If John Henry Were a Fish

*** Note from Jenny:  Yesterday Ammon saw his Grandma Peggy and told her about his new fish.  As we were driving away he asked, "Can I blog about my fish?"  I told him that we can, and I will help him with a post this weekend.  But in the mean time, I wanted to share this story which was written April 28, 2011***

Ammon acquired four new fish today.  When he came home from school I told him that there was a surprise for him.  I sent him in to find the fish tank.

"There's fish!"

"Yes," I agreed.

"Are they mine?" he asked, barely daring to breath.

"Yes, yours and Peter's," I answered.

He is like me - processes the pleasant but unexpected quietly and slowly.  But I watched and saw the thrilled amazement cross through his face.  He looked a little overwhelmed with joy.

"Can I go get my friends to show them?" he asked.

I sent him out the door, but he stopped and turned back.

"Wait!  How many fish are there?"

"Four."

His face was shining with genuine awe now.  This was beyond his wildest dreams.

***

Later he asked me if he could name his fish.  Of the four, one is particularly recognizable because it is larger then the others.

"I will name him John Henry," he said with determination.

"That sounds like a great name, Ammon, where did you get that idea?"

He explained the idea came from a book he read at school.

"Oh?" I asked, "What is it about?"

Trying not to sounds overly impatient with me Ammon carefully explained, "It's about John Henry."

"OK," I tried again, "but what does John Henry do in the book?"

"Well, some people say he was born with a hammer in his hand," he recited.  "It's a tall tale, Mom."

It sounded familiar so after I went to bed, I googled it.  John Henry is a legend based on an american steel driver who grew to be six feet tall and 200 pounds which, they say, was considered a giant in his day.  Which explains why, just as Ammon was going to sleep, he called me back to his room.

"I can't wait to tell Mrs. Capson tomorrow about my new pets.  I will tell her that I named the big one John Henry.  Because I think this is what John Henry would look like - if he were a fish."

My Friends

Korben, Kyler and Me

 I have a lot of good friends.

We like to play the wii.

Other things we do inside is play No Stress Chess.

Sometimes we play outside.

Patrick, Kyler, Me and Jerson

Me and my friends have so much fun outside.
My friends and I have so much fun outside.

We like to play a certain game.

I don't know what the game is called, so I won't tell you.

I have so much fun playing the game.

Shopping List

My mom needed to write a shopping list.  I decided to do it for her.  She told me what she needed and I wrote it all by myself.  I also helped her add some things to the list - like the apples.  She likes Fuji apples best and Peter likes green apples, but my favorite are the dark red ones.  I also reminded her that we needed new jelly because I dropped the jelly on accident when I was making a sandwich for Peter.  The jar broke and we had to throw it away. 

My mom wants to take me to the book store to buy a new book now that I am done reading Harry Potter.  But I don't want a new book.  I want to read the next Harry Potter story (The Chamber of Secrets).  She said that some of the other books get scary and she wants me to wait until I am older to read them all.  We agreed that I can read books one, two and three.  After that I will read something else and wait until I am nine or ten years old to finish the other Harry Potter books.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Today I finished the book Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.  It is LONG!  My mom and dad helped me read it.  Even Grandpa Derrick read part of it to me once.  I also read a chapter by myself at the read-a-thon in my school class.  When I finished the book, my mom asked me to write about my favorite character.  This is what I wrote:

The Week Before Easter

I am decorating a cup to put dirt and seeds in it.

I had fun throwing bean bags in the bean bag toss.

After the bean bag toss, I played basketball.

After that, I went back and put dirt and seeds in my cup.

Then I had an easter egg hunt.

(But we didn't get any pictures because I was with the big kids and the camera was where the little kids did their egg hunt.  But my Dad came to watch and cheer me on.)

I made sure to only pick up the green eggs because green is my favorite color.

After the egg hunt, I  had a picture taken with the Easter Bunny in it!

Later that day I went to another egg hunt.  This egg hunt was at Grandma Lynn's house.

All of my Nunes cousins were there.

I was the first one to find all of my eggs.  Grandma Lynn knows that green is my favorite color, so my eggs were the green ones.  After I found them all, I went inside and opened them up.  Some of them had numbers in them and Grandma had prizes for us that we could trade our numbered paper for!

One of the prizes Grandma Lynn gave us all was the Bunny masks.  We had fun and pretended that we were bunny super heroes.

I was pretending I was the opposite bunny.