Toys

Dear Santa,

How is that cold weather over there in the North Pole?  I am happy that you're going to come this year and I hope you don't sleep too late.  This is Grace writing this.

What I want very much for Christmas is a Lalaloopsy doll.  It looks fun on TV and I have a good imagination for it.  Another thing I want is a pretend donut shop.  I want a donut shop because I have a good memory to tell people what kind of donut it is.  And with it I am hoping for all kinds of different donuts.  My favorite kind is a mint chocolate chip donut.  I want a couple stuffed elves because its Christmas and that's good for the holiday.  Elves are for Christmas.  Santa, I want a beach set too and I want it to come with an umbrella and pretend seashells and pretend sand and a pretend ocean.   It will remind me of summertime and I'm in a beachy mood right now.  I want an Oscar-shaped nutcracker that's green.  For Zara I want a Slimy (like the worm) little chewy toy.  And I want glitter.  I want to make super special crafts sparkly, especially the one I'm sending to Grandma and Grandpa.  I want a cool basketball because Daddy and I will think its cool.  I also want a Backpack doll and a Map doll because I want to have more Dora stuff.

Santa, I hope you have a good trip in the sleigh.  I'll keep my listening ears on when I'm sleeping so I can hear your reindeer.

Love,
Grace

The World is Made of Poems

The Silly Watermelon

I squeezed a watermelon
and there wasn't any juice coming out.
I wonder what happened
to my watermelon?
Perhaps my little sister.


The Nail Polish Dance

I was putting nail polish on my nails
only if you know why.
Perhaps I'm getting ready
for the nail polish dance.
The nail polish dance?
Whoo hoo!
And I danced
at the nail polish dance.


Drippy Ice Cream

I went to the ice cream parlor
to get some ice cream.
When the ice cream parlor
was holding my ice cream
it dripped.
When she was giving it to me
it dripped.
When I was holding it at the table
it dripped.
And when I licked it
it dripped.
Drippy drippy ice cream.


Broken Glass

I was washing a glass at the sink
and I dropped it
and it broke.
Perhaps my mom was mad.
I hit my mom.
(Editor's note: I asked Grace, "Do you want people to read this and think you hit your mom?" to which she replied, "No ... I'll tell them it's just a poem.")


My Puppy Poodle

I had a poodle
and I was walking it.
My poodle screamed at me
and I said, "Shhh,"
and he calmed down.
He was running away
and I said, "Come back,"
and he came back.
He was running in the grass
and I said, "Time to go in,"
and he went in the house.

Great Feast at Little Path

We had a Thanksgiving Feast today at school.  We made pizza.   We got dough and put it in flour and that was the pizza dough we used to make our pizza.  Yum!  We put it on a tray and decorated them with sauce, cheese, pepperoni, peppers and mushrooms.  [Another child] made a pizza but she didn't eat it because she had to leave because she was naughty and her mom made her go home.  I ate her pizza.  It had cheese and mushrooms. I think Mom ate mine and she shared with Zara.  Zara is my little sister.

I taught Zara all about Little Path.  I taught her how to wheel a truck on the floor and walk in Little Path.  And I taught her the days of the week and how to count.  Adeline thought Zara was a cutie.  Zara played with the little truck because I taught her how to wheel it and she just wheeled the big truck a little tiny bit.  When we left Zara went and hung out with Liam right before we went home.

Garbage Town

There was a lady named Annie.  Annie was a very nice girl and she had a best blue hat, and Garbage DeVil came and he threw everything away in everyone's house, even Annie's best hat!  Annie wanted to go outside one day and she needed a hat, and she realized she didn't have any best hat or any hat or coat or gloves to go outside.  Annie said, "Oh my!  I can't go outside.  But I really wish I could in the snow." 

Well, Garbage DeVil was taking a bath and he hopped in the garbage.  And then he hopped in the garbage to sleep.  He opened his eyes all night and his eyes went up to outer space.  Annie was in bed and she was snoring and sleeping and suddenly the garbage walked away.  And the garbage disappeared.  And the garbage walked on every single moon and jumped moon-to-moon.  And there was a giant and his name was Garbage DeVil and Garbage DeVil was green.  And that was who slept in the garbage and took a bath in the garbage.  Suddenly, the garbage slid down a slide.  All that was inside Annie's house was a little tiny drip of a little J-Chew Jelly drip.  When the giant woke up he saw garbage in his tanks! 

Hailey was a very young girl.  And Hailey knocked on the door of Annie's house.  Annie went to the store once and she bought a JoAnn Chocolate and suddenly she saw Garbage DeVil!  And Garbage DeVil took Annie and put her in his garbage tank.  And Annie dropped her chocolate.  And her shiny medal shined on her shirt.  And an earring made of garbage fell off of Garbage DeVil.  Hailey walked away into the neighborhood and there was another very little girl named Maggie and Maggie was Hailey's friend.  And Hailey ran after Maggie, and Maggie's pinky finger was red.  It was a drip, a very little tiny drip, of Annie's jelly from her chin.  And what happened is, it was raining and what was coming down from the rain was chocolate!  Everyone picked up the chocolate and Garbage DeVil put all the chocolate in his garbage tank.  Annie was in the garbage tank and she took her best hat from the garbage tank and tip-toe sneaked to her house.  Suddenly, Annie's mom came to Garbage DeVil and poked him really hard on the belly with a sword and put the sword down his throat and threw it and made sure it collected all his body.  The mom came back to Annie and Annie came back to her mom and they slept in their own beds and Garbage DeVil was no more.  There was no more visiting Garbage DeVil again.

They made a glue craft out of Garbage DeVil's body.

The End.

Movie Getting Watched

Today I went to a movie theatre with Daddy.  We were going on a date.  We went to the movie theatre to watch Nemo.  I brought candy in my purse.  I brought sour worms, gummi bears and I got popcorn at the movie theatre.  In this picture, this is me with my Nemo glasses on pretending to eat a piece of real popcorn.  And that was the popcorn I got at the movie theatre.  I was wearing Nemo glasses so the movie could pop out at my eyes and show that I could just grab it from the cieling.  I had 3D glasses.  The man that made our popcorn and Gatorade was nice because he put lots of butter on my popcorn.  My popcorn tasted good.

Finding Nemo is the one where the mean lady went in the room and the dentist and that mean lady were the villians.  I liked the movie.  My favorite part of the movie was when Marlin and Dory got eaten by the whale.  They fell off the tongue.  I thought that was funny. 

I was really happy at the movies because I liked the movie and Dad did too.  But Dad had to give his glasses back and I could keep them.

Vacation Orchard

Last week Mommy, Daddy, Zara and I went to Maine.  Aunt Gina and Kevin came too.  We ate lobster, salmon and grilled shrimp.  It was yummy.  One of the nights when I ate lobster, it was terrible (just one).  But I liked every other piece of food except the pasta salad.  It was terrible.  I had one clam of Kevin’s.  It was yummy.

I loved relaxation and watching movies in the car.  Zara was whining in the car.  She didn’t like it even one bit.  We tried giving her toys; she did not want them and just cried.

In Maine we saw a horse and I got to pet it on the side.  I also played with Zara in our house.  Our house had a huge lobster statue in a brown crate.  I slept in a tower.  Some days it was raining in Maine.  The other days it was sunny.  On the sunny days we went to the beach.  We put sun tan lotion on first (Editor's note: We did not put suntan lotion on our children! It was sunblock).  We made sandcastles and went in the ocean.  I liked the ocean.  The ocean was splashy.  I didn’t run into any boats.  I was always with Daddy, Mommy, Aunt Gina or Kevin.  Vacation was fun, especially the eating.

When I got home I asked Grandma if she wanted to go to Maine.  She said, “Yes, maybe next time I can live in the house next door to you in Maine.”  When I got home I was happy to see all my toys and I played “Applebee’s.”

I had fun in Maine.  Thank you for making Maine, God.

Naughty Doctors

I was in the car going to the doctor's for my check-up.  First they weighed me and then they measured me.  I weighed 31 pounds. I had to pee in the pee-catcher.  Then I got shots and I cried.  Then I got an Ariel sticker.  And then they put a Band-Aid on the shots. 

Daddy took me to Wegman's when I was done at the doctor's.  We bought stuff for stuffed shells and bread.  When we got home I baked bread.   I went home and told Mommy all about it.  Mommy said, "Oh, you poor baby."   

I was trusting God to help me be brave at the doctor's.  We are going to have shells for supper.  I have to go help Daddy make them.

I didn't like the doctor's at all.  But it was fun anyway.  And I have a nice playhouse.  Amen.