The Adventures of Art Lad

Wow, it has been a month almost. I have been very busy. I am reading a ton now and reading things all by myself. I am liking reading almost as much as drawing. But drawing is still my favorite.

I tried to draw a goodbye card for Great-Papa because he died a couple Sundays ago and he is in heaven now. Dad went and saw the body. I was sad because he was nice. We had good talks on the phone, even though he talked funny--like Grandma only worse. We both liked baseball. I sent him a thank-you because he sent me money at Christmas and I used it to buy some paper and pens. I sent Dad a picture to give to him. He is the first person I ever met who was dead.

We also had some busy things at school, like Fun Night, where the school gets like a carnival and there are rides and games to play. That was fun!

But today was Valentine's Day. I made special cards for my good friends and the rest got cards from a box. I made Mrs. Dodd a heart one and I did that for my friends. Caitlin gave me a lollypop and a coupon to get a donut because she knows I like them. She is nice for a girl and Dad says it's okay to be friends with girls so we are friends.

I made her a Valentine out of red paper and glued squiggly white paper around it. She liked that.

I made this card for my Dad. It has dinosaurs in it. They didn't have cards in the dinosaur days so this tells what they did instead. My sister screamed but Dad liked it. I colored it on the computer and wrote the words myself. Here it is.






We are going away on vacation soon. Dad says it needs to come sooner. He is really tired and says he can't wait. We are going to Florida where it is sunny and part of the time we are going to Disney. That will be neat. I will draw lots of pictures. I really want to see the Animal Kingdom.

Guess what? I am in a book!

Me and the Animal Planet Lady and the Twinkie! It is this book.





It doesn't have any of my pictures, but that is okay. I have never been in a book before.

Dad is not in the book, which I think is dumb. But he doesn't mind it. He says he is more happy that I am in there. I guess I need to put more stuff here in case people come looking.

It was a neat thing to find out. It was like an extra Valentine for me.

But not as good as the lollypop Caitlin gave me.

Bye!

Thomas