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.