Later on the trip

We saw the Statue of Liberty!!!! It looked so magestic! And awsome!

New York Trip...

This was at Yankie Stadium. It was the beggining of the game. Yankies against Angel. The Angels won 12 to 6.





At the American Girl Place, they have a fancy cafe. Your doll sits at the table in a little chair and gets a cute little cup!


My mom and Aunt Carol.



We had a fancy dessert after we ate.



Dahlia got Josafina...


Jemma got Mia...


And I got Felicity!

Rainy Again

Well it's rainy again! Last night it was pouring rain. Then it started to thunder. The thunder was loud and scary! When I saw some lightning, I was terrified and hid under my blankets. I had my two sisters in bed with me. It was very cramped. But we somehow managed to fall asleep. Now the ground is muddy again, and I can't go bike riding! I wish it didn't rain so much!

Meenah's Bath

I just gave Meenah a bath. I brought her into my parent's shower because it's smaller than the other shower. I didn't want too much room because then, Meenah would wander out of the water and refuse to get back in. So I got in and called to her. She was frightened and wouldn't come in so my mom set her in and I gave her plenty of treats. Then I used human shampoo and scrubbed her with it. I rinsed her (or I tryed to rinse her). But it wasn't very easy. The shampoo got all under her fur and I had to take about 10 minutes just getting it out. Then I shampooed and rinsed again. After that I put conditioner on her and moved her away from the water. As the conditioner soaked in, I shampooed and rinsed myself. Then I took the shower head and rinsed Meenah. I felt very bad for her. She was a good girl. She just sat there wondering when it was over. But she was soaked! And she looked like a mutt. All this time my mom and Jemma sat by and watched. Jemma felt left out that she couldn't wash Meenah so my mom made her the official Treat Giver. My mom talked soothingly to Meenah, to calm her down. After her last rinse, I let her out and my mom dried her off. Meenah shook herself a ton of times. The whole bathroom was wet. Then my mom blow dryed her. Meenah is such a good girl. She didn't struggle when I bathed her and she layed down and didn't run away when my mom blow dryed her. It was cute, but NOT EASY!!!

Summer Work

I feel realy guilty because over the summer i have been assigned work that i need to pass in by the firtst week of school. I have i math packet that reveiws everything we've learned in math. It's really hard. And i have to pick a book off the summer reading list and write two responses on it. Then i can pick another book of my choice and write two responses on it! Well i feal guily because it's almost the end of summer and i still have a lot to do. You know what? I think I'll just start right now! I'll do math reading and writing and get it over with.

Inkheart

I just finished an exellent story called Inkheart. It's a really good book, with 534 pages! It's about this little girl Meggie who is 12 years old. Her father loves reading but never reads aloud because when he does, things come out of the book he's reading. One night, Meggie's father got another crate of books and Meggie's mother wanted her husbund (Mo) to read aloud to her from Inkheart. When he did, an evil ruler named Capricorn and his evil companion, Basta, came out of the book. So did a person called Dustfinger. But when Mo reads things out of books, things must take their place. So Meggie's mother and the two cats sitting on her lap disappeared into the story. Meggie, who was only 3 at the time, asked where her mother was and Mo said she went on a vacation and never came back. Nine years later Capricorn captured Meggie and Mo. He wanted all the books of Inkheart to burn so that it was never possible to go back into his own world. Mo had the last copy that Capricorn wanted so Mo hid it at his aunt's house. She was a real book worm and had thousands of books at her house. Mo thought that Capricorn would never find it there but he did. He took Mo, Meggie and Elinor (the aunt) and locked them up at Capricorn's village. But they Dustfinger got the key from Basta and let them go. Then Capricorn hid the last Inkheart.

Meggie soon discovered that she had the gift that her father had. She was reading Peter Pan aloud to herself when all of a sudden Tinkerbell came out! When Capricorn found out that Meggie could read things out of books, he forgot about trying to get hold of Mo. He made Meggie read aloud from the Inkheart that he had saved to bring out an evil villian to kill the prisoners. But one of the prisoners was Meggies mother! Meggie couldn't read it and let that person kill her mother. So the author of Inkheart, Fenglio, changed the words of the book so that when Meggie read it, the Shadow (the villian) wouldn't do what Capricorn ordered it to do. So this is what the book said after he changed it:

" Capricorn had many men. And every one of them was feared by the surrounding towns and villages. They stank of cold smoke, they stank of sulfer and everything that reminds you of fire. Whenever one of them passed by people hid under the stairs with their children. They called them Firefingers and Bloodhounds-Capricorn's men had many names. They were feared by day, and by night the made their way into dreames and poisoned them. But there was one who was feared even more than Capricorn's villians. Folk called him the Shadow.

He came only when Capricorn called him. Sometimes he was red as fire, sometimes gray as the ash to which fire turns all it devours. He darted out of the earth as fast as flames lick their way up wood. His fingers and even his breath brought death. He rose before his master's feet, soundless, facless, scenting his way like the hound on the trail and waiting for his master to point to the victom. It was said that Capricorn had ordered one of the trolls who understand the whole art of fire and smoke to create the Shadow from the ashes of his victoms. No one was sure, for it was also said that Capricorn had ordered those who called the Shadow to life to be killed. All that everyone knew was that he was immortal, invulnerable, and pitiless, like his master.

Yet one night, a mild and starlit night, the Shadow heard not Capricorn's voice when it was called forth, but the voice of a girl, and when she called his name he remembered; he remembered all those from whose ashes we was made, all the pain and all the greif. He remembered , and he was determined to be avenged-avenged upon those whowere the cause of all this misfortune, whoses cruelty poisoned the whole world. Indeed he wanted revenge. So the Shadow went to his master and reached out to hime with ashen hands. And Capricorn fell down on his face, and his black heart stopped beating, and all those who hadd gone burning and murdering with him disappeared-blown away like ashes in the wind."

So Capricorn did die. And the book was really good. I think that you should read it!!!

Rainy Days

I'm angry that it's raining! I wanted to go biking! But it had to rain. It's been rainy a lot. Yesterday it was and today it is too. Well look on the bright side...Maybe the the weather in Washington will better! I'll be going there in August for a week. I'm so excited. (Is the weather ok there?). And New York is coming up soon to! Next week actually. I can't wait to go to the American Girl Place. I'm deffinatly getting Felisity. And maybe some books. Of course I'll get books! I love books! Oh, well it's still raining. And it just started thundering. I guess I can't go to the pool today!

Dahlia's New Talent!!

I brought Dahlia and Jemma to the park a couple weeks ago and Dahlia was interested in doing the monkey bars. Of course she wanted me to help her so I stood under her and held her legs. She got across like that, with me holding her. Then she refused my help and wanted to do it by herself. So I stood by in case she changed her mind and asked for help. Well today, Dahlia and Jemma stayed with Mamuma and Ajja. They all went to the park and when they got dropped off later , Dahlia was so happy and was saying,"Surenna! Guess what? I did they monkey bars all by myself and I got all the way across!!". So either I'm a good teacher, or she's a good learner;it's for the readers to decide!

Backyard Sleepover

My friend Rheanna had a sleepover with all our best friends! It was outside in a tent. It was really exciting staying in it. Her mom gave us some glow sticks so we cracked them all. The tent had loops hanging all over the place in it so we wrapped the glow sticks around that. After we got set up in the tent we went inside and watched Bend it Like Beckham. It's such an awsome movie. Then we went to the bathroom (we didn't want to have to walk inside in the dark in the middle of the night) and got settled in the tent. It was actually about 1:30 when i finally went to sleep. I usually konk out early around 9:00 but I think I had a little to much soda. Whoopsie! Well it was really fun any way!!!

Just some Summer poems