Santa Claus is Coming To Town

I LOVE Christmas! Some of the things that I like about Christmas is being able to sleep in (I'm sure a lot of people can agree). I also like waking up on Christmas morning and seeing all of the presents. I know that Christmas is not about the presents, I just get really excited!😆😆😆 Christmas is all about spending time with your family and friends.

One more thing that I like about Christmas is the magic of SANTA CLAUS!!!!
Santa is awesome!!  One Christmas Eve I could swear that I heard Santa's sleigh bells.🔔🔔🔔



I love Christmas carols. My favorite one is Six White Boomers. Which Christmas carol is your favorite? Tell me in the comments, if you do not celebrate Christmas tell me your favorite part of the winter break.

My family is really in the Christmas spirit. We put up lights, decorations and we also put up two Christmas trees! One is downstairs in out dining room and one upstairs in our bonus room. Both of them have a lot of ornaments. We even put tiny presents on our reading area plate!

  Hope you have a merry Christmas and if you do not celebrate Christmas have a safe and warm winter break! BYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am In Grade 4 and Now Grade 2!!

WHAT!! How can you be in grade 4 and 2? Let me tell you how.

I am in grade 4 at school and I also had my ballet grade 2 exam on December 6th. The exam was very exciting, but nerve racking at the same time. We had to perform exercises to get marks. We had to get a 50 or higher to pass. I don't know if I passed yet, but I will know in February and that is making me nervous. (WHAT IF I DIDN'T PASS!) I do think that I did pass because I did really well on all of the exercises.💃

We also had to do two dances. The names of the Dances were Dance A and Dance C. Dance A was about a person who had never seen snow before. (bet they don't live in Calgary 😆😆😆) Dance C is about a person who wants to plant a garden.

We had coloured bows in our hair and a number on our bodysuits. I was number 1 and I had a pink bow in my hair. The examiner's name was Mrs. Lackner. Our piano accompanist was Ms. Carla. Something funny that happened was that Ms. Carla's music binder fell off the piano while my friend was dancing!!!!😆

I can't wait to.......start grade 2 ballet. Classes start tomorrow! Most of my friends took the exam and are starting grade 2 with me. I won't see my other friends in class but we will meet in other classes. I am really looking forward to seeing the results of my exam. I hope I did well!


 P.S There's only 2 weeks and one day until Christmas! Today the chocolate in my advent calendar was a tiny Santa which was inside the belly of a snowman picture. BYE!!!!!!!!   

Herald The Seahorse

Last Week my dance studio put on a show. The show was The Little Mermaid. I was Herald the Seahorse. Herald is King Triton's helper. My costume was vary cute. It had a Seahorse head and a really bright neon dress. I was in scenes 2,9,13,18 and 19 the names of the scenes were:

2-Daughters of Triton

9-Under The Sea

13-On Land

18-Ariel Left Behind 

19-Interrupted Wedding 

I was in my Herald coutume for scenes 2,18 and 19.🐚 Under The Sea was the most tiring scene because we had to sing as well as dance. In scene 19 I had to pretend that King Triton was hurt, it was very hard because I could see him right there and he was okay. I am going to tell you what different animals I was during the show.

The animals I played in the different scenes 

2-Seahorse

9-Fish

13-Seagull 

18-Seahorse

19-Seahorse

I was the only one in a Seahorse costume because I was a character. My sister was also in the show. She was part of the singing group.

 My dad came to watch. He was right in the front row. During the show I could not see him.👀 My mom was backstage, helping the grades 1-3s and the 4-6 year olds. There were 2 shows, one from 2;00pm to 3:15pm and the second  from 4:00pm to 5:15pm. Both shows were an hour and 15 minutes long.

That is all I have to say for today! Hope you enjoyed the blog and tell me in the comments which song from The Little Mermaid is your favorite. Bye!!!!!!!

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A Time To Remember

I really don't like wars but if WWI and WWII did not happen we might have not had our freedom. At school we are learning about the world wars. We read a book about a ten year old and how her dad went to war, but died. When our teacher was reading the last page I started to cry.

WWI started in 1914 and ended in 1918. WWII started in 1939 and ended in 1945.🎕 I am so thankful that I was not alive during the world wars because if I had been, I would have been scared seeing all of the death and destruction.

My favorite Remembrance Day poem is In Flanders Fields. I have memorized the whole poem.

In Flanders Fields

BY John McCrae

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses row on row

That mark our place in the sky

Larks still bravely singing fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow

Loved and were loved and now we lie in Flanders Fields

Take up our quarrel with the foe

to you from failing hands we throw 
The torch be yours to hold it high. 
If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep though poppies grow in Flanders Fields.

Another poem I like is Poppy Poppy.

Poppy Poppy

Poppy poppy what do you say?

Wear me on Remembrance Day

Poppy poppy what do you tell?

Many soldiers in battle fell

Poppy poppy what should we know?

Peace on earth should grow,grow,grow

I like that poem because it is super cute and really catchy.

At dance when the clock said 11:11 we had a moment of silence. We have this moment of silence so we can thank the fallen soldiers that fought in battle. Also because the war ended on 11/11/1918 and the time was 11:11.

Do you know any Remembrance Day poems? Let me know. Bye!.

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I Did It!!! (The Cat Edition)

I am so excited to tell you about my adventure at the Cat Cafe.🐱 I was at the Cat Cafe for my friend's 10th birthday party. Half of the cafe is a normal cafe and half of it is a room full of cats.  The Cat Cafe is a place where you can play with cats and adopt them.

I was afraid of cats because I was scared that they were going to scratch and bite me, but now I know that they are completely harmless. All of the cats are super cute and I loved them so much. I spent a whole 45 minutes with them! I petted 5 cats! But I still get a tiny bit startled if the cats jump down from a high place.

There are a lot of rules that you have to go over before you can play with the cats.

Cat Cafe Rules🐱

1. Always wash your hands before you enter the kitty room.

2. Do not pick up the cats

3. Do not take any pictures or videos of the cats

4.  Please return your visitor tags before you leave.

The Cat Cafe has a lot of rules, but I can only remember 4. I was really impressed with myself for going in there with the cats. After the 45 minutes were over we went for a walk around Kensington. We stopped at a restaurant and had Bubble Tea and fries. I had my Bubble Tea with no pearls. We had a choice of strawberry Bubble Tea or mango Bubble Tea. I chose mango Bubble Tea. It had something that tasted like the  gummies in Aloe juice. In case you don't know what Aloe juice is, it is just like juice and has a citrus taste and it helps prevent tummy problems. I love Aloe so much.💖

Anyway after we had our food we went to the Gummy Boutique 🍬 I got some Blue Raspberry popping candy for my sister and Grape popping candy for myself.👭 After everyone got their candy we walked to the blue sports building where we had met and waited for out parents to come get us.👪

I really hope you like this blog post! Stay tuned for my next blog about Remembrance Day.🎕

       

Read if You Dare!

Hey, this weeks blog is going to be about Halloween!🦇 Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. I will be talking about a few things in this blog post. The things I am going to talk about are the Halloween parade, the Halloween dance, dress up week, pumpkin carving, putting up decorations and Trick or Treating.

The first thing I will be talking about is the Halloween parade. The parade was held at school. The first half of the day was a normal school morning. After lunch we changed into our Halloween costumes. I was dressed up as Katniss Everdeen from the book series The Hunger Games. Most of the students were dressed up. How the parade works is that the "K's" (Kindergarten) would walk through the classrooms and the other classes would follow them. Ex. The "K's" walk through room 1,room 1 would follow the "K's" to room 2 etc. Anyway when we were walking through the learning commons we got 1 packet of rocket candy.

When we got back from the parade we watched a mystery movie that also fit with the Halloween theme. The movie was Scooby-Doo and the Case of the Vampire!!!!!!!! While we were watching the movie, we filled out a Mystery Map Sheet in which you write the characters' names. One other thing, the people that did not get their schoolwork done had to do their work and couldn't watch the movie until they were finished.

Now I am going to tell you about the Halloween dance! It was absolutely spooktacular🤣🤣 The dance was a part of the after-school care. We had a little snack and then started dancing.,There was a DJ and the DJ had a sheet of paper. You wrote your name and the song you would like the DJ to play and then the DJ would play it. We also got candy! But we only got it if we were dancing. I was dancing so I got to pick one candy. When I got tired I played "Guess Who" with my friend. The candy I picked was a candy called SweeTarts. (the two words "share" the "T") The candy was really good. The dance was fun to attend and I look forward to it next year.

The next thing I am going to tell you about is the dress up week at my dance studio. Dress up week is really simple- you just come to dance in a costume and dance in it. The first day I was dressed as a pair of PJ's. This costume is really easy to make. All you do is get a pair of comfortable pajamas and wear them. On the second day I was the Spirit of Teamwork. I found this really easy to find, all I did was buy a sweatshirt and wore it with black leggings. The sweatshirt had this printed on it.

T ogether

E veryone

A chieves 

M  ore 

The coolest part about my Halloween was pumpkin carving!!!! This year was the first year I carved a pumpkin! I did a basic smiley face and my dad did all of the hard complicated faces. I think all of them turned out cute. The hardest part of pumpkin carving is clearing out the inside of the pumpkin🥄 After we had finished carving all of the pumpkins we put them outside, put a candle in them and went back inside to get decorations.

You probably guessed what I am talking about now....the decor. All we did was thread lights through the railings and stuck signs and pumpkin lanterns in the ground. We also hung up a pumpkin ghost on the top part of our porch.

The last thing I did was go Trick Or Treating! I went to a lot of houses and got a whole pillow case of candy!🖵 when I got home I watched some Netflix and went to bed. I hope you guys had an amazing Halloween and if you don't celebrate it then I hope you had an amazing day doing what you were doing.   
         

Gamer Dudes and Dudettes

Hey! Do you like playing video games? If so, read on! In this weeks blog I will be talking about the game I play at my after-school care. At the after-school care we have a lot of games on the X-box but only one on the computers and that game is...Minecraft !!!!!!!!!!!

On the computers we have two worlds for Minecraft. A world for 5-8 year-olds and a world for 9-12 year-olds. In the 9-12 world there are two places you can build a home. One is Cupcakelandia and the other one is Tree Top Village. I am building my house in Tree Top Village. Now I am going to tell you more about the two places.

Cupcakelandia

In Cupcakelandia you get a lot. you can write your name on the lot sign so that people know it is yours and can not touch or go in it without your permission. In the town center there will be a...UNICORN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!🦄 You can get wool by going to the sheep farm and shearing them. You can also dye the white sheep in all of the colours of the rainbow. All of the houses have to be cupcakes!! The rules are that you can not go to the Tree Top Village, you can NOT kill the sheep and you can not break a player's house.

That is Cupcakelandia and now to Tree Top Village.

Tree Top Village

In Tree Top Village it is a little bit different from Cupcakelandia. You get a lot, put your name on it and other players can not go in. If you need supplies like an axe to cut down trees for wood you can go to the big tree in the town center. The same rules as Cupcakelandia except the other way around -you can not go to Cupcakelandia and all the houses need to be trees and and you can not break a players house.

Do you play Minecraft too? Tell me about it in the comments!!!!! BYE 👋!!!!

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Freedom, Freedom, Freedom

On the 16th of October, I had my very first tap solo class! I am doing my solo to a song in which the work "freedom" is repeated, so that became the title of my blog this week.  My solo class was from 11am -12pm. The only problem was that my mom had a meeting at 8:00am. She could not drop me to my dance studio because she could not leave the meeting at all so she came up with a mom-promise 😅(a mom-promise is a compromise made by a mom...ha!) She spoke with my friend's mom and dropped me off at their house...AT 7:30 IN THE MORNING!

When we got there, the whole family except the dad was waiting at the door! When I went into their house I played with all of the kids. My friend is in Grade 5, her brother is in Grade 2, and the other brother is in preschool. When it was time for the little one to go to preschool he cried. 😞 His mom got him to go by making us do "homework" 📖🖉⌦   He finally left because he did not want to do any homework at all!

For a while, my friend and her brother played on their Ipads and I played on my Nintendo 3DS.🎮My friend and I then went to her room but her brother was not allowed to come in. While we were in there we talked about dance and then went downstairs to practice our group competitive dances.💃When her mom got home we got our dance stuff and went to the car. My friend's brother took like 10 minutes to get ready!🕘
When we got to the dance studio we got our tap shoes on and waited until our teacher came.

I learned my tap solo and it is really fast! My next class is in November so I will have A LOT of time to practice.🕒

L-L-O-Y-D...I Named You

Hi!!!!!!! In this blog I will be telling you about some of the things that I liked about the Lego Ninjago Movie and some things that I didn't like. Before I get on with it I want to say that there is a short list of what I did not like about the movie and they are all about little things so that's that.👍  Anyway, these are the things that I liked about the movie.

                                             MAJOR SPOILER ALERT...

Please do NOT read on if you have NOT seen the movie!!!!!!

Things that I liked👍 

1. I liked that it had a very satisfying ending📘

2. I liked that the movie was actually a man telling a story to a kid👨📖

3. I liked that Lloyd builds a relationship with his dad👲👨💖

4. I liked that Lloyd finally learned how to throw and catch...it is a life skill...you have to know how to do it!⛹

Yes, I know I put a lot of emojis but I just have to! Anyway, I did like all of the things that I said and now......the things I did not like⛔

Things that I didn't like👎

1. In a flashback scene, Koko and Garmadon said they met at a bar, BUT THEY DID NOT MEET IN A BAR!!!  They met while they were training.

2. The movie makers made Lloyd's mom's name koko...it is actually, Misako!!!!!

3. Garmadon is still evil...... NOT!!!!  He turned good at the end of season 2 and the movie showed information that happened in later seasons.

4. They made Zane look weird. There can be a lot of things changed for a movie but you cannot make Zane look weird!!!!

This was my short review of the movie.  The next movie that I want to watch is Coco.  I am sure it will be great.   Bye for now!!!!!👋      

Daddy's Home!!!!!!!!!!!

I have really exciting news!!! My dad has come back home and he arrived last week. My dad has been in Toronto for work for all of last year and I have not seen him for ONE WHOLE YEAR!!!!!! I screamed my head off when I found out that he was coming back.😲 He came back just in time for Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving in Canada is celebrated in October but it is celebrated in November in the United States.  I like Thanksgiving for many reasons...I am thankful about things, we get to eat turkey, and once Thanksgiving is over, we can put up Halloween decorations.

This year, I am thankful that there is enough water for everyone in Canada.  There are many countries in the world where people have to walk for so long to get water from wells and rivers.  Then they have to boil the water and get rid of all the germs before they can drink it.  I am also thankful that I live in my own house and that there are people like police officers to keep my city safe.

Now about the food!!!  For Thanksgiving dinner there was turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, roast potatoes and onions, bread rolls, and ground meat.  A whole turkey is too much for us to finish, so instead we got two thighs for my parents and two drumsticks for me and my sister.  The pieces were huge and I couldn't even finish my piece.  I love mashed potatoes and gravy so I had two helpings.  For dessert, I had a banana with chocolate syrup because I don't like cheesecake 🍲😏.

I am so happy that my whole family was together for Thanksgiving!  Happy Canadian Thanksgiving to all of you!!!

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View Dance Convention

Yesterday was so exciting. I went to my very first dance convention. It all started with me having to wake up super early on the weekend.😫I know..so sad, but it was okay because I was going to have classes with some amazing dancers.  One of my best friends came in the car with me and we were both so excited! When we got there we stood in a long line for registration.  My friend and I measured how far away from the table we were...we were 48 steps away. At the table we each got a wrist band that we HAD to keep on all day and a number that we had to pin to our bodysuits.  My number was 579. There were a lot of girls from my dance studio (Absolute Dance), but there were also many other studios there.  We were divided into three groups according to our ages and then the classes began!

🕺MY CLASSES💃

1. Jazz

2. Floor work

3. Ballet

4. Contemporary

5. HIP HOP

6. Tap

The first class was Jazz and we did street funk style. We did a combo to the song "All I Do Is Win"...dancing the combo was a lot of fun. The second class we had was floor work. We did lots of rolls, across the floor movements, and arm and core strengthening exercises. The third class we had was ballet.  I learned how to do some hard poses, stances, positions, and techniques. Then we had our lunch break. After lunch we had a contemporary class. We learnt that having correct technique is very important.  The next class was hip hop. It was soooooo much fun. We learnt an old school hip hop combo. The last class was tap and we all danced much faster than I do at my studio.  In the list above, I put ballet in red because all dance forms come from ballet, and I put tap in purple because this year I have a tap solo for my competitions.

I WAS AT THE CONVENTION FOR THE WHOLE DAY AND I HAD SO MUCH FUN!!!!!  I HOPE THAT I AM INVITED TO ATTEND AGAIN NEXT YEAR!!!!

Here is the link to my studio, if you want to take a look:

www.absolutedanceinc.com

        

The Winners Of Family Bingo

Four days ago my school had a Welcome Back BBQ. It was so much fun. Apart from all the burgers, hotdogs, and other yummy food and desserts, there were some games that we could play.  I hung out with my friend and we played two games.

Game one: In game one we had to guess the number of jelly   beans in the jar. After we did that we had to guess how many jelly  beans were  green.  This is because my school is a 'green' school.  This means that we take care of the environment and we have also as a school adopted a park that is nearby.   I guessed there were 100 jelly beans and 20 of them were green. I was way off!  The next day I found out that there must have been about 300 of them!

Game two:  This game was a type of bingo game that you had to play on your own.  There was a sheet made up like a bingo grid with questions written on then and you needed to go around the school and ask the different families the questions.  When you got a correct answer, you had to write their surname.  For example:  The question is 'Do you have a dog?'.  You choose a family and ask them that.  If they have a dog, you write that family's surname.  If they don't have a dog, you ask another family until you find one that has a dog.  This game was supposed to get people to talk to each other and get to know each other.  The next day I found out that there were two winners for the bingo game and it was me and my friend because we were the only ones who played 😆.  Everyone must have been too busy eating!  I was very glad to get a gift card to Dairy Queen.

Usually for the bbq a man dressed up as Elvis comes to sing, but this year there was no Elvis.  Instead, our new music teacher played with his friend.  They are both part of a band...how cool is that...my music teacher plays and sings in a band!!!!!!!  I didn't know any of the songs that he was singing but it sounded good.

My mom was helping organize the bbq and I helped her clean up along with some other people.  We got to take the leftovers home!  The bbq was a lot of fun and there are going to be more events in the school year.


 

School Has Started...Finally

This blog post is about the first day of school.  The first day of school is always so exciting and also very busy. When I got to school I did not go to class straight away but I went to the Before and After School Care that is at my school.  I went there because my school starts a 8:40am and I got to school at about 7:40am. The staff put out cereal and toast for breakfast that day.   I always eat breakfast there with my friends. At 8:15 we clean up and go outside to play until it is time to go in.

We come inside at 8:40 and we go to class. In class we take down our chairs and sit quietly. When our teacher came in she did attendance and gave us our school supplies. We got pencils, erasers, a sharpener and highlighters. We got a pink highlighter, a yellow highlighter, a green highlighter, a blue highlighter and a purple highlighter. I already had all the stuff from when I went back to school shopping, but it was good to have extras of everything.

After we got our supplies we got our desk drawers. We but our drawers in the drawer slot and waited for our teacher to go over the rules. There are a lot of rules but I am going to tell you 5.

CLASSROOM RULES

1. Raise your hand if you want to speak.
2.  ALWAYS tell an adult where you are going.
3. Walk in the school.
4. Be respectful to others and your surroundings.
5. Speak with an inside voice.

For the rest of the day we talked about our summer and went over the plan for the year and goals for the next few months.  I am so exited for this year. It will be amazing!      

My First Sleepover

On Friday, I had my first sleepover.  It started out as a play date but soon the plans changed because my friend and I hadn't seen each other all summer and we wanted to play for a longer time.

My school has early dismissal on Fridays, so as soon as the bell rang, we ran to our hooks and got our backpacks.  My friend's mom came to pick us up and when we got to her house, we played for about an hour and a half, and then had lunch.  We had grilled cheese sandwiches. After we ate, we went to a splash park that was nearby. At the splash park, we met some of our other friends from school. We splashed around for a bit and then went to the playground.

At the playground we went on the slides and did the monkey bars. The monkey bars were very high. It took me a while but I finally did it. We kept going back and forth between the splash park and the playground. On the swings at the playground my flip flops fell off and my friends were trying to get them back on my feet while I was swinging.😆 It was so funny.

Back at my friend's house, I met her cousin. She was also sleeping over. The three of us played in the backyard and on the trampoline until dinner. After we ate we watched the movie Frozen. When we finished we cleaned up and got ready for bed.  Of course, there was a lot of talking and laughing until we finally fell asleep.  We woke up early on Saturday and there was more talking and laughing until breakfast. We played on the trampoline some more but this time the sprinkler was on underneath us.

I had so much fun at the sleepover but I was really happy to see my mom when she picked me up.  I missed my family so much.  Now that I know I can stay away from home okay, I can't wait for my next sleepover.      

Alarm Set To 6:00am

It is the last day of summer! Yay! I mean whaaat?. I am so excited to go back to school and I am going to tell you what I have packed in my school bag. So, in the main pocket, I have my binder. It isn't full of paper like you would expect but it is full of notebooks. I could put the notebooks in there because they have holes to match the binder rings.  In there I also have my pencil case with pencils and pens and stuff like that. I also have a spare hat,scarf and gloves in case it gets cold.  The weather in Calgary can change from hour to hour and it is good to be prepared.

In the front pocket I have lotion and lip balm. I have lotion because the weather is really dry right now and it can get worse, especially when it is cold outside. I also have three flavored lip balms...Watermelon, Pomegranate and Blue raspberry. I collected these lip balms from my check ups at the dentist.

I already have a routine to get ready for school. My alarm rings at 6:00am every morning. I try to keep my clothes ready the night before, but sometimes I come home late from an activity and I'm too tired so I have to do it in the morning. It's my job to wake my sister up gently with hugs and kisses.  She likes school but she does not like to wake up in the mornings.  Once I am ready, it's time to leave.

This last week of summer vacation, I didn't really go out anywhere.  It's been very hot and there is a lot of smoke in the air because of the wild fires.  I keep packing and unpacking my backpack!  I love going to school and can't wait to tell you all about my first week back.

Tin Foil Boat

This week has been a lot of getting organized and cleaning out things I don't need.  School starts next week and my back to school shopping is done.  I've got all my supplies and my new backpack is ready to go.

I didn't really go out and do anything this week, but I did recycle the tin foil inside a chocolate wrapper to make a craft.  Over the last year, I've learnt a lot of things about taking care of the environment and how important it is to reduce waste, reuse something, and recycle.

I also learned how to write out the steps to a science activity, so I am going to tell you how I made the boat by writing it out properly.

MATERIALS NEEDED:

Tin foil
Cardboard
Blue construction paper
Scissors
Tape

HOW TO MAKE A TIN FOIL BOAT:

1.  Cut as much foil as you need to make your boat.  The size of the boat will depend on how much foil you use.  Shape the foil so that it looks like a boat, with a flat bottom and points at the sides.
2.  Crumple any extra foil into small balls...as many as you want.
3.  Place the foil balls inside the boat (these are the people).
4.  Cut out a rectangle from the cardboard.
5.  Cut out a rectangle from the construction paper that is the same size as the cardboard rectangle.
6.  Tape the two rectangles together.
7.  Attach the bottom of the boat onto the blue side (this makes it look like the boat is in the water).

It's a very simple craft but fun to do and quick and easy as well.  If you want, you can have many boats on a big piece of water.

Crafts are fun to do and are not just for little children.  I like doing crafts because it makes me think to make something pretty and I can decide what I want it to look like.  We use a lot of crafts and things that we make to help us learn things in Social Studies, Math, and Science.

I can't wait to go back to school...can you tell?

Let's Just Say I'm The Boss

It's been a slow and lazy week, and I've been doing nothing!  It feels great to be able to do nothing during the summer.  Once September comes around, I'll become very busy again.

Every year, the community that I live in puts on an outdoor event called Movie in the Park.  I've been going to it for a couple of years and it's fun.  A HUGE screen is set up and families bring chairs, blankets, and snacks, and we get to see a movie.  In previous years, I've watched Home and Zootopia at this event.

Yesterday was Movie in the Park for this summer and I went with my mom.  This year, the movie that they showed was The Boss Baby.  It is a really funny movie and there were many parts where I was laughing out loud.

The Boss Baby is about a baby that is a manager at the baby factory.  Adults have started loving puppies more than babies, and the boss baby is sent to investigate and stop the adults from giving all their love to the dogs.  If that happens, then the baby factory will go out of business.

Mom and I had to take our folding chairs and blankets, as it was quite cold and windy.  I ended up wearing a sweater, toque, Snuggie, and had two blankets around me, to keep me warm and cozy.  We also took snacks to eat.  There was popcorn, cheese, cheese buns, water, and juice.  Yummy!  I ate quite a bit of everything!

There were quite a few people there already when we arrived at the field, but we found a good spot and the screen was so big, that people who came after us and sat behind us, were still able to see.  Although it was chilly, a lot of families were there and many more kids.

The movie ended quite late and it was beautiful to see all the stars in the sky.  At the end of the event, everyone quickly packed up their stuff so that they could get back to their warm homes.  Even though we live very close to the field where the event was happening, Mom had brought the car, and that was a good thing because it was freezing by then.

The Movie in the Park event is the last thing that the community puts together for the summer and it lets people know that school will start soon.  I'm actually happy that school will begin in two weeks...I can't wait to see my teacher and friends.

I wonder what movie I'll get to see next year...



                                                                                       

Taste Of Calgary

Today my sister,mom and I went to Eau Claire Market, in Calgary. There were a lot of food stands and food trucks. We went to a food truck to get some butter chicken with rice and the food truck was called Kurry Up. We were going to the wading pool but before that we got some ice cream. They were not popsicles; they were Mini Melts!

The wading pool looked like a normal swimming pool except that the water was really shallow.  There was also a playground on the other side of the pool. There were two separate pools with different water temperatures.  I stepped into one pool and it was freezing!!!!! I started to walk around in the pool but it was so cold that it was making my legs burn.  Then I tried to sit down in the water but it took a while to sit down completely. Once I did, I started to swim a bit. It was very shallow so my hands were on the bottom and my tummy almost touched the bottom, too. My tummy was skinning the floor of the pool. I swam for a long time and then went into the second pool. This pool was warm. It had the same depth as the first pool. More kids were in the warm pool. I swam for a long time and went back to my sister. My mom had gone to get more samples of food for my sister and myself.  I went back to the cold pool and swam just for a little bit, and  then got changed because it was quite windy and overcast. After I got changed, I had my butter chicken and ice cream.

There were so many food stands and food trucks that it was impossible to eat from all of them.  We picked and chose and this is what we ended up eating:

Me - butter chicken with rice, vanilla Mini Melts, chow mein with chicken balls and ginger beef (I gave the ginger beef to my sister), chicken spring roll, mac and cheese with bacon.

My sister - butter chicken with rice, cookies and cream Mini Melts, chow mein with chicken balls and ginger beef, mac and cheese, poutine, coco churros with caramel filling.

Everything was a small portion but even then it was a lot of food.  We ended up bringing half of it home and ate it for dinner.

As we were leaving the market, it started to rain.  Our car was parked two blocks away and we had to speed walk all the way, but it was still a fun day.

Taste of Calgary happens every year, in the summer...we're going to go back next summer and I can't wait!!!!!              

Summer Television

Hi! It's been a very slow week, so I am just going to write about the shows I have been watching on tv.

The first show is called, "Total Drama Island".  It is just like "Survivor", except that it is a cartoon.   "Total Drama Island" is a show where teams go through a series of challenges that tests them both physically and mentally. The teams are Team Bear and Team Dolphin. Whichever team lost a challenge, they would have to go to an elimination ceremony, where they have to vote a team member off the island.

The second show is called,  "American Ninja Warrior".  In that show, people go through a series of obstacles. First they will have to train and then be invited to be on the show. First they will go through Qualifiers. If they pass they will go to The City Finals. If they finish that, they will go to Vegas to compete in the finals. Whoever wins the competition will be crowned American Ninja Warrior.

The third show is called, "Master Chef"and this show is about 24 home cooks going head-to-head in a battle to be crowned Master Chef. There are two types of challenges.  In the Mystery Box Challenge, the contestants will have to use whatever ingredients are in a randomly chosen box, to cook a stunning dish that will impress the judges.  The winner gets an advantage in the competition.  There is also a team challenge.  Here, the cooks are divided into two teams and they cook against each other.  The winning team is safe and the losing team has to go through a pressure test.  At the end of this test, someone will be going home...dun, dun, duuuuuun!

The fourth show is called, "America's Got Talent".  People come from all over the country to show off their talents, like singing or dancing.  If the judges don't like the act, they hit a buzzer, and your journey ends.  If the judges press the golden buzzer, that means they love you and you go straight to the finals.

The fifth show is called, "Amazing Race Canada".  I really like this show because of all the travelling that they do.  The tasks and challenges are quite hard but fun to watch.  At the end of each leg, one team gets eliminated and goes home.  I felt really sad whenever a team that I liked had to go home.

The last show is called, "World of Dance" and it is my favourite show. There are so many wonderful dancers and they are all amazing.  I am also a dancer and I like to watch them and pick up tips and tricks from them.

These are the shows that I am watching over my summer vacation.  I don't want to give away too much about the shows because then it would be spoilers.  I really hope that you will also watch these shows because they are all very good and entertaining.

See you next week, and happy watching tv!!!!!                      

I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up to No Good

Today my mom and I went to Kensington's Diagon Alley, but don't worry...we didn't expose the Wizarding world.

We took a train to Sunnyside Station. I thought it was called Sunny Side because Sunny Side eggs were made there.  Ha, ha!  On the train we saw many people in robes, cloaks, capes, and costumes from Harry Potter.  Most of the people wore the colours of Griffyndor.  I am a Griffyndor, too.  When we arrived at Sunnyside, we saw that the name of the station had been changed to King's Cross, and there was a Platform 9 3/4.  Almost everyone had a photo taken with those signs.

What the Diagon Alley was, was that all the shops inside a quadrilateral (that's a four-sided shape) had changed their names to represent Hogwarts and places inside the Harry Potter books and they had a lot of interesting decorations up.  There were owls, balloons, and even people dressed up.  I saw Professor Dumbledore with the Tri-Wizard Tournament cup, Professor McGonagal with her cat, and even Mad-Eye Moody walking around.  Many shops were selling Butterbeer and Pumpkin Pasties.  Most of the shops had really long lines...the longest ones were for Crave cupcakes and Cobb's breads.

There were some booths set up as well and I bought a few things from them.  I bought black slime, a wooden wand made of spruce with the hair of an eagle in the middle of it and it is 13 inches long, a white quill which was to remember Hedwig, and a parchment that had Mischief Managed written on it in calligraphy.  I also got a special wand...it was a twig with a feather attached to it, and when I said Wingardiam Leviosa, the feather rose up in the air.

We stayed there for about an hour because it was very hot and it was very crowded.  I'm going to go back again next year.  Until then...mischief managed!

Is It Yeehaw Or Yahoo?

Over the summer my family went to a lot and I mean A LOT of stampede breakfasts.

The first one we went to was at Creekside Co-op. The Co-op wasn't to far away from my house. At the stampede there was of course a really long line but it moved quickly.  For breakfast we had pancakes, sausages and an orange or apple juice box. I wanted to go into the bouncy castle but I am too big. While eating there was a singer singing Canadian songs and I saved a balloon! The balloon was floating away from a baby and I chased after it and returned it.

The second breakfast was for Family Day at the Stampede.  It was fun.  Again there was a long line for breakfast but to pass the time I played a virtual  reality truck game. The people who worked there taught me how to ''drive'' the car and put some goggles on me. When they put those on me I was put into the game! My car was called Clean Finish, and I came in second place! We got the same thing to eat. We ate and played some games and then we went home.

The third breakfast was in the neighborhood. We went to the plaza near my house and got breakfast.
It was raining a lot so we sat in the car and ate. After we ate we went back home and just relaxed. I watched Master Chef on On Demand. I watched ep. 3.

The fourth breakfast was at Market Mall. There was music and a long line. It was raining again so we went inside to eat our pancakes.  We got a bit wet but they were still good. After we ate we went to Kernels and bought some popcorn. We got Say Cheese Cheese. They were very, very yummy. When we were done we went to the dentist for an appointment.

The fifth breakfast was at Dalhousie Station and all we did was eat and go home where I watched some of The Amazing Race Canada.

The sixth breakfast was at Crowfoot Co-op but we did not go because I told my mom that there were pancakes coming out of my ears and I was sweating maple syrup.

I can't wait to have pancakes again next year!

        

Another Year Older

On July 7th 2008 I was born,and now in 2017 I am nine. Want to know what I did on my birthday? Of course you do.

So, the first thing I did was wake up screaming  "it's my birthday" over and over again. I woke my sister up and we got ready for my b-day (birthday). After we got ready we drove all the way to my favourite breakfast place ever...IHOP. I ordered five big buttermilk pancakes, banana pennies, strawberries, Nutella  and strawberry lemonade. It was awesome but of course I didn't finish all of it.

After we ate, we went to see Smurfs: The Lost Village. It was amazing! That is all I can say...really...I have no words.

After we watched the movie, we went to a place even better than Flying Squirrel.  Injanation!!! It had American Ninja Warrior obstacles and rock climbing, but best of all, it had trampolines. The obstacles were easy and hard. I almost did everything but I couldn't do all of the ring monkey bars.

At the rock climbing station, we had to put on harnesses because it is always safety first. But the harnesses hurt so much! Anyway, there were four types of rock climbing stations. The first one was a spiral, the second one was a climbing rope, the third one was a normal rock climbing wall and the fourth was a rock climbing wall that timed you.

My sister and I played on the trampolines. We played dodge ball on them and my sister started singing the song "he's a pirate" from Pirates of the Caribbean. We played a lot and I hurt my shoulder. After we played doge ball, we went to the big trampolines and did tricks. We stayed for an hour and then we left.

The last thing we did was bowling. I got one hundred and one points and my sister got one hundred and six points, so she won. When we were on our way home, we got an ice cream cake. At home, we Skyped my dad and opened presents, and cut the cake.  Now I am nine years old!                                                                                                                                                                  

A Trip Back In Time

One day there were some little Sparks who went to the wrong barn.  They were supposed to go to the red barn but they went to the grey barn instead.

Hi everyone! Sorry I did not post a blog in like a month but I was really busy with competitions, recitals and classes but now school is done and I can get back to my blogging. In my Language Arts class, we learnt about ways to get the reader's attention when writing a story.  One of the ways, is to write an opening that will make the reader want to find out more.  I started my story in the above paragraph.  If I have your attention and you want to find out more, please continue to read my story, below.

On June 24th, I went on a sleepover at Heritage Park with my mom,sister and the Sparks unit that my mom leads. In case you are wondering, Sparks is the youngest level in Girl Guides. As I already said, we went to the wrong barn and had to drive all the way to the other barn. Once we got there, we met Brenna, who was in charge of the barn and was taking care of us. You should know that even though it was a barn, there were no animals inside, but bunk beds, a kitchen and a dining area.  First we went and chose bunk beds and who you were sharing a bunk bed with. I was sharing a bunk bed with my sister. My sister was on the bottom and I was on top. My sister and I had already decided that we would be partners.

After we set up our sleeping bags and our pillows and all that jazz, we headed to the tables for dinner.  There was Caesar salad, pizza, juice boxes, and brownies.  After dinner, we had a fire drill and a short tour of the park.  On our way back, we saw a deer and I was able to tell everyone that it was a white-tailed buck because I had learnt about them at school this year.  When we got back to the barn, we went upstairs to do some activities.

There were many activities for us to do and we took turns at each station.  There were old-fashioned toys for us to play with.  There was no tv or internet in the old days so the kids had to play with only these toys.  They also spent a lot of time outside.  There was also a box of wooden log pieces and we had to build cabins using them.  I learnt how to write in cursive handwriting using chalk and slates.

There was a craft station where we made paper fans and then we learnt that if girls held the fan in certain ways, they were speaking in code to the boys, at dances.  Some of the things they were saying were "dance with me", "go away", and "you may kiss me" - yuck!  We also learnt a dance and some of us were boys and some of us were girls.  My sister and I were boys but her partner was a lot shorter than her and kept doing her own thing, so my sister kept looking at my mom with a confused face.  Mom couldn't help because she was too busy laughing!  The whole dance was really funny!

My favourite activity was making ice cream.  We put all the ingredients into a churner with lots of ice and the whole time that we were doing the activities, the ice cream had to be churned so whoever was free did that.  We knew that the ice cream was getting ready because it kept getting harder to turn the handle.

After the activities were done, we went back downstairs for a snack before bedtime.  We ate popcorn and the ice cream that we had made.  It was the best vanilla ice cream that I have ever eaten!  After a quick story, we went to sleep.  We were all very tired.

The next morning, we had to pack up our gear first and make sure that we did not forget anything.  The bakery at Heritage Park made our breakfast and we got to eat fresh and hot pastries, muffins, and sausage rolls.  There was also fruit, yogurt, and juice but the sausage rolls were my favourite.  Before leaving the park, we had time for a scavenger hunt and we went around the town finding clues and answering questions.

It was a great sleepover, and we all had a lot of fun.  I'm going back again in October and I can't wait!

Spring Break - part 3

Hello!  In my last blog, I ended it with unpacking in Mexico.  After we unpacked, we went down to the snack bar near the pool.  At the snack bar, I ate mac-n-cheese, fries and carrots.  I wanted to go in the pool, but my mom said that we had had a long day and we should get some sleep.  I was a little sad because I couldn’t swim right away, but we had seven days of vacation left.

After we got ready for bed, I sat out in the balcony and watched the birds fly; it was so amazing. As I went in, I started to feel really sleepy. I got in to bed and took off my glasses and went to sleep. That was my first sleep in Mexico! In the morning my dad woke my sister and I up by moving the curtains so the sun was shining on our faces. We woke up groaning as the sun felt like cooked eggs on our foreheads. I quickly got dressed because today we were going to the pool!

When we got to the pool I jumped in and came right out because the water was freezing. Then my sister came and pulled me in. I was really scared but I remembered to hold my breath. After that the water started to get warmer. I started to swim and after about half an hour of swimming I got out and went to the beach. It was my first time at a beach! I played in the waves and… got completely wet! Good thing there were showers at the beach! I got off all the sand and we went back to our room.

We had buffet dinners every night and watched a different show each day.  In the morning, it was swimming and the beach, every day.  We spent a whole week doing only this and it was great!  This was the best Spring Break ever!  I can’t wait to go back every year and spend a whole week in sunny Mexico!    

Spring Break Part 2

Ola!  In my last blog, I ended with my mom,sister and I arriving in Vancouver. At the Vancouver airport, we meet my dad! I was really happy to see him. It had been three months since I saw him last.  After hugging him a lot, we went to eat at the food court in the airport. My sister and I got ice cream,then we chatted a bit while eating our food before we went though security. While waiting, my sister and I had a drawing contest. She won most of them. After a bit of ice cream I looked out side the window and saw three planes land and take off!

Then we went through security.  The Vancouver security is like the Calgary airport except that it is in Vancouver. After we got through security, we waited to board the plane. It felt like days of waiting and then finally we got onto the plane. My mom,sister and I were in zone three but my dad was in zone five. So my dad sat in front of us on the plane. When we were on the plane it took FOREVER until someone on the speaker said " Please prepare for take off and please put on your seat belts.  Thank you" and then they talked about all the safety stuff such as the life jacket under our seat and how to put on a breathing mask if we need it.

A few minutes later we took off! This flight was four and a half hours long. That was way,way longer then the flight from Calgary to Vancouver. I looked out of the window and an hour later I fell asleep. When I woke up, we were in Mexico! Mexico looked really cool from the plane. This time the landing didn't hurt my ears as much as the last landing. When we arrived at the airport the people there were so nice and there were pictures of dolphins were and nice restaurants. Then we went ou side and got directions to where the bus was waiting to take us to the hotel! The bright sun was making me feel really hot by then!

We got to the bus and put our luggage in a cool little compartment under the bus. On our drive to the hotel we saw lots of different types of cacti. That was so cool! I hadn't seen any cacti before I went to Mexico. The hotel looked amazing. Inside, we signed in and got wrist bands.  The kids' wrist bands said No Alcohol but the adult wrist bands didn't say that. Then my mom and dad got a tour of the hotel and then we went to our room and unpacked.

Mexico was going to be awesome!!!!!!!!!! 
                                                                 

Spring Break - Part 1

Ola, it's me, Aanya.

I went to Mexico for Spring Break.  The place I went to in Mexico is called Cabo San Jose.  It is such an awesome place.  It is very hot and there's only a slight breeze in the evenings.  When I left Calgary, it was still so cold, and I was very happy to be in the sun.

I liked going to the airport in Calgary.  It was very early in the morning and there were not very many people there.  My mom, sister, and I only had a couple of bags each and we could carry them ourselves.  The first thing we did was find out information about our flight from a screen.  There was a bit of a wait for checking in and more people started to arrive.  We were so thirsty that we had to buy water but we had to finish it before we reached security.  This was no problem for my sister, but it was really hard for me to do.

Before we checked in, we had to see if our luggage could fit in the measuring bins.  My suitcase did, but my mom and sister had to check their suitcases in.  The backpack and purse were fine and we carried them to the plane with us.  It was really cool to see how the machine took the suitcases away so that they could be put on the plane in a separate compartment.

At security, we all had to put everything that we were carrying into a x-ray machine.  We also had to walk through a metal gate.  After that, there was a lot of waiting.  I got bored while waiting to board the plane...ha, ha, ha!

We did get on the plane with so many other people and found our seats. I sat by the window with my sister next to me, and my mom sat just behind us.  A bit more of waiting and then...TAKE OFF!  It was a short flight to Vancouver, where we would have to change planes.  There was a screen in the seat in front of me and I spent the whole time watching Moana, and some tv shows.

I loved being on a plane.  The last time I flew, my mom told me that I was very small and I can't remember that.  The only thing that I didn't like, was the landing at Vancouver airport.  My ears were hurting for some time before we landed and I was crying a little bit.

I was very happy when we reached Vancouver because of two things.  We were almost in Mexico, but I was most happy to see my dad, who was meeting us in Vancouver.

Destination Conservation Team

Two weeks ago on Monday, I went on a  Destination Conservation field trip. Destination Conservation is a team of students from different grades that think of ways to make their school green. My Destination Conservation team only has eight students. For the field trip we went to Beddington Elementary School. I had a super awesome time there.😃

At Beddington school we made name tags and settled in; then a woman gave us an enormous piece of paper.  On that paper we needed to write a short little song that had something to do with what our school did and our song is: 🎜 If you go down Barrett Drive you will see our compost bins. Do not throw you snack wrappers out. If we recycle everybody wins. Remember to reuse; the environment is for everyone. D-R-C-O-F-F-I-N(I-N); Dr Coffin cares.🎜

The second thing we did was to make a chart with these categories:  MAKE IT, MOVE IT, USE IT. and LOSE IT. My group was MAKE IT. We got an item and we had to figure out how it was made, by only looking at the ingredients.🍲

The last thing we did was plan what we will do next.  Then we  made waste-less lunches and also made an antibacterial soap spray. We went back to our school on the Dream Wagon, which is what the bus was called.🚌

                          

And the Bronze Goes to Aanya!!!

Yesterday I went to a Taekwon-Do tournament. The tournament was at Arden's Taekwon-Do.
I thought is was exciting and awesome. I loved it so, so, so, so much.

It worked like this. One division did their patterns and when they finished they went and put on their sparring gear while the next division did their patterns, and so on. But there were different belts so the lower belts always went first. The lowest belts are yellow belts and green stripes. The next ones up are green belts and blue stripes, and the higher ones are blue belts and red stripes. The highest levels are red and black belts and they went last.

The patterns were done in a particular way and the sparring had its own way of working too. Two people went up at a time and were given two colours; red and blue.  Both did their patterns and then the judges decided who was better and that person moved to the gold and silver round.  The person who came third in patterns got a bronze, and that was me!

For the sparring, the referee would tie a blue or red ribbon to each person's belt.  This helped the judges to decide between the two people sparring.  You have to stop sparring every time there is a warning or a foul.  The higher the contact on the body, the more points you get, so you get the highest point which is three, if you hit the other person's head.  If you get three warnings, you lose one point.  Warnings happen if you fall down, or one of your feet is not touching the sparring ring floor, or if you push someone.  Even if you do a really good kick but it hurts someone, you don't get that point.  There are a lot of rule for sparring!  You also have to be super careful because there can be lots of injuries.  Even with all of these rules, I came third and got another bronze!

When I got my medal, I had to stand on the lowest step of a podium.  The silver winner stood on the next highest level, and the gold winner was at the top.

My favourite part of the tournament was watching the Black Belts.  They were awesome!

I loved this day so much that I can't wait to be part of the next tournament!

Family Day Weekend

During my Family Day weekend I did two things. The first thing that I did was that my family and I went to IHOP on Saturday. IHOP is a restaurant and you can order some really good food. The food there is really filling.  It was so filling that I couldn't finish a bowl of Mac and Cheese! IHOP also has really yummy milkshakes. I had a vanilla milkshake and so did my sister. My mom had a chocolate milkshake. IHOP was so busy!  There seemed like there were 100 people there!

When we were going to leave my sister and I donated some money to a foundation to help children and we got to write our names on a balloon. The staff at IHOP will pin the balloon on the wall. The wall allows them to put push pins in it. Then when we come back we will be able to see the balloon we wrote on and other balloons like ours. I think that it is really cool that people can write their names and others can see who donated money. I really liked IHOP and I hope that we can go back there.

The second thing I did was go to Flying Squirrel today. It was so awesome!!  I loved it!! The place had trampolines, foam pits, arcade games and a rope swing. There was also a dodgeball court, and a ninja obstacle course. There is a candy machine and a place where you can buy food. There are a lot of rules to follow so you need to pay attention to the TV that shows you all the rules during the long wait to pay and get in.

I did all the stuff with my sister and we took videos of me doing tricks and flips. Then we sent them to my mom's phone. My sister gave me challenges to do and I did all of them right! It was so amazing that I can't wait until Good Friday because that is when we are going to go back to Flying Squirrel.

I LOVED FAMILY DAY SO MUCH!!!

                 

My First Vacation Ever

Last week I found out that my family and I are going to go to Mexico for Spring Break.  I am so excited!  I have not been on a vacation ever.  I came to Canada when I was 1 year old and I haven't gone anywhere since.

I have always wanted to go to the beach and now I can do that.  I am going to sit by the sea and make lots of sandcastles.  I have to remember to take my bucket and spade.

There will also be a swimming pool at the hotel and I think that I will spend most of the day there.  I also want to show my family my somersaults in the water.  I heard that there is a snack bar right in the pool and I can't wait to swim up to it and eat something!  I should take a few swimsuits also.

There is also a kids club and I can't wait to meet new friends.  I don't know what activities there will be but I am excited anyway.

We will be gone for a whole week; that is seven whole days.  My mom says that we will arrive back very late in Calgary and I have school the next day.  Oh no!  I will be so tired!  I will still get to go on vacation and see the ocean, and I am very happy about that.

I will write more about the vacation when I get back.

Happy Birthday to my Friend

Today I went to my friend's birthday party. The party was at Crock-a-Doodle. That place is a pottery place. I painted a baby octopus. It looks really cute. The birthday girl painted a plate. She drew a baby Micky Mouse on her plate. That also looks really cute. The birthday girl's friend from her school painted a puppy. The eyes are really, really, really good. She is really talented at drawing eyes.



She also became my friend. We talked about Minecraft and other games. She is also really funny; her knock-knock jokes are so good. At the end of the party we had chocolate cake and cupcakes. The cupcakes had little baby Disney characters on a stick on top of them. We also got goody bags. I got a Kit Kat, Coffee Crisp, lollipop, and a sketch book. We will also be getting our pottery paintings in five days.



                                                                 

                                                    I LOVE BIRTHDAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                                             

I'm Falling Apart!!!!!!!

On January 10th 2017, I went to the dentist.  My doctor is Dr. Barsky.  I was there for a checkup and to get my teeth vitamins.  For my vitamins I get to choose a flavor.  I chose Vanilla and Orange.  It was the first time I chose that flavor.  That flavor didn't taste too bad, but I like Strawberry and Bubblegum a little bit better.  The flavor that I chose was also very cool.

At my dentist, you get to choose a prize and toothbrush.  I got a honeycomb lip balm and a non-electric purple and blue toothbrush.  My toothbrush really helps me to get to the gum line of my mouth.  My electric toothbrush hurts my gum line.  It hurts because the bristles move very fast.

I also got a goody bag.  Inside it there were my toothbrush and lip balm.  I also got some dental floss and a mini treasure chest that said Tooth Saver.  It is pink and it is for putting your tooth in for the Tooth Fairy.  Inside was my tooth!  My dentist pulled out one of my wiggly teeth!  Dr. Barsky grasped my tooth and pulled it out.  It was so fast that I didn't feel anything.  Dr. Barsky put gauze in the tooth hole and I had to bite down on it.  That made the tooth hole clean but it also felt uncomfortable.  I love going to the dentist!  

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I Found Out That I Am Going To Go To Flying Squirrel

Yesterday I found out that we are going to go to Flying Squirrel. On my other blog post, I Want To Go To Flying Squirrel, you will know how much I want to go. I am going on Family Day. I can't wait for that long, but on Family Day we will go at 11;00am. At Flying Squirrel they have rock climbing, foam pits, wall to wall trampolines and arcade games. That makes me so excited to go there and stay for awhile.


Some of my friends went to Flying Squirrel. They said it was awesome so I really want to go. Flying Squirrel is like the Flip Factory, except that you don't do flips. I think Flying Squirrel will be just as awesome. When I go to Flying Squirrel I don't think I will want to leave. That is what my friends said. When I start, I don't know what I will do first. I also don't know if I can stop. I can't wait to go.


I think my Mom might have to drag me out of Flying Squirrel. I will probably talk about it nonstop on the ride back home. I will not be able to stop talking about it for a long time, and I will tell my friends that I went to Flying Squirrel and it was awesome. 


I CANNOT WAIT UNTIL I GO TO FLYING SQUIRREL!   


        

Christmas day

On Christmas day I woke up at 7:00am. I woke  everyone up by yelling "It's Christmas" over and over again. When everyone was awake we started opening presents by looking in our stockings first. In my stocking my favorite thing was a packet biscuits from India. I also loved the chocolates that were in my stocking. One of my favorite presents was a black note book. I also like my new Absolute Dance sweat shirt Santa gave me.

The presents were in a cool order. The ones in the candy cane wrapping paper were my uncle's. The presents in the striped wrapping paper were my sister's. The presents in the igloos were my dad's. My mom's were wrapped in the snowmen were my mom's and the presents in the polar bear and penguins were mine. I think that is a really cool way to sort presents. In my biggest box were the black boots I wanted. They were not Uggs, but they were cool. I wore my new boots the first day I went out somewhere after Christmas.

On Christmas I got an advent calendar so I started eating the chocolates on Christmas and shall keep going throughout January. On my advent calendar each little piece of chocolate has a picture on it. On my first chocolate there was a flower and on my second one there was a Christmas tree. Everyday I eat one chocolate. I haven't had one today yet but I will soon. One of my favorite pictures on a chocolate was a fish.

I loved my Christmas so much. I can hardly wait until the next one. I know it is a year away but I just love Christmas a lot. I hope you really enjoyed your Christmas as much as I did and if you don't celebrate Christmas I hope had a awesome day and I hope you all enjoy your break off work and school.