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Not so Bare

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Landon had just finished playing with Dad’s air compressor. He had done something to release the pressure for a moment, and it had made a loud sound of air rushing out. Maria and John were getting their pajamas on, and I had just finished putting Joseph’s on. I was talking to Mom about how little things I have had to blog about recently, how funny and talkative my friends baby brother (who happens to be a couple months younger than Joseph) is. “Mom,” I said “I don’t have anything to blog about. My blog is very bare. Alexander used to keep me well supplied with funny things, but now he is going to turn four and doesn’t say so much innocently hilarious stuff anymore. Joseph can’t talk yet very well, so he can’t say funny things. (To Joseph) Joseph, why can’t you talk more like John?” (My friend’s baby brother’s name) I just continued on doing what I was doing, when a few minutes later the air compressor suddenly started going again. Joseph was fleeing from it in pure terror, screaming, “Mom! Mom! Mo-o-o-o-om!” All the way from the air compressor to Mom’s arms, with the air compressor going loudly. We got the air compressor stopped up, and Joseph wasn’t yet recovered from the scare. Mom said, “Who says he doesn’t do funny stuff? That was right on cue.” I replied, “I’m of to my blog!” I was thinking, ‘My blog isn’t so bare now.’

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Ballet at the End of March

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In my pre-pointe ballet class today, we started our learning a dance for the ballet recital in May. The music we are going to dance to is really beautiful. We haven’t gotten far into our dance yet, so I am waiting to see whether the dance is nice.

This week, I am taking a lot of extra grade two classes because on Friday I have an exam. A couple of older ballerinas, one of whom used to be a professional dancer, will watch me go through the exercises and write down corrections they have for me. These examiners are supposed to be really tough, so wish me luck on Friday.

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Happy Easter!

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‘This is the day the Lord has made!’ Well, he made it chilly, cold, muddy, and wintery. I have been packing people’s snow pants, hats, and mittens into the car for our Easter egg hunt at my Grandparents-on-Dad’s-side’s house after mass today.

Happy Easter to you!

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Geography Bee Test Results

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In late November, there was a geography bee, which I won. Because I won, in early January, I took a test to see if I qualified to get into the state Geography Bee. 5,500 winners of school level bees across South Dakota took this same test. Out of that number, 93 children got to to the South Dakota state bee. I was one of those 93. April fourth I go to Brookings, SD (about one hour from Sioux Falls) to participate in the South Dakota State Bee.

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First Robin

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This morning I was doing math, and I thought I heard the calling of a robin. I got up and went outside, and sure enough, it was a robin’s song. I couldn’t see the robin, but I clearly heard their unmistakable song. Hurray! Spring is soon going to arrive!

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First Tulip

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Today I noticed that my first tulip is up. It is a little red riding hood tulip, the rabbits favorite thing to eat, and I need to go to the nursery to get fox scent to try to keep them away.

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First Plant

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I went out to my garden and I saw that my columbine is beginning to send out some shoots. Columbine is very hardy and one of my favorite flowers, so I am glad to have it back. Welcome, spring!

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Forecasted: Spring!

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Wee! This week isn’t supposed to be terribly cold, around the 20-30 degree area. Saturday, however, is forecasted to be 40 degrees from one weather website, 43 from another, and a whopping 47 degrees from another! If it turns out that way, March comes in like a lamb this year. Oh, I hope it does. Sunday was nice, with sun, gentle wind, and a upper 30’s temperature. The first touches of spring in the winter are beginning to come.

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More Pictures of Clover

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Clover is warming up a bit to the family. She hasn’t bitten anyone hard yet, and she hasn’t made much noise. She still makes quite a fuss about being brought out of the cage though. We have fed her apple, orange, celery, grapes and raisins, and she really like orange and apple. In the pictures, you can see her gorgeous green back that shines in the light, one reason we named her Clover. She sits well on fingers, but if she feels like she is going to fall she tries to fly off. When you hold Clover to your chest, she likes to climb up your shirt and onto your shoulder and sit facing backwards. She doesn’t like sitting facing forward for some reason. She likes to climb into hoods, pockets, and under arms. We are trying to teach her to say, ‘You’re my favorite.’ by repeating it often to her. I like Clover, she is turning out to be a good little bird.

John Paul is always calling Clover by different names. Even though when we named Clover he said, “I love the name Clover!” he won’t call her by her name. He has called Clover Daniel, Popeye, Tarzan, and probably a couple other names I either haven’t heard, or can’t remember. Oh, John Paul.

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Clover

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Hurray! Today Dad took us to the pet store and we brought home a cute little bird. We have a nice little pet shop in town called the Ark that has lots of birds. Mom had been looking in to getting a bird, and the Ark happened to have the kind she wanted, a green-cheeked conure. Here is a good article about them Dad said yes, and so we piled into the car and went to the Ark. They had two green-cheeks, but one was a color mutation that didn’t look as nice in my opinion. So we bought the other green-cheek. It is very tolerant, and even though it is still scared of us, it lets everybody hold it without biting. We can’t tell if it is a boy or a girl without a DNA test, so we just decided to call it a girl since our Golden Retriever Isaiah and our Ragdoll cat Solomon were both boys. We named her Clover. I will post about her progress as she gets used to our family.

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