Episode 27 - Dancing

I love to dance!



Someone give me some clogs!! I'm going to be awesome! (Just like my Aunt Julia!) This song is my favorite to dance to, Cotton-Eyed Joe.
My mom is looking for a place for me to take dance lessons again in the fall. I hope she finds something!

Episode 26 - North Dakota isn't always cold?

Tonight I was talking to my mom in the car. She said that Cassee was going to be in preschool when I go to first grade. I told her that I was going to first grade in about 5 or 6 days.
She said it would be a lot more days than that. I just wasn't sure. Then she said we have to finish winter, have spring, the baby will come, go all through the summer, go on our trip to ND, and then I would be in first grade. I told her I wanted to go to ND during the summer because it is too hot and I'd have to take off all my clothes if I stayed here.
Mom then told me that it gets hot in ND in the summer too. I was SHOCKED!!
She asked what I thought ND was like and I told her that I thought it always had snow! She just laughed at me. I guess the only times I remember being in ND was when it was cold. I had no idea that Nana and Papa ever lived where it was warm.
Now I guess I can't go there to cool off in the summertime!

Episode 25 - My Second Lost Tooth

Only a few days ago I realized I had another loose tooth. I was so excited!!! I worked it real good with my tongue. Yesterday I told my mom and dad I thought it would come out soon, but they said it would take a few more days. Boy, were they wrong!!
Mom was surprised when I came home from school today and told her my tooth had come out at school. She was even more surprised when I told her I pulled it out!! With my fingers!! She said I was very brave to do that. I had tried in the morning, but it just didn't want to come out, the front was still stuck. Then after lunch I tried again and it came out that time.
I was pulling on it in the middle of class and it just popped out! All the other kids in my class came running over to help me find it. My friend Felicity was the one to find it. It really popped out far. Then I had to go to the nurses station cause I had blood running out on both sides of my mouth. Yuck! I don't remember blood with the first tooth I lost.
This is my two empty spaces. My other tooth hasn't started to come in at all yet.

It feels really funny and it's weird to talk now too.

Here's me and my tooth.

When you lose a tooth at school you get a really cool big tooth (with a string attached) to carry your tooth home so you won't get it lost. That would be awful to lose a tooth and the tooth fairy not come because you lost the tooth!! I really want money from the tooth fairy.
It's so awesome to lose a tooth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I told my mom I want 90 dollars this time! Or maybe just 50 dollars and a quarter, or maybe a dollar ninety ($1.90) I can't make up my mind yet. My mom just laughed at me and said maybe the last one.

Episode 24 - Chest

Over the Christmas break we spent a week in Utah. My dad's brother, Uncle Nate had gotten a new chess set for Christmas. While we were there he and Ddaddy taught me how to play. Now I want to play ALL THE TIME. Sometimes I forget what the real name of the game is and usually call it "chest". I do get a little upset (okay... a lot) when I don't win. Dad keeps saying I get that from my mother, whatever that means!
Here's me playing "chest" with my mom. I'm actually pretty good. I know how all the pieces move too.

See how hard I concentrate!

Episode 23 - We Live in a Desert, Right?

So, I don't get it. Everyone keeps saying we live in a desert. Why isn't it hot then?
A couple of weeks ago I had to walk from my car to the church building. Of course I didn't wear a coat because we live in a desert. Deserts are hot, right? I actually got mad at my mom when I got cold before I reached the door. What's going on around here?
Then the other day I wanted to wear my flip flops when I went to town with my mom to shop. She said I couldn't wear them! What, I said, I thought we lived in a desert! I was so mad.
I just don't understand what's going on around here. What kind of desert do I live in if a can't wear flip flops whenever I want?? I'm not sure if I like it here sometimes. Humf.

Episode 22 - My First Lost Tooth

Here's how I look without one of my teeth!

A few weeks ago I discovered a loose tooth on my bottom row of teeth. My mom said that it wasn't that loose and that I should just keep wiggling it with my tongue.
Well, I did... a lot.
Sometimes it was a little scary to eat and sometimes it hurt a little to brush my teeth, but my tooth did get looser and looser.
On Sunday morning I could kind of push my tooth half way over. Mom just kept saying to wiggle it. I could kind of feel the bottom of my tooth with my tongue.
Then the most amazing thing happened. Right in the middle of church, I was supposed to be listening to someone talk, my tooth just came out.
I stood up and yelled to mom, "My tooth came out!"
Everyone around us heard me too, I think, cause some people looked over and smiled or laughed.
I had to go rinse my mouth out cause there was a little blood in my mouth.
My mouth felt so funny after that, I kept sticking my tongue in the space to feel it. It was so cool.
I was so excited for the tooth fairy to come. I woke up at 2:00 in the morning and saw money in my cup. I had to go wake up my parents for them to see how much I got.
Dad said he only got a quarter when he was little. I must be way gooder than him because I got $1.42! I'm so rich now.
I'm so excited to lose another tooth. I keep wiggling all my teeth, but Mom says none are loose right now, darn.

Episode 21 - The Christmas Program

My music teacher, Mrs. Sewell, is awesome. She has taught us many songs and jokes. She has each class in the whole school perform a little informal production for their parents every year around Christmas. Mine was today.
My dad took the day off work (it was actually for a couple reasons), so at 12:25 my whole family walked into the music room to watch me perform. We did lots of Christmas songs and everyone told one or two jokes. ( I told two, cause I'm awesome... usually.)
My mom kind of (a little bit) ruined things because she forgot to bring extra batteries for the camera... and the ones in the camera were low, way low.
Here's me at the beginning of the show:


Here I am a little closer:

Now here is the kicker. Mom puts the camera on video mode to catch me telling my first joke. Now remember that the battery is really low. I got kind of nervous with everyone watching me so I took a while to say my joke and this is all my mom got:




It's a little hard to tell but this is what she was supposed to catch me saying:
Me: What do you call someone who is afraid of Santa Claus?
Everyone: What??
Me: CLAUS - trophobic!
I had a hard time saying claus-trophibic. It was pretty funny, but the camera was definitely dead by then.

I also told this joke at the end, I was the finnale (I'm not sure how to spell that).
Me: What kind of music to elves like?
Everyone: What kind??
Me: WRAP music! HAHAHA

I did really good on that one. I wasn't even shy that time. Too bad mom didn't save the battery juice for that one.

Here's one last shot of me, I was kind of playing around I guess. But aren't my reindeer antlers awesome. They had bells on them.