Monday, November 19, 2012

Basketball and things...

Did  you know I'm playing basketball again?  I am!  Tonight was my first practice.  I will practice again on next Wednesday after Thanksgiving and my games start soon.  There's a lot of people on my team - I think about 12.  

Are you ready for Turkey Day?  In my school, I'm learning about the Pilgrims and Indians.  The Indians teached the Pilgrims how to plant corn.  Do you know about that?  You put fish in the ground and then put the corn seeds in the ground too.  The fish would stink really bad, right?  That's not how my Papa plants corn.  Maybe he should try that - with stinky fish.  

I'm going to my Gram and Granddad's house for Thanksgiving.  Mana already started making pies and she made two Pumpkin Pies without me. :(   I'm going to help her make a chocolate cake, and pumpkin cookies and apple pie.  I'm going to help my Papa make pecan pie and cook some chickens and a big turkey in the big grease pot outside.  

You know my Papa has been in Texas and I've been helping my Mana do the animal stuff.  At night, we shut up the chickens.  In the morning we get eggs and feed the chickens and baby chicks - but they're not so much babies anymore - they are half grown.  We feed the rabbits food and give them hay.  I help my Mana fill up the chicken's water too.  She says I've been a big help.  I wake Mana in the morning and we go down to take care of the animals together.  Papa comes home tomorrow sometime, so we won't be doing it past tomorrow.  I told Mana to leave the eggs for Papa to clean too, but she said she needs to help Papa and clean the eggs.  Papa needs something to do when he gets home, right?

I'm doing my homework now.  All I got left is to read some pages with my Mom.  I'm taking a break first to eat tomato soup and a toasted cheese sandwich first before I read.

Oh, one more thing ~ I got 3 baby fish that's orange in my fish tank.  Now, I have a black molly, a spotted molly, a mickey mouse fish (acause you can see the mickey head and ears near it's tail), an algae eater, and 3 orange baby fish.  My two golden snails in the tank died.  

I love you!

Saturday, November 17, 2012

My first race!

Today was my first one mile race!  I runned really fast and it was at the airport!  Mana did the race with me acause my Papa flyed to Texas to see his brother and Kristin.  Me and Mana did some warmups and some stretching before we started running.  Other people did that too.   When you are a runner like me and Papa, you drink Gatorade and you eat some stuff called 'Gu'.  My gu was strawberry/banana - it's this stuff that you eat that gives you energy to run fast. 

 I stopped four different times to wait for Mana to catch up.  Then, I runned again.  Finally, close to the end, I didn't wait for Mana anymore and crossed the finish line by myself.  Jenny went too - she taked our pictures.  At this race, I got this cool wing pin - you see it?  It's what pilots have too!  I had a good time running.  I got a special race shirt too, but you can't really see it acause my bib number is in the way.  

After the race, Mary picked me up and guess what?!!  We went to a Gamecocks football game!  Mary buyed me this cool Gamecock sweatshirt and hat.  I got to watch the whole game - they won you know!  It was 24 to 7.  After the game, we went to Mary's house and watched Sponge Bob and then came home.  It was a really good day!

My Shoebox Gift...

Did you know you could get a shoebox and make it a present?  You can.  You take a shoe box, pick if you want it to be for a girl or boy, and put toys and stuff in the box.  It will go to another country, okay?  Mana said it's called 'Operation Christmas Child'.  So, we went to Michael's and I found this cool stuff for a boy.  I buyed him a gummy sucker, a wooden puzzle, some crayons and notebook, a cool yo-yo toy, some slipper socks, a squishy Christmas ball with a light that lights up when you throw it, some jacks with a different ball and some other stuff that I can't remember now.  It almost didn't fit in the box.  Then, my Mana helped me write a little card to go in the box to my new friend.  I think my box went to Africa.  Have you ever done that?  You can if you want to.

Sunday, November 11, 2012

My family visit...

Did you know my Grandpa, and Gaga, and Austyn and Brandy came to visit me?  Yep!  They did!  They came Friday night to my house and picked me up and taked me to the hotel.  Then, they comed with me to my game on Saturday and then everybody went to do the corn maze.  You see that picture?  There's this really big black slide that everybody can slide on.  My Gaga slided but not my Grandpa.  My Papa slided too but Mana didn't this time acause she was taking the pictures.  We did lots of fun things at that farm.  We bounced on these little horses (so did my Gaga and Mary!), we rided tricycles around, we raced little rubber ducks (mine was blue), climbed all over things and in things, swung on tube swings and played on the slide.  We got gatorade too!  I had a great time!


My last soccer game...

I had my last game on Saturday (yesterday).  My team didn't win but we don't win acause we play against some kids that are bigger acause they are 8 years old.   Me and my team have lots of fun though.  I have 6 other people on my team and we all go to the same school.  There's one girl on my team too.  We posed to have a party maybe next week at Cici's to celebrate.  I got my trophy at my last game too.  See?