Yesterday I made a big accomplishment. I jumped to the high bar nine times in a row! That is really big because I usually lean over when I am on top of the low bar so much that I fall off. Well I did it. Finally! B-)


We had Mrs. A yesterday and She had us set up three big blue blocks, each with a mini tramp and a mat behind it. She told us to do three cast like movements off of the mini tramp with our hands on the block. We had to go up to a handstand. She also said that unless we went up to vertical we could not do a back tuck off of the mini tramp. I went up to vertical on my first turn. On my second turn I went over handstand. Marydonna and Gabby were supposed to hold the block down and to push me back if I go over. When I was over handstand and at the point when they should push me back, they screamed and performed duck and cover. Now going over is all ready pretty scary and uncomfortable but when girls are screaming it is terrifying. This happened again and then Marydonna and Gabby brought over the mushroom that the boys use to practice pommel horse and they stood on it so they could be closer to me. Well it happened again and they did duck and cover. THAT HURT. Then Marydonna asked me why I always went up to vertical. Gabby asked me why I go so hard. Oh well.

Dark Day

Dark, cloudy and all together miserable. It was the type of day that makes you wake up, snuggle up and go back to sleep. Well, that's what one would LIKE to do, but the Leibig kids had school to do. It went on like most sunny days would for Theresa. She got school done quickly. It was not rainy YET so she played with her friends, Kimberly and Eliana. Eliana told her it would there might be a tornado. At the dinner table when Dad commented on the clouds Theresa said there might be a tornado tonight. Joey and Julie freaked out and decided to sleep in the basement. Theresa decided to sleep in her room and slept well. The younger children slept in. They decided to sleep in the basement until Theresa joined them. They never slept in their beds again.

I am going to decorate my cubbie at gymnastics. I am going to put some card stock on the three sides of my cubbie. I have one that is like the bottom of a pool. It will go on the back. I have a piece that is purple and one that is green to go on the sides. I also have a furry piece of fabric that will be used as a rug. I will use a blue piece of card stock for the top. I also have a awesome piece of fabric that will be used as curtains for the outside of the cubbie. I will get some pictures of it once it is done.


I went to sell raffle tickets with Joey. He is in the Land Of Lakes Choir Boys (aka. the LOLCB)* They are selling raffle tickets for the spring concert. They are raffling

1. One thousand dollars.
2. Five hundred dollars.
3. A Sony game station three.
   

They are five dollars each. We went door to door selling raffle tickets. It worked surprizingly well. The LOLCB has an impressive way to get boys to sell raffle tickets, they give each boy one dollar for every house you sell to.


*Personally, I think they need to get a LOLCG! The Land Of Lakes Choir Girls.

I had a pretty standard day at gymnastics yesterday.
When I came in the other girls were standing by the window. I do not know why. Then we ran around and jumped on the trampoline and tumble track. My new thing during "free time" is to stand on the vault and do things off of it. I do things like lean back and just let myself fall, front flips, and cart wheels. I am still not couragous enough to do a back flip of the vault. Any way after we stretched we did floor. I did all the skills in the floor routine. then we did vault. I did some god ones and made some improvements. Then I did beam and made five rountines. I got to skip the back walkover and the dismount. Then Gergely gave us free time and I did more vaults. The vault is really a wonderful event. It's quick so when you only have two minutes of free time it is the even to choose. Floor is ok but it takes some time to warm up for diffucult skills. Beam also takes some time to warm up for. It takes to long to put grips on for bar. On vault warming up is unnecessary if you have done it before that same day. So I did some vault and Kristina joined me.

Joey had a friend over today. Dad gave me permission to play with my friend Eliana. We played around a bit out side and we practiced a game of ours, swinging and jumping off. The goal is to go as far as possible. We make a mark for our landings in the sand. Every once and a while we jump off and try to be as graceful as possible.

Today I did something really funny. Dad gave me a math problem, he wanted me to convert 1/3 x + 3/4 y = 3/8 into slope intercept form. Once I got it I put my head to the table. A sign that I was having trouble. It was really funny. I didn't know I had it. I thought you had to get rid of the number in front of X.

I found out that I have a genetic defect. Joey, Julie and I have a short connection from the roof of our mouths to our tongues. That's why Julie has a lateral lisp and I had one. Joey's is the shortest of all but he seemed to manage.

I started to take notes during our Geology lesson. We were studying volcanoes here is what I wrote;

Hawaiian volcanoes don't explode. Except when water hits the magma chamber and you know because it will steam up.

Stromboli volcanoes erupt frequently but with mild or no explosion. Stromboli (the volcano) erupts every twenty minutes. Basaltic lava and andesitic lava mix (in this type of volcano).

Volcanian volcanoes explode violently and every 100 years, approximately.

Pelean volcanoes are (the most) violent. Mt. Pele erupted and covered the whole town of St. Pierre. The whole chamber comes up and flows down (for miles, usually).

In plinean volcanoes it comes up and is pushed 4000 feet in the air and then it goes down like a pelean volcano.

A crater is the hole at the top of a volcano.
If the magma chamber is low in magma the volcano collapses and a hole is formed and that is a caldara.

A hot spring is made of the presence of lava under ground water but some so called hot springs don't have anything to do with lava.

This was slightly altered so you can better understand it. I will explain more things about it.

For the first six paragraphs I was learning about the different types of volcanoes. Hawaiian volcanoes are named after the volcanoes on the big island of Hawaii. If the magma hits the ocean it is called pillow lava. Stromboli volcanoes are not very dangerous and they erupt frequently and with mild or no explosion. Stromboli the volcano has a town built around it and if you aren't insane it will not hurt you. The Volcanian volcanoes explode violently and are the types you usually hear about on the news. Pelean volcanoes are rare but the most violent. So are Plinean volcanoes. They spew lava everywhere. Craters are just what they sound like. Crater lake is a caldara and it was filled with water. a little mound is in the middle of it and it was like a little bit of lava trying to come back. It formed a shape but it doesn't errupt.

Wii are fit

Wii fit has made it's way into the Leibig school regimen. Wii fit has exercises and they are divided into five groups, Yoga, strength, Aerobics, Balance games and Favorites. Yoga is just a bunch of different yoga poses. You stand on the special wii fit board that senses your movements. You get scored higher for less movement. Strength is just push ups, v-ups etc. you do them on the wii fit board so it can make sure your doing it. I always get one hundred because I do my whole workout. You can challenge your trainer to push-up contests but he always quits at ten. He is weak. I am strong. Aerobics is running but it throws in a few odballs here and there like boxing, marching, hula hooping and some others that I forgot. Balance games are just things to test your balance, like tightrope. Favorites are just the ones that you do the most. I do long distance running on the wii. Then I do streching on my one. I do squat jumps and wall sit and then I get back to the wii. I do yoga streches for my balance beam. I do one round of deep breathing to start out. I do two rounds of tree and knee hold. I do one round of squat or something I forget what its called. I do two rounds of the dance pose. and then some ab things in strength. Then I do a balance game.

Thee blog of the day

The story chapter of the post.

Chapter Four

After the visit to the hospital Lily and her grandma went home and the next day they woke up early and went back to the hospital. Lily’s Mom could now leave the hospital.

Lily rode home in Mommy’s car. The Miller’s owned two cars. They had two sedans; a blue one and a white one. They called the white car Daddy’s car because it was the one that Timothy used to get to the office. Mommy’s car was the blue one and it was used for errands and for doctor’s appointments and anything else Emily, Lily and now Andrew, did while Timothy was at the office.

Lily asked her parents. “Mommy what are we going to do when we get home.

“Grandma will help us decorate for the family party.” Timothy replied

“Weren’t we supposed to decorate before you got home?” Lily asked

“When you were born grandma did some decorating before we got home but we did streamers and things as a family.” Emily said.

“We will put up the ‘It’s a Boy’ sign and blue streamers and do our traditions when we get home.” Timothy added. “Why look. We’re there!” Emily got out of the car while her husband got Andrew out and handed him to her. Timothy then moved on to getting Lily out of the car. Lily’s grandmother was at home already and Lily ran around into the back yard and let herself in her house. Emily swaddled Andrew in a blue blanket and covered his face in her shoulder. Emily, Timothy and Andrew walked to the front door and rang the doorbell. Lily and her grandmother answered it and led them, silently, into the living room.

Emily suddenly said. “It’s a Boy! It’s a beautiful baby boy!” Everyone leaned over and looked at the baby.

Lily’s grandmother asked Emily. “What is his name, weight and length?”

Emily replied. “Andrew Timothy Miller, Six pounds, five ounces and he is eighteen inches long.” Lily’s grandmother wrote the information on a piece of paper. Lily then ran out of the room and came back with a morning glory. She handed it to her mother and Emily smiled. Emily walked into Andrew’s room with Timothy, their eyes down. Emily placed the morning glory into the vase. She and her husband looked up and smiled.

Timothy exclaimed. “What a marvelous room!”

Emily said gracefully. “I would like to thank all the children and women who so graciously helped with this baby’s room.” She continued. “Would the oldest woman of the Walter’s generation please step forward and explain to the children who helped, the origin of our tradition.”

Lily’s grandmother stepped forward and said. “Children gather round. I married Mr. Charlie Winters (of whom died ten years ago) and I took on the name Mrs. Jane Mary Walters Winters. My daughter, Emily Mary Winters, who married Mr. Timothy Miller, took on the name Mrs. Emily Miller. Yesterday, she gave birth to Andrew Timothy Miller. You have helped build his room and deserve to know the history of our traditions. Long ago, there were no hospitals for babies to be born. Instead there were midwives, who birthed the babies at the mother’s house. The babies were born in a special room of the house and none were allowed in the room while the baby was being born except, lest the midwives’ secrets be revealed. After the baby was born the father was let in. He helped the midwife and cut the cord attaching the baby to his mother. After the baby was cleaned and the mother was cleaned and her hair combed and she was in a new garment they would knock on the door. Birthing babies is a very messy business and sometimes it took a very long time before the mother and child were ready. Anyway, they knocked on the door and the grandmother of the child would open the door. The baby would be swaddled like Andrew was, with his face in his mother’s shoulder. The midwife, mother, father and infant would be led into the middle of the room in silence. The midwife would shout ‘The child is born’ and then she would leave. After the midwife leaves the mother would shout ‘It’s a boy’ or ‘It’s a girl’. Everyone would lean over and look at the baby. The Grandmother of the child would ask the weight, length and name of the baby. The time was unimportant because none would ever know the time the baby was born and only the midwife would know. This was another thing that Walter’s consider information only the midwife would know, it was another thing to keep midwifes sacred and important to the family. Anyhow, the grandmother of the infant (On the Walter side) would write this information down on piece of paper tucked away in the first page of Mathew. The page would list all the names of people in the family (on the Walter side, if the other family side had a peace of paper like it, their family tree would go next to the Walter family tree). Once the information was written in the family tree the oldest sibling would go pick a flower to give to her mother. She or he would pick blue for a boy and pink for a girl. If the infant had no siblings (like you) the father would pick the flower. The rule was that the flower must be picked by a member of the infant’s immediate family. After the flower was handed to the mother, she and her husband would walk to the infants room with their eyes down and the mother would place the flower in the vase and she would look up. Before the baby was born the children and women of the family would build the room for the baby. The mother and the father of the infant could not see the room. The women and children could not use anything that belonged to the mother and father. After the mother and father have seen the room the mother would call the oldest woman in the Walters generation to explain our tradition. After this is done the family would go and plant an Easter lily for the baby. There are no special rules for planting the Easter lily except that it must be planted next to the plant that the infant’s flower was picked. The plant that the infant’s flower was picked from is the infant’s plant. Once the Easter lily has bloomed the child is baptized and the lily is placed in the same vase as the flower the infant got on his birthday. Another blue or pink flower from the same plant is added every month until the baby is a year old. When the baby is six months old the older sibling is told how her or his birth went out. If a child doesn’t have any siblings before his six birthday he or she is told how his or her birth went out. That is our tradition. Our tradition is modified to suit the mother and child. My mother’s good friend was a nurse and she helped birth me at my father’s house. She couldn’t leave my mother and I until the next day so she didn’t leave but she went back into the birthing room. She was very good about our traditions and obeyed them all. My room was even made by my two elder sisters and my aunt. My mother was given a pink tulip that was growing in our garden. My second eldest sister was so dramatic that she brought a pink rose with swollen hands but my grandmother, strict as she was, sent her back to pick a tulip.”

Emily said. “Thank you Mother. Lily that Easter lily in your room is your baptism lily. Now let’s go plant Andrew’s Easter lily.”

The little family walked out side to the yard.

Emily asked Lily. “Lily, where did you pick Andrew’s morning glory?”

“By the bunch right next to the slide.” Lily replied.

“Than we shall plant the lily next to the morning glories.” Emily announced.

Timothy spoke up. “Darling you and the baby should sit and watch while we dig in the dirt and plant the seed.”

“Alright, I guess the baby shouldn’t get dirty but I didn’t get to plant Lily’s seed either. Honey can’t I help plant the seed.”

“(Sigh) Are you up to it?”

“Of course.”

“Alright. But who will hold the baby?”

“Mother can.”

Mrs. Winters spoke up against her daughter’s idea. “I think I should be able to help, too!”

“Well who will hold the baby? Lily’s only four and she would want to help plant the seed too.” Said Emily. Soon this argument increased in volume and everyone kept on pointing fingers at each other and telling them to hold the baby.

Lily quiet and observing said softly. “Why can’t we take turns?”

Timothy, in the midst of the argument said. “We have been fighting like children while the child has said something very wise.”

“What did she say?” Emily asked

“Why can’t we take turns.” Lily repeated.

“Ugh, you’ve raised Lily this far and yet you don’t realize that the baby would get dirty when we hold him.”

“Where gardening gloves.” Emily said.

Soon they were planting the Easter lily. Emily was sitting near the group of gardeners holding Andrew. Lily noted that Andrew slept a lot, now was one of the few times when he was awake. Emily was showing him the seeds.

Emily whispered to Andrew. “These are your lily’s seeds. When these grow into flowers you will be baptized and join the Christian church. You will have a happy life here. I think I’ve done a pretty good job with your big sister. Look at her, all happy and smiling. Look at the wonderland your father and I have built for you. Yes you will be very happy.”

Timothy said to his wife. “Honey we’re done with the hole. Let me hold the angel while you can plant his seeds.”

“Alright.” Emily replied. She passed Andrew to her husband and then walked over and put the seeds into the hole. The group started to bury the lily seeds in the ground.

Emily said. “I have a very good idea. Why not we start a new tradition and place a wooden cross into the ground - just a small one that will mark the spot where the lilies are planted.”

Mrs. Winters frowned at this idea but Mr. Miller loved it.

“I think that’s a great idea!” Timothy exclaimed. “But, where will we get wood for it?”

“Don’t you have some wood in the garage?” Emily asked.

“Hmm” Said Timothy, pondering the idea. “I think that will work.”

“Wonderful, when should we make it?”

“If I may step in, I would suggest that Timothy would make the cross while the rest of us bake a cake”. Mrs. Winters said. Andrew started to cry.

“That’s a good idea but you and Lily will have to bake the cake yourselves. I think that Andrew’s hungry.”

I really enjoyed writing this chapter and making up all the traditions. Joey and Julie have asked me if I'm going to get the book published:-) I told them that I would try. If I can't I will go to the public library and see if I can get them to let me start a club where kids would bring in their stories and their would be a 'by kids' section and people could read our stories.

Today I am going to do something amazing. Joey has piano lessons and we have to leave at three thirty to get him there. He always arrives early and has to wait for the other kids classes to be done. The reason he has to come early is so that we have time to drop me off at gymnastics. five to ten minutes after we leave joey discovers he left his books at home. We have to drive all the way back to our house to get Joeys books and I'm always ten or five minutes late for class. Joey is distracted by his DSI (which he brings for amusement while he waits for his piano lesson). So today I am going to remind him to bring his books. I have written this so I will remember to remind him.

with love to my loving readers,

Theresa

Hello followers. I am in a good mood, today. I am getting everything done so that I can spend the rest of the day writing my story. Dad said that if I get really into my story the only other things I would have to do is math, biology, spanish and flute. He said this a while ago and I have twelve pages in less than a month. Here is chapter three of my story.

Chapter Three

Lily’s grandmother answered the phone. It was Mr. and Mrs. Miller! The baby had been born successfully! Emily was fine and the baby was healthy. He was a beautiful baby boy! Timothy told all this to his mother in law over the phone, he wanted Lily to come to the hospital immediately!

Her grandmother, a smile on her face, rushed Lily into the car. Lily was deeply troubled. She saw no reason for the rush. Did something bad happen? After they were in the car, Lily’s grandmother regained her composure and said. “Honey the baby is here! He’s a baby boy! He and your mother are fine!”

“Yay! When will we see him?” Said Lily, too worried and excited to talk like a toddler. Fortunately, her grandmother was to excited to notice.

“Hmm, Now all the trouble begins. I’m excited and worried. Will the baby take my place? What are babies like? Will he be mean to me?” Lily immediately realized that the last question was silly, remembering the size of the baby’s socks. “Okay, he probably won’t beat me up. What do babies do anyway?”

“Lily we’re there! We’re at the hospital!”

“Once again, time flies when you think” Thought Lily as she climbed out of her grandmother’s car.

Once they walked into the hospital Lily’s grandmother checked in. The nurse gave Lily a pink sticker that said “I am a big sister”. Lily and her grandmother rode the elevator up to the twentieth floor.

They went into room forty-four. Room forty four was a white room with a blue loveseat and a white table, along the wall there was a blue couch. On the wall there were pictures of blue jay. Lily’s eye’s rested on her mother lying in a bed with blue covers storks on it. Lily immediately forgot about the baby and ran towards her mother and climbed into the bed. She was amazed when she saw a small pink baby cuddling with her mom. “What! This is my little brother! He’s so pink! And he’s so small. In a way he’s cute but he’s in my spot.”

“ Happy birthday! Here’s your little brother. Do you like him” Emily whispered.

“He’s so small” Replied Lily.

Emily laughed and said. “Yes. He is very small. His name is Andrew.” Timothy, sitting on the edge of his wife said. “Happy birthday, Lily! We have a present for you.” Two nurses came in with a little plastic crib with a baby doll in it. They put it next to another plastic crib by Emily’s bedside.

“This is the bed hospital’s have for baby’s. They are light and easy to move around so if they need to move the baby from one place to the other it’s easy. We decided to give you your own baby to take care of.” Timothy said. Lily picked up the baby doll and said. “Thank you, Mommy and Daddy.”

“There’s another present.” Emily said. “Look under the crib and there’s a little platform and there’s another present.”

Lily got off of the bed and found the present right where here mother said it was. She unwrapped it. It was a book titled “Fun With Baby”, “Green Eggs and Ham” “The Vet” and “One to Ten Pop-up Surprises”.

Emily said. “Even though you are four your father and I are going to teach you how to read. You will love reading, Lily! You can read books to Andrew. We are also going to sign you up for preschool. You will go to preschool twice a week.”

“Mommy, I can read! Watch”. Lily read “The Vet” to her little brother. “Wow, this big sister thing is kind of fun. Boy, am I doing a great job at this reading! Mom and Dad are smiling. They are so proud at me.” Lily finished the book but you got some and looked up. Her Dad said. “Good job Lily!”

Lily asked. “I keep on reading the word ‘teh’ T-H-E what does that mean?”

“You were reading the word ‘The’.” Lily was confused. She had followed all the rules and had said all of the words sounds. Her father continued. “The English language is tricky and there are complications to the letter’s sounds. Let me show you. This word is zoo. You said zah. Two O’s together make the sound ooh. We are very impressed that you can read simple words. However, there are hard words like zoo and that’s what we will teach you. Soon you will be able to read pneumonia.” Lily blushed, she realized that she had messed up. She hadn’t realized how tricky words were.

“The book, one to ten book doesn’t have any words. Emily said opening the book. “You see the numbers? You pull them open and they show a colorful animal.” Lily opened up number one. A frog was revealed!

“Mommy look! It isn’t a picture on flat paper. It pops out and you can touch it!”

“Yes honey, these types of books are called pop-up books.”

“Cool! Thank you Mommy and Daddy!” Lily had relaxed now. “The baby isn’t taking my place. I think Mom and Dad want me to play with the baby. I wish I could hold him.” As though she was reading her thoughts, Emily asked her daughter. “Would you like to hold him?”

“Yes please!” Lily exclaimed.

“Sit down on the couch Lily and hold him like this.” Timothy instructed, while holding his son. He then passed Andrew to Lily. Lily cradled her little brother and thought. “He’s so small and adorable! I wonder why he’s all curled up. He’s warm too.” Then she whispered to Andrew. “We are going to be best friends.” And she was right.

I am having trouble keeping up with blogging entire chapters. Chapter four is one of the longer ones . I had fun writing it though. On some days I can throw down entire chapters but on others I am really slow to write. I don't really think ahead for the story either. It feels like I am reading the book myself. I don't even have to disagree with what the author is writing either! My freind Abbie is the opposite in writing stories. I relax and just write, while she looks up things for her stories and plans ahead. She also has a lot of adventure in her story too. She was the one who inspired me to write stories. Abbie already has a critic! Her brother, Louis, keeps on telling her "more action, more action!". While talking on the phone to her last night, I told her that. "Brothers can be very helpful or they can lead you to misery. You should just write what you want to write."

I am giving my birthday party some thought. I want to have a lot of people to the day party and a small selected group of friends to a sleepover party. I was thinking of themes and most of the guest are the "Ladies of the gym" as I call them but My freind Eliana is not so athletic and I don't want her to feel left out. Suggestions are welcomed.

On Wednesday I said I would blog about the story I wrote, my gymnastics meet, cross country skiing and Dad's birthday. I only wrote about the first two.

My story, Chapter two (There are five chapters so far).

Chapter two
They soon got to work. Lily put a white tablecloth on the table. She then decorated the table with flowers, while her grandmother cleaned the kitchen. Lily picked a blue bonnet and her grandmother put it into a vase. Lily then got five roses and arranged them in a circle around the blue bonnet. Lily also picked quite a few morning glories and put them around the edge of the table and got a few leafs and put one leaf in between each morning glory. Emily had taught her daughter that simple was beautiful, with this knowledge Lily stopped her decorating there. Lily’s grandmother was immediately satisfied and impressed with Lily’s work. Although, she was worried Emily wouldn’t like all the flowers on the table.
“Oh dear, Lily there are to many flowers on this table. Can you take some off?”
“Mommy would wike dem.” Lily replied
Lily’s Grandma thought about her daughter, Emily, for a second then said. “Oh what was I thinking, you can keep them on the table, I suppose.”
Soon they were both satisfied with their work in the kitchen and moved on to the nursery. Lily had never been into the nursery before. Her father told her that they were painting and they didn’t want her to get hurt or get in the way. Her mother told her the room was a surprise. Lily was greatly disappointed at both their warnings and excuses. The room was neat and tidy with animal bedding in something that seemed to be a cage. Lily was very educated in literature but it took her a minute to figure out that the baby would sleep in there. She was surprised that looked like it was a cage. She tugged on her grandma’s sleeve and said. “Gramma, why will duh baby sweep in a cage.”
Her grandmother laughed at this and said. “Lily, that’s not a cage. It’s a crib. It has high bars like a cage, not to keep the baby in, but to make sure he doesn’t fall out. Do you understand?” Lily nodded. After she had figured this out she noticed the room looked quite plain. Lily thought that it would be really complicated and at first it seemed like it. The room was painted green and had a little white table and a white rocking chair. Lily also noted that there was a bookshelf next to a whole box of books. Her parents even put in a bean bag!
“Lily, there is a box of things for the baby in the closet and we need to get them out.” Her grandmother instructed. Lily helped her grandmother with many difficult jobs. First they had to assemble a dresser from the parts her parents ordered. This was probably the most difficult job that Lily and her grandmother did that day. Lily’s grandmother sat on the floor and worked on putting the dresser together while Lily fetched screws and other things for her grandmother. The dresser was made of maple wood and was almost as big as her mother and father’s dressers.
“Why is this dresser so huge? The baby’s socks are as small as my big toe. This dresser is as big as mine and Mommy and Daddy’s. My dresser is even too big for me! What about the baby, to him this dresser will be enormous. Mommy said he was small enough for me to hold!” Thought Lily as she held a box of screws for her grandmother. “Ow! My arms hurt, how long will I have to hold this box of screws!” She glanced at the dresser and saw that it was almost finished. “Wow! It’s almost done! How is it that time flies when you’re thinking?
“Lily! Stop your day dreaming immediately! Her grandmother said sharply. Lily shuttered. “Uh oh she’s getting tired. I wonder how much longer she can hold this act up?” Lily’s grandmother was usually strict and said many outbursts like that all the time. She acted less strict on Lily’s birthday. Emily had begged her mother to be easy on Lily. Lily’s grandmother realized what she had said was definitely not easy. She covered up by saying. “I mean the dresser is done. Can you fold the clothes in this box and put them in the dresser?”
“Ok!” said Lily happily, though she was secretly annoyed with her grandmother’s sudden outburst and annoyed that her grandmother thought that she would fall for the act. “How many of these white wensies does the baby need! This is ridiculous!” Lily thought.
Soon all the clothes were folded and neatly put away and Lily’s grandmother got out a little mat with animals on it. Lily also noted that there were things to squeeze and rattles attached to it. Lily squeezed something that looked like a small whoopee cushion. It made a small, squeaking sound.
“Wat is it Gramma?” asked Lily, pointing to the mat.
“It’s called a play-mat and you lie the baby on the mat and he will play with the toys on the play-mat.” Her grandma answered.
“Is duh baby going to be a boy or girl?”
“ I don’t know sweetheart. We’ll just wait and see. Now, why don’t you go and pick a flower and put it in this vase.” Lily’s grandma said, pointing to a little glass vase. “Normally if it’s a boy you would pick a morning glory because it is blue. If it is a girl you should pick a pink rose. When a baby boy is born you decorate the house with blue and if it’s a girl its pink. You’re mother could have found out if it’s a girl or boy but she wanted it to be a surprise. When she comes home you will give her a pink rose or a blue morning glory. She will call us when the baby is born. You pick a morning glory now before they close.” Her grandmother told Lily. Lily nodded and obediently picked a morning glory.
They had no more work to do so Lily’s grandma made herself and her granddaughter some lunch. Then they went outside to the backyard. Lily played, ran, climbed the privacy fence and explored. Her grandmother ∫rought a chair out and worked on her shirt. Lily now knew the shirt was for the baby.
“Grandma is very bossy. I climb and I better get down before I fall. I jump I should stop before I break something. I explore the flower garden and I need to get out of there before I ruin Mommy’s flower garden. I run and I should stop before I trip and get covered in grass stains.” Thought Lily. Soon Lily settled with playing on the swings. Lily began to get worried. “It’s almost four-o-clock! How long have Mommy and Daddy been gone?” Lily stopped swinging and asked. “When did Mommy and Daddy weave?”
“In the middle of the night while you were sleeping.” Her
grandmother replied. Right then they heard the phone ringing.


After the big new years eve party at out house,My good friend Mara and I convinced our parents to let me come over to her house for a sleep-over. We stayed up late and woke up around seven forty-five or so. We played together 'till three or four and then we went with my Mom to cross country ski. Mara's dad works at a ski store and she takes cross country ski lessons. I was slowing Mara and my mom down because I learned about five minutes before we went. I soon got tired and I fell a few times but I'm sure I'll do better next time. Mom also got us lost and gave us an extra mile or so. There was also a giant hill that I ended up just taking of the skis and walked up. Then I put them back on.

For Dad's birthday I made him a card from our school paper with paper snowflakes from our school paper. In the middle of a snowflake I put I red six sided die and on the side of it I put four ten sided dice, each with one of the kids birthstones color. I cooked some of my house wide famous french toast and some oatmeal. Then Joey, Julie and I gave him a concert. We had lunch and then we played a push your luck game called adventurers. Then I went to gymnastics and came back to wrap presents. When Joey came home from his gymnastics class we did presents and had cake.

Good morning, followers (of my blog)!

I had a decent sleep last night and I am ready to start the day! We are going to mix baking soda with vinegar and see what gas it makes. Then we are going to put a match under it to see what gas it made. if the flame doesn't go out in two seconds that means it's oxygen and if it goes out immediately it means it's carbon dioxide. if the flame grows instantly that means it's hydrogen.

Today I did an attempt to shovel the driveway. I got this idea from gymnastics. We are having our first out-of-state meet. Some of the girls can't go because of financial problems. The other girls and I were thinking we could shovel driveways to get some money to help. The problem is very simple, I am too small and do not have the strength. So I left our drive way to Dad and am not doing the shoveling fundraiser. I might end up selling hot chocolate during rush hour and the bus hour (the bus hour is what I call the time were the public schoolers get home from school).

It has snowed about a foot here with a draft.






Your's truly,
Theresa Leibig

So much for the blogging every day thing. I kept it going for a while ago and I'll see if I can beet my record

I was an alter server today. We went to the 5:00 mass today because I have a meet tomorrow. We walked in and there were only two alter servers so I asked Father if he could use another one. I got dressed up in the robes and took my candle. New alter servers (like me) are candle bearers and the most experienced is a cross bearer. I basically did what they told me to do in the classes and the cross bearer would remind me about things. I like alter serving.



I have a meet tomorrow. It is my last chance to make it to state:( (I discovered the crocodile or dinosaur. :V ) I think Gergely's specialty is to strike fear into the heart of gymnast with a meet. He asked me if I thought I would make it to state. I told him that I had only missed by .125 so it shouldn't be to differcult but he said that it would be differcult because the judges might be judging harder. He also told me that he has seen arms and necks broken by how I jump to the high bar. I personally am just annoyed.

I am thankful for alter serving tonight.

The week's been pretty normal. It's a gym day so happiness is mine! It's a level five and six day but this time I've got a secure title in the level six. I don't know if I have mentioned this before but there are two groups in the class. One group is the uncompetitive group and the other is the competitive group.
Some girls get into level five when their six that but some of us like me take longer. The girls that get into level five early usually take two years our so in level five but sometimes if their prepared, like Mara (Mara is one of my friends she's in level six but she's only in third grade) they get through fast. I was out of level five in a year and I can do some of the differcult level six stuff (like a back flip off of bars).

You can tell if you get put in the uncompetitive group because you're with kids that are up to chest high. Then you can tell because you spend twenty turns on dive rolls. I get put into because they have most all the level sixs in there first then all the competitive level fives then whoever is the best level five B or if they want to give someone experience. When I was in level five B there were other level fives who were looking for the spot. Now, in level six my spot is secure.

I asked Dad how cool B) he thought everthing looked interesting except for vault. I can't disagree with him. He said he knew it was probably very differcult but it didn't look like it. Our vault is very plain. It is just a front handspring, no twists no flips (unless you mess up (a lot)). Level six has the same thing. In level seven you can do either a front handspring or a half on (a round-off over the vault). My question is if you can combine the two. If not I am going straight to half-ons.

Gymnastics success! Yesterday I made SIX good bar routines in TWENTY minutes. Gergely gave us nine minutes to warm up the bar routines. I remembered to wair my contacts so it was a good deal easier. I was on the bar set that I can jump to the high bar on and everyone in my group is pretty serious about competing (there were 4 of us), espcicially because we've got a meet on Sunday. Since Gergely said nine minutes we didn't really care about the order, the idea was 'just go'. We didn't talk much and we kept an eye on the person in front of us. if you got caught up in a conversation and you missed your turn chances are someone else would go. If you missed your turn you'd ask another girl if you could go, we're close so we'd let each other go if they missed their turn. I went first because I was already chalked up. Right after my front half I realized it was good so I could move on to back half next turn. When it was my turn tried a jump but missed. Next turn I got it. I did a few more jumps and then it was time for the routines. Gergely put a clipboard, with all our names on it, on a desk. He wanted us to tally mark each routine we do connected. Here we got into a strict order. The attitude of 'just go' remained but if you were up next you were reminded. The order was; Mara, Mackenzie, Brynn and Theresa. My first routine was not awesome. I stopped before the squat on and before the back-hip-circle. One of my problems was that people were walking under the bar coming back from the clipboard. So we agreed to walk around the bars. My next one was good I never stopped although my legs were bent jumping to the bar and next turn I made another. Then, on my third turn I had my legs so bent on the jump I fell. I fell on the next one too. I made the next one and I was back on track. The next turn I annoyed the girls on the other set of bars. At Olympic there are two pairs of uneven bars across from each other. We land on the same mat. If everyone did the level five dismount it would be Ok (the level five dismount is just swinging and touching the other side of the bar) but the level sixs do back flips of the bar so we take turns. I was doing a routine at the same time as Katie and I don't look at the other pair of bars so I went and she got mad at me. The rest of it went smoothly until the end. Then I couldn't jump on one turn and then I couldn't do a front hip circle. All the girls then went to look at the clipboard to see how everyone else did and I saw my chance to get one more routine in without any interuptions.

Then I got frustrated at Gergely because he made us vault and what I wanted to do was sleep.

Hello! I have been enjoying the meet-free month. My next meet is in two weeks. Yesterday was conditioning day at gymnastics. I think it was the second conditioning day that I didn't cry. Conditioning day is three and a half hours of conditioning. I find it interesting that hang time is the second most tear-providing exercise and I find it easy. Hang time is just dangling on the uneven bars. It hurts because your hands are toughening and it hurts the forearms but it doesn't hurt me. The first most tear-providing exercise is hanging under the beam. The first time I did it I cried but I didn't drop. One of my reasons is that if you do you start over the timer for the whole group. I also wasn't treated well by some of the girls at the beginning of my time at olympic. It doesn't take an idiot to tell that more conditioning doesn't help that.

Mom got an emergency business meeting in LAS VEGAS. In some of her free time she did some gambling with fake money. She won three hundred dollars in fake money. She left on Sunday and will come back on Wednesday

Thomas's diaper is not nice.

One of the girls at gymnastics, Nadia, has a brother who is on Joey's soccer team. She is actually his younger sister. We live so close together that this might result in a lot of carpooling. The problem is that Nadia and I are not on the friendliest of terms (as are about two thirds of the girls in my class). She is about Julie's age, so she rarely ever pays attention. She complains during conditioning and with Gergely there's more conditioning if you complain. However if I get to know her a little better she might be nice. AND I might be able to get some baby-sitting customers.

The saturday gymnastics class.

I had a play date with Mara on Friday. After gymnastics we were actually able to convince our parents to let us have a sleepover. We had a morning gymnastics class at eight thirty so Mara and I agreed to go to sleep by eleven 'o' clock.

Karen was in charge of the class. We started out with mini tramp. Mini tramp is a spring board with a trampoline in the middle instead of springs. We started out with the simple stuff then we went into front flips. I then got to do some pikes (a front flip with straight legs). Karen made me do some lay outs too (a front flip where your body is completely straight). We went on the tumble track to do twists. A twist is a lay out where at the end you twist your body around. I tried to do a full twist but I could only manage halfs. I did a back walkover on the highway beam. Then I did back handsprings on the low fat beams.

Church time! I signed up to be an alter-server about two weeks ago. The problem is that there is a thing where the lead alter server does the teaching. However, the lead alter server graduated, so this conducts a problem. I have forty five minutes before church and I'm all ready. I have decided to post a blog. Mom does the choir so we normally sit by the choir. The alter servers get a reserved spot in the pews. I wonder if they'll sit by me or the choir.

Gymnastics day, and if I'm lucky I'll get Mrs. Deli as a coach to day. I need to remember to bring the trophy and my grips to the gym. I really want to go to bar and beam. If I can get as good on beam as I am on floor. I'll get really high scores. Bar if you ask me is so different from all the other events it becomes differcult. Although, because what you can do on bar varies so much, it is, in my opinion, one of the best ones to watch. However, connecting the skills gives bar a very fluent look. So it looks wonderful, even in compulsory levels, as long as it is connected.