Zozo the leprechaun - By Zoe Zachko

Zozo, originally uploaded by szachko.

Hi, I am Zoe the leprechaun. I ride on rainbows to get to place to place. I love gold because it's shiny and pretty like me

Nana's Barbie

Nana's Barbie, originally uploaded by szachko.

Kids received this barbie for Christmas. It turns out it was Nana's barbie. Nana's grandma made lots of fancy dress for Nana's favor barbie. Now, Zozo and Abby are playing this barbie and the dresses everyday. This barbie connects all FIVE generations so far....

How to Train your Viking - by Abigail Zachko

Colonial Williamsburg Day 3, originally uploaded by szachko.

There once was a teacher named Sophie. She teaches young vikings how to be a grown up one. Sophie has brown hair with light brown high lighting, brown eyes, a big viking helmets, fuzzy brown pants and a dark green shirt.

Sophie was a good teacher. She would show her students how to through an ax. She would even tell them how to pick the off the ground. But there was one student that Sophie couldn't handle. Big Tooth.

Big Tooth had one giant buck tooth, a cut off left hand, (it was all wroped up so no one could see it), weird helmet with one horn a lot bigger than the other light green shirt, right leg cut off, (also wraped) brown fuzzy pants and short brown hair.

Big Tooth was horibble at everything.  He couldn't pick up a hammer (made out of only wood), he only ate beans, he only drank mile, he need help with absolutely nothing, well, at least Big Tooth says that.


"What am I going to do with him?"  Sophie said to herself.  She saw some beans and milk sitting on the table and that gave her an idea.

The next morning Sophie put up signs on Big Tooth's saying "Privet classes for Big Tooth at Sat., Sun., Mon., Tu., Thurs. (3:00-3:55)."  Big Tooth saw the poster.  It was Saturday.  Big Tooth got to Sophie's private class at 3:05.  He was only 5 minutes late.  (Who cares)  Sophie said to Big Tooth.  There are beans inside of this door."  Sophie pointed to the door.  "And milk inside the door too.  But..."

Gulp.  Big Tooth had a worried look on his face.

Sophie resumed speaking, "There is a dragon in there, too."

Big Tooth ran out the door with his arms spread out behind him.  "AHHHHHH!!"

"See you tomorrow" Sophie said hopelessly.

On Thursday, Sophie went over the same thing.  This time Big Tooth looked ready.  "are you OK?" Sophie said

"I'm fine.  I just did a little practicing with my daddy."

"Ok" Sophie said opening the door.  A massive dragon came out.  It had read scales, a tail as sharp as a knife and flaming red eyes.  ROAR!! He blew fire everywhere.

Big Tooth dauged every thing the dragon blew.  " I want my beans."  He said as he was getting closer to the door.  Finally, he got to the door.  The door close on him.  Slam!  Sophie went to open the door and put the dragon in another room.  Then she opened the door for Big Tooth.  She found him drinking his milk and a[n] empty plate next to him.

"You did great!"  Sophie said after a moment of silence.

Slurp.

The next day, the private lessons were over and Big Tooth did great at his regular lessons.  Even X-a a very strong girl who was top of the class congratulated him.

As the years went on, Big Tooth got better and better.  In fact, he was the 2nd best wiking in the world.  (The first was Sophie).

2011

2011, originally uploaded by szachko.

It's a brand new year! What are you looking for, my little girl?

Pets

Halloween 2010, originally uploaded by szachko.

Big one always wants to have a dog for pet. I keep telling her that she can have one once she has her own apartment. One day, she figures it out that in order for her to keep a dog in her own apartment, she has to : finish the college, find a real job, make money, has some saving and then she can afford an apartment, and then a dog. It will be a long long time before she can have a dog in her apartment. Yup, lesson well learned. I am very proud of her..

Mamma Mia!!

NYC Broadway, originally uploaded by szachko.

Zozo has seen the movie, Mamma Mia more than 20 times. She likes the movie so much that we decided to choose the same story for her first Broadway show. Zozo stayed on the line about 90 minutes to get the tickets. She was exhausted but the love for this movie made her standup till we got the tickets. She was so excited to get into the theater and could not wait the show to start. However, At the beginning of the show, she kept shaking her head and said to herself: "This is not right, this is not right.." It turned out that Zozo was wondering why the girl on the stage was not the girl in the movie. Well, she got over it very soon and enjoyed the rest the show....

Have you found any crabs?

Star Island, Hew Hampshire, originally uploaded by szachko.

Our daily life is filled with text book, computer, TV, DVD, Wii, and games, I was afraid that kids won't never know how to feel when in the real world. Will they ever know that crabs will line up at the beach to chase the waves? We can not set up a roadmap for their lives. However, we can try our best to show what kind of opportunities out there and what kind of things and places made up our life today. I always remembered the first fish I caught and the natural music when the wave hit the sea shell beach. I hope my kids and kids' kids will have the similar memories, too.