Mr. Strong

I made this video myself!!

Today me and a friend decided to go walk Meenah. There is this new bike path that leads to the center of town so me and her and Meenah went on that. It is two miles each way to the center but it is really not that bad. We walked and talked and at the center we went to Friendly's to get ice cream at the window. Sadly, Meenah couldn't have any because I got a chocolate and vanilla twist while my friend got a chocolate milk shake. I gave Meenah some of the cone, though. Do you know how hard it is to hold Meenah's leash and eat ice cream at the same time? Meenah doesn't pull or anything, it's just difficult because you can't use both hands. My hands got very sticky from the ice cream melting all over me. But it was fun and productive because now Meenah will spend the rest of the day conked out on the floor!

Yesterday at the barbecue I got hurt :-( We were playing hide and go seek and somebody wasn't coming so i wanted to go out and give him a hint. My plan was to open and slam the garage door (the one that leads outside) but when I opened it I saw him coming so SLAM and off I went. I tripped on the last step in the garage and fell down. The other people were inside a car and I didn't feel anything except a little stinging. I'm like," Ow! Guys I fell down" and picked myself. Then I walked over to my mom and told her and we both went inside. Only when we were safely in the upstairs bathroom did I feel real pain. I started sobbing and balling my eyes out. Turns out I had scratched up both my knees and my elbows! Darn, what a GREAT Memorial Day! :-P

Memorial Day

It is Memorial Day! Happy Memorial Day. What are you people going to do this Memorial Day? We are going to have a barbecue with some neighbors this Memorial Day! Happy Memorial Day (wait i already wished you Happy Memorial Day)!

Meenah Poem

Meenah is a silly dog,
one not very bright.
But she is also lovable
and she would never bite.

She chases her tail
and taps for ice.
She stomps on ants
and is afraid of mice.

But most of all,
(Now this is an interesting hound)
She spends her days
just laying around.

Now, Meenah is a cutie,
so adorable and such.
She is smart in her own way
and for that we love her very much.

Meenah Eating Ice

Ice Storm

Here is a video I made when the ice storm happened last December. It was really interesting because when I wiggled branches they jingled with all the ice on them.

Long Island

I am posting this from Long Island, New York. We went here to celabrate Rowan's (my little baby cousin) first birthday. He is now officially 1 years old. At Rowan's little party there were many balloons, which I helped with. I tied the string on them. The theme of the party was blocks so the pieces of cake that were already cut in squares looked like blocks. The had an out line and then a letter in the middle. There was a pinatta ( i don't know how to spell that) at the party and it was the kind where you pull strings and one of them opens the pinatta. Rowan didn't know how to pull the strings so we tied them to his wrist and when he pull away the string would come out. The last string that was left was obviously the one that opened it up and we tied it to his wrist and pulled him. Since it was the right string it was kind of hard to pull out and it hurt Rowan's little wrist. So me and my sisters all pulled it together and it came out. All the candy started showering out and Rowan was frightened. He cried. But me and my sisters have a Life Long Supply of Candy. There was also a Rowan trivia game. I got one of the questions right. The party was so much fun. And afterwards we let some of the balloons go and wrote notes on them. Probably by today somebody will have them.

This time, I actually picked Rowan up AND carried him around!! I couldn't really get him onto my hip like mothers do... Maybe because I don't have big hips. But Rowan is the cutest widdle thing ever made! If we wave our hands and say " bye bye" Rowan will flap his hands around! If we clap our hands, he'll clap! And he likes to clap. All in all, Rowan is a cute little kid.

Gym

In gym we are doing fitness testing. We have a little chart that we fill out every year in gym class. My mark how far we can jump, how many sit-ups we can do in a minute, how many curb jumps we can do in 30 seconds, how fast we can run 50 meters, how fast we can run 100 meters, and how fast we can run a mile. We do a couple tests a day. Yesterday we did sit-ups, curb jumps and long jumps. For sit-ups I did 24 in one minute. It's better than last year but not very good. For curb jump (which is jumping on and off the curb with both feet) I did 32 in 30 seconds. It's pretty hard actually to do curb jumps so... For the long jump I jumped 3 feet, 4 inches which is 3 inches better than last year :-P Sadly, today I got some aches and cramps in my stomach area so I think it is from those sit-ups because lots of other girls are complaining about it, too. I can't wait for the mile run- it's my favorite!!

Boston Marathon

Guess what? My dad just ran the Boston Marathon and he finished! We all went into Boston to see him finish. There were lots of people running it in wacky costumes. There was Wonder woman, Super Man, two guys in bathrobes and shower caps, and some military guys. They were running in their uniforms and boots and heavy backpack. After Daddy finished, he walked really slow to the train station. He said that his fingers felt numb. He also said that every part of his body hurts. Wow, I feel bad for him. Right now he is taking a soak in the bathtub. He qualified for next year's Boston Marathon!!