic and “medically fragile,” they were in Phase 1A for the Covid vaccine and to sign up for a big vaccine party at the airport.
So we drove up there and found lots of other people there, too.
We brought lots of snacks and I entertained myself by taking selfie videos.
After two and half hours, we could see the tent where Mommy and Daddy were getting their vaccine. I was just happy I wasn’t getting a poke!
Daddy got his first.
Then Mommy.
Then we waited for 15 minutes before they set us free.
They got cool Band-Aids, but I still don’t want one!
ALPHA III ROCKET LAUNCH
Grandma and Grandpa got me a rocket for Hanukkah. Today, we launched it!
I AM 8!
For my birthday, I skipped school and went to Bricks and Minifigs! I had fun building minifigs from the bulk legs, torsos, and heads. And all of their hand sanitizers were in giant Lego bricks!
Then on Daddy’s lunch break, I opened presents!
I experimented with my new dip pen and ink.
And did some of the custom word searches. Thanks to everyone for the gifts. It was a fun pandemic birthday!
PORTLAND DAY
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.)
