For the littles

Hi Evan,

Well, I'm not sure the movie is so good. We were wondering if you saw it and liked it. It had some good parts but a lot of us didn't really like it. So maybe you won't like it either. I guess somebody liked it or we wouldn't have wanted to watch the whole thing.

It's hard sometimes if people who don't like it are watching and saying it's boring or other stuff they don't like while someone is just trying to watch it and enjoy it. Does that happen with you?

Bobby (and Oliver and Claire, too)

Hi Bobby and Claire and Oliver,

I've never seen the movie so I don't know if we'd like it or not. Sometimes we see movies that are too scary but other people want to watch them so I have to hide. There are A LOT of discussions about which movies to watch.

Evan

Hi,

Let's build a circus! What do you want to bring? You can bring people or animals or rides or anything that's fun.

I'm bringing lots of elephants that do tricks and walk in a line around in a circle and people ride them. I want to give them peanuts and watch water come out of their noses.

Now you bring stuff.

Evan (and Iain helping)

Hi Evan,
I don't know if you remember me but my name is robin and I love castle stuff like you.
To the circus I bring tigers that really like to give big roars and jump around. Maybe even through hoops of FIRE.

Oh and a popcorn stand!!

- robin

PS: do you still play with your castle sometimes, Evan?

Hi Evan!! Hi robin!!

Oh, boy. A circus!!

We would like a bunch of silly clowns who drive into the ring in a tiny car and all get out of it and do lots of funny stuff!

And the flashlights that you can wear around your neck so when the lights go down you can wave them back and forth.

Claire (and others)

Hi robin, I remember you. I still have my castle and my knights and we play with them.
Tiger are great! You can make them roar so everybody knows they are big and strong! And we need lots and lots of popcorn.

Hi Claire. We need clowns too. I like it when they come out of the little car and run around. I saw a clown once who had a suitcase and he kept pulling stuff out and then pulled out his underwear!!!!!! it was funny.

I think we need some acrobats that tumble around and stand on each others' shoulders and jump in the air and one jumps down on a board and throws another one into the air. And they have sparkly suits on.

Evan

Ok so we have -
elephants
tigers and hoops of fire
a popcorn machine
clowns and a car
flashlights for everybody

Iain (I'm helping)

I bringing parotts and monkeys whot where little hast and ride unicycles on tight ropes
Peter

My friend chip says he can bring a snake whot twirls Batons.

Hi,

So now we have parrots and monkey that ride around. That will be fun to watch. And Chip will bring a snake.

Ok so we have -
elephants with riders
tigers and hoops of fire
a popcorn machine
clowns and a car
flashlights for everybody
parrots and monkeys with hats on unicycles
snakes

Iain (I'm helping)

We like trapeze people. So can we add people in pretty costumes who climb up those tiny ladders and stand on those tiny little platforms and swing out on a trapeze and then they let go and flip around and someone catches their hands?

We went to a place a couple of times where we got to do that! We learned different ways to hang from the trapeze while it was swinging and how to let go at the right time, and how to grab on to the other person's wrists. And there was a net so if we fell we didn't get hurt!

Claire (and others)