Learning Log #7

"More learning logs? So I get to talk more!" Hugs says with excitement.


For Halloween we always make our own costumes.  We were Lord of the Rings this year.  And we needed to sew our ribbon onto our dresses for my belt.  So Mama got a blue piece of cloth that was extra from our cloaks and gave it to Tumbelina and me to sew ribbon leaves onto.  It was very hard because you had to poke through the leaf and make a very tiny stitch and then you need to make a very long stitch three leaves away on the bottom and then poke it out and make a little stitch.  So on and so forth. So there is little stitches on the front and huge stitches on the back.  We also had to sew our cloaks How we did this is we cut a half circle of cloth out of bed sheets.  And then we cut a straight line.  We put the straight line over our heads.  And the straight line was just big enough to touch our forehead and touch the back of our head.  And then it was not long enough so what we did is we pinched the part where it touched the back of our head, and then we pinched how long we wanted the hood to be. Then we put hair clipies in those two place to tell us where to sew and to keep our cloth together.  Then you start at one clipie and sewed all the way to the other clipie. And we had to make sure to sure stitch at the beginning or our string and at the end of our string.  And I sewed completely by hand.  Angelic taught me how to sew.  And then I taught my brother.  And while I was sewing I learned how to sew an x, I accidentally sewed an x.   Then you take your half circle of cloth and you take the flat side and you sew it to the part of your cloak where you have sewed down for your hood.  Right at the end of where you have been sewing sew out. Which makes like a shape sort of like a flux compositor or a triangle where at every point you draw a line into the middle.  Now we have made a cloak.

Yesterday we went to a Halloween party.  Which we thought was canceled because it was snowing.  But it was not canceled after all.  And so we all got into our costumes and then went to the pavilion.  Where people were setting up Halloween decorations.  Then we helped them set up.  And then we started playing games.  And I can never win at bean bag toss.  But I did  like the fishing game. And I won every single time we played pumpkin racing.  and then we went trick or treating and I went to every single table and said trick or treat.  And then after we went trick or treating we all voted for who we thought was the best costume or who had the best decorated table. And I won second place for the costume contest, and the jaws table won.

Mount Nemrud.  So there was this train guy and he said he found these statues there were very rare.  And then this guy decided to go and check out the statues. And then when they got their they discovered who made the statues. It was a king and the statues were of Greek and Persian gods. And one statue was of the king.  And there was huge hill behind it.  And people think that inside of the hill there is the kings tomb but nobody really knows.  People have tried to excavate but every time the tunnels keep collapsing and end up breaking the statues.  So now it is forbidden to dig into the hill because other wise it will come crashing down and ruin all the statues.   The hill is a whole bunch of limestone rocks, piled up on top of each other into a huge pile.

While we were watching the movie about Mount Nemrud Mama set out a whole bunch of boards for us to paint.  And then Tumbelina set up Littleton to paint a board. And surprisingly he painted very nicely and not very messy.  And then she set up Curious to paint a board and then she set up me to paint a board, and then she set up herself to paint a board.  And then she set up Angelic to paint a board until all the boards were painted.  And then tomorrow we are going to make them into decorations that go around our windows.