Hello from Portland

Hi Claire and Stella!

Last week we went to my cousins's house and we got to see their baby calves. They were black and really cute. They mooed a lot. Their names were One and Two. :) We also went crawdadding in a lake. My dad picked one up and Jenny even dived in to get them. She is really brave. We caught a lot of them, but then let them go.

In July I went to a camp called Willowbrook and my friend Gabrielle and I were in a play called Dr. Doolittle. We were the sick monkeys on an island. My name was Hickory and Gabrielle didn't have a name and was just called "Monkey". We also did weaving, we learned how to finger weave, and weave on straws to make belts. There was an art center where we did tye dye and beading. We made beaded wind chimes. We had a clay tent and where we did the play was called the drama tent.

I went to Camp Tilikum, your mom knows about it because she went there too. It is an awesome camp. We went swimming and jumped out a raft into the lake. We sang songs and what was really funny was for people who whined, there was a whining tree. Our counselors had very funny names. Mine's name was Goose because he got pooped on by a goose one time. And he had to swim in the river and use a girl named Sock's sock to dry his head. The theme was the 4:13 Express. Since it was train theme, we made train whistles and got to paint them. I love to blow it all the time and drive my parents crazy. It's fun to blow it though. It makes a cool sound.

Ta ta for now, I'm watching the Olympics. More later-