INSECTARIUM!!!!

Hello My Pirate Crew!

My class had an AWESOME field trip to the Insectarium yesterday! What a great place to start our All Audubon All Month Field Trip Fun! First we got to ride there on a school bus, I LOVE riding the school bus and Mr Art is the coolest bus driver, he lets us scream all the way through the tunnel. My dad came with us on the bus and my mom met us down there. We were the first ones in the Insectarium that morning, we love being first! If you haven't been to the Insectarium yet you should totally go, you have to walk through a metal detector before you enter (my mom says thats because its in a federal building and that its part of homeland security, but I think the real reason is because it is FUN, and they want you to take all the money out of your pockets so they know how much you have to spend!).

We got a personal escort through the Insectarium by my moms friends Mr Jayme, and Mr Zack. They are in charge of the Insectarium so it is sooooo cool they spent so much time with us, my mom says they are super busy bug dudes. They told us about all the bugs, and they did some raps for us. That was sooooo cool, they even did a rap with our school in it. I hope someone got a video of that! I also got to see a few more of my mom's friends that work there, Ms Dierdre, Ms Remy, and Ms Ann. I got to pet giant cockroaches, and patent leather beetles.

We also got to eat bugs...Yes my mom and dad and I all ate cinnamon sugar meal worms - I didn't like it too much but my friend Adam loved it - don't tell his mom he doesn't think she would like him eating bugs! Most of the girls wouldn't eat the bugs...but I think maybe one or two of them did. Ms Melonie took a picture of me and mom eating our bugs, I'll post it if I get a copy.

The movie at the Insectarium was really neat. The seat tickles you, it splashes you with water and poofs air at you....it was a little scary at first but I really liked it so I watched it twice! My favorite part of the Insectarium was making the insect on the touch screens, my insect doesn't really exist but the computer said it would probably live!! So I guess I'm a pretty good insect builder. I also loved the butterfly garden, I'm so glad Tanner didn't fall in the butterfly pond!!

After the Insectarium we had a picnic at my favorite park on the WestBank and then went back to school, what a super fun day!!!!! I can't wait for the IMAX next Wednesday.

I have a soccer game this Saturday at 9am, its going to be really busy there because the big kids are having a tournament. I love soccer, and I'm really good. My Aunt Mego comes next week, so I'm super excited about that, and I had my assessment test at St Andrews today - I think it went good but I still want to stay at Brighter Horizons with Ms Jessica next year. My mom says its time to move up for Kindergarten. I plan on talking her into staying at Brighter Horizons, after all Ms Jessica said she could order books for me all the way through high school so I will try and stay with her till then!!!! Mom says Prom with a bunch of 5 year olds probably won't be fun but I don't know what prom is anyway so I'm staying!

Thank you all for praying for me, I am doing really good right now. I finished my chemo last night with NO problems - I actually like taking those pills. No meds for 26 days then we will do some more chemo.

Love you all

Your Pirate Captain Ben

PS Thank you to my Pirate Girl Mommy for typing my message tonight! I told her what to write but I was much to busy building towers to do the actual typing!