My Birthday List.

Since my birthday is coming up next week, I thought maybe it would be a good idea to put some ideas out there and maybe save you guys some time and not have to talk to mom alot. For my Christmas present, Nana gave me some Breyer Horses. They came with a little catalog of what is coming out. I'm going to start from that.

One of the things I was thinking of that would be nice to have is a white mare with roses around her neck and her left hoof and her tail. Her name is "Andalusian".

There's another one I like called "Sport Horse Danaway Tango". I like this one because he looks very pretty and handsome. It's the kind of horse that I really like.

Some other ones that are really, really nice are called "The Fantasy Series".

Let's take a break from horses and go to other things. There's something called Dream Life. It's a game that comes with a remote and a system that hooks up to t.v. You can pick a girl and choose what she looks like and does and make friends and everything.

You will probably recognize this from my Christmas list, a "Nintendo DS" and some games. One particular game that I like is a game called Nintendo Pets. I think it's called that. You get a puppy and you raise him and you raise him and play with him, it's a really cool game.

There's also something called "Knit and Gem". It's a machine that comes with yarn to make really pretty hats, scarves and gloves and stuff. You can also put gems on them.

For my birthday, Mom and Dern are going to take the night off from work. One of their employees are working for them .We are going out to dinner at a new place that we've never been to before.

I would also like to have some phone calls, perhaps maybe before my birthday just to hear what's happening.

Dad, you said that maybe you, Connor and Dianna would come up for my birthday, but I don't really know what's going on because I haven't heard from you for six weeks. I counted it on my calendar. I'd really like for that to happen. If you can't come up for my actual birthday, then it doesn't matter when you come up cause I'd like to see you. I understand if you can't, but please just do your best. It would really be appreciated.

Hope to see you soon, I love you guys very much.

Cody.

My First Hang- Out with my Big Sister Erin

On Friday I hung out for the first time with my Big Sister Erin. We had a really good time. Erin picked me up at my mom's work and then she and I went to her house. We decided to go to the grocery store to buy dinner. We decided to do tacos. After we got back from the grocery store we cooked dinner. I got to help! With our tacos we also had rice, a salad with lettuce, cucumber, croutons and celery. We also split a quesadilla.

While we were waiting for dinner to be done we went over our list of things to do that Big Brother Cody gave us. There were 150 things. I thought it was a lot of things to do! I think we'll do about half.

After we cleaned up dinner we watched a movie that I brought from the library. It was about a little black girl who was the first to go into a white only school. I thought it was very interesting.

Mom and Dern came and picked me up. I had a really good time with Erin. I think it's gonna be a good match!

My New Aquarium

Today we went out and bought some new fish because I got a new aquarium from Santa. I got two Guppys, a Tiger Barb, a Beta and a frog. The girl Guppy is going to have babies soon. We also got a live plant and sand gravel to go on the bottom.

After we got home from the pet store we got started right away making our aquarium livable. First mom washed out the rocks since they were a little dirty. Then I washed out my shell stones that Santa gave me in my stocking. We put all my friends in their bags into the aquarium to sit for 30 minutes to adjust to the water. Before all that we put my two goldfish into the new tank and put the old tank into the garage.

After 30 minutes we opened everybody up and put them into the aquarium. It only took a few seconds for my frog to go right down to a corner by some rocks. It stayed there a very long time. At first I got a little worried because when ever a fish would swim by, the frog would just stay there. It looked like it died but it didn't. I left it alone and went away and by the time I came back, the frog had moved over to the plant.

There is more good news. It seems that my frog made a friend. I thought he might have been missing his other frog friends but he made friends with my boy Guppy. I'm really glad and my frog looked much more happier.

I'd put a picture of my aquarium on here if I could, but my camera is out of batteries. I'll put some pictures of all my fish up here and I'll also take pictures of my Guppie's babies too as soon as I can.

The Bahia view

This is the view of Bahia coming into town. There are many islands. This is Casa Diaz where the dance was and where we hang out. I'm sad to say that we don't have a picture of "Beto". He's a parrot that belonged to Mama and Papa Diaz. He calls for Papa all the time. I feed him chilis and scratch his neck and head. We'll do our best to take a picture of Beto next time.

Our New Years

For New Years we went to Bahia de Los Angeles. It's been an entire year since I've been there. That's an all time record! We thought we were going to be alone this trip, but we had a surprise. We had some friends drop in and it was fun to have them with us. Our friends Michael and Amy were there. Michael really looks like Santa Claus.

We went off roading to Playa Rafael to see Pancho to give him his Christmas present. I took a picture in his chair made out of a Sperm Whale skull. We tried to fish but we didn't catch anything. There was a dead coyote on the beach. He had big, sharp and pointy teeth. That same night we got back to town and all of our friends met us and came to our camp.

The next day we went off roading again. It was fun to go up and down the dirt roads. We saw a lot of cool mountains and rocks that were shaped like people. We went to two beaches I've never been to before. We ran into a fisherman who got his van stuck. On the way out Dern was teasing me that there were dead bodies in it. Everyone started teasing me that it was a mortician's van. Mom had to explain to me what a mortician was. Our friend Mike pulled the mortician's van out and I gave him some Christmas cookies.

The New Years Eve dance was at Casa Diaz and it was really cool. I was going to pull an all nighter but I began to get cold and tired so I ended up pulling an all nighter in the truck watching movies. Dern tried to wake me up at 11:30. I woke up but fell back asleep so he figured I was too tired and he didn't push it.

When I woke up it was 2006. Mom and Dern said that they tried to wake me up but I just couldn't do it. We all went back to the trailers where I watched a little more dvd before going to sleep.

On New Year's day I swam in the Sea of Cortez. I thought it was going to be less cold but it wasn't. The little brown fish started to bite me, but they don't really bite you, they eat your dead skin. They're really cool looking.

Then it came time to go the next day. It was funny cause Charlie tried to hide from mom cause he knew the only place left to go was back to Morro Bay. We got him in the truck and we left.

We went to Patchen's cabin and then to Ralph and Pat's house who live in Catavina. Ralph gave me a space rock called a Meteorite. It's really cool. It will make a compass hand spin.

We ended our trip back home in Ensenada. It was really fun but I want to go back cause it feels like you only spend an hour there instead of days.

Our Christmas

For Christmas this year we went down to Mexico. We went down a day before Christmas Eve, the day I got out of school. I came home, we had a nap, then we left. It was around 6pm. I was happy because Aunt Ruth gave me a new dvd called The Polar Express to watch on the way down. I watched the movie for most of the way down. We did In and Out Burger for dinner and got to our house around 2 in the morning.

The next day we went and got a Christmas tree. It was a little brown, but it was really pretty. After we bought our tree we went to El Recreo in Maneadero for lunch. It was very good. Our special guy Sabino was there and he knows exactly what I like. After we got our tree home, we fixed it by chopping some of the stem off so it wouldn't be too long, he put it in the tree stand, then we all took a nap then we decorated it.

The next day was Christmas Eve. Lynette came over and we baked Christmas cookies. Lynette is my best friend that lives a block away from our house. She also helped me build the Santa table. Lynette and I were still decorating cookies when our good friend Terry came for dinner. Lynette stayed a little longer and then I walked her home. When I got back I decorated some more cookies and then we ate dinner. We ate my mom's enchiladas. I really like my mom's enchiladas. Before dinner we did our party crackers. Crackers are these little party things where there's a middle and openings on the sides. There are strings on the sides and when everyone says go you pull the strings. You get a tissue paper hat inside and a surprise. I got a little ball. Dern got a little whoopie cushion. Terry got a little horse puzzle which he gave to me. We can't remember what mom got.

After a while dinner was finished and mom let me open one present early. We always open one present on Christmas eve. Terry stayed for that then he went home. I got a really pretty Breyer horse from our dog Cora. We had family time and watched some TV on the couch. Mom read me one of my favorite stories called "Merry Christmas Stinky Face". We said good night and I went to bed after I wrote my letter to Santa and set out his cookies and Cheerios and dried cranberries for the reindeer.

I woke up around 4 in the morning and I had to go potty. Then when I came out of the bathroom I looked from the kitchen and Santa had come! Of course it was too early to get up so I went back to bed. A while later I heard mom and Dern and I went out. We watched a little bit of tv together and then we opened presents. I got a lot of cool presents. I got a lot of Breyer horses which I really love, three puzzles, an aquarium and an iQuest from Santa. Mom and Dern went into storage and got all my Barbies and brought them to Ensenada and wrapped them and we took everything out and then my mom and I played with them. Santa gave us a family camera like last year he got us a family lap top computer. We did our stockings last and mom put hers out too. I got a package of Nutter Butter cookies, a candy bar, two things of popcorn and a Lifesaver Storybook and a little toiletry bag and a toothbrush and toothpaste, little dinosaurs that have dental floss in their mouths and some chapstick. My mom got the banana and an orange and gold chocolate coins and mini twizzlers.

We did some phone calls. We called Grammie's house and talked to Uncle Billy, Grammie, Grandpa and Connor. They had a good Christmas too. Aunt Kathy and Uncle Peter were there and their little boy Ian. We also talked to Nana in Texas. I'm not really disappointed that my dad didn't call me for Christmas, I expected that he probably wouldn't call me anyways.

For Christmas dinner we had a stuffed goose with wild rice and Chantrelle mushroom stuffing. It was ok, but I'd rather have a turkey. I'm just more used to turkey. We had more family time and went to beddy.

All in all we had a good Christmas!

Connor's Surprise Visit

A couple weeks before Christmas my brother Connor came and surprised me with a visit. He showed up on a Thursday and he picked up me at school that day. When he came in the office with mom to pick me up I gave him a big hug.

After we went home I did homework then we decided to go to dinner at Hofbrau. We went home and baked Christmas cookies. We looked at his myspace which is like a blog. We gave Connor his presents and he gave mom a shiny trout like fish stapler. We did computer some more until bedtime. Connor slept in my room. He got the bed with Cora our dog and I got the floor. Before bed I ended up falling asleep on Connor on the couch.

In the morning we noticed that Cora was making a hacking, weird breathing noise. Connor said to go tell mom since I was up and he was still all tucked in bed. Mom said that she's just being silly. We figured out when mom came in to say good morning, that Cora had thrown up on Connor. Connor got cleaned up and we cleaned everything else up. We got dressed and ready to go and have breakfast. Dern had to go to work so we went to the coffee shop. Mom and Connor got coffee and I got hot chocolate.

We went to watch the surf at the rock then we went to Planet. Connor and I had breakfast and then we talked for a little bit before going to L.A. to visit my dad's side of the family.

It was a really great surprise to see Connor. I liked him coming up here and I want him to do it again. My favorite part was when I got to sit with Connor to look at the computer and ended up falling asleep.