First Communion

I made my first communion at church today!  Let me tell you, the wine and the bread are not that good.  They are just okay.  We got to taste them at our communion retreat day on Friday.  Some of the kids in my class made faces after tasting the wine.  But I didn't.  Like I said, it was okay...not good really or bad.

At the retreat we got to make bread ourselves too.  It was kind of plain to eat. And we decorated the banners on each row at church. We got to do with our parents and Mommy and Daddy helped me.

That is the row that we sat in and we were close to the front by where the choir sits.  I liked dressing up and wearing the veil.  It was fun to do it with my class.

 

Children's Museum Trip

On Spring Break we went to the Children's Museum in Indianapolis.  I never there before.  Mommy and Daddy said they went there when they were kids...not together but each of them went there.  You know what the building is because it has this huuuuuge dinosaur climbing on it.

There was a lot of cool stuff there.  They had Egyptian rooms and these old Chinese soldier things that you got to put together.  The scientists found a whole room of these soldiers in China and they had pictures of the real ones.  Oh yeah and they had a lot of dinosaur bones and skeletons.  And some rooms with dress up things that were kind of like Bellaboo's by Grandma's house.

It was a lot of fun things to play with. I even got my driver's license and a race car!

Daddy liked the water clock because he remembers it from when he was a kid.  You can tell time by how the water fills up the circles.  I watched it empty when it turned to a new o'clock.  It is a pretty cool clock. And next to the clock was a chocolate slide.  Here is a video of me and Daddy going down the slide.

Daddy Daughter Dance

Me and Daddy

Finally Some Snow

We didn't have any snow for Christmas but we finally got some snow this week. We had 2 snow days from school.  Actually, I only went to school 2 days this week!  Because we had Martin Luther King Jr Day off.  He was an important guy that made African Americans be free from having different schools and stuff.  So you don't have to go to school on his birthday, which was Monday.  Then it snowed on Wednesday and it snowed again on Friday for no school.

Me and Luci played outside in the snow.  Then today we went sledding.  There were a lot of people out sledding on the hill.  Aunt Sissy and Uncle Steven brought Rowan but he didn't stay out for too long. My friend Lyric met us there too.  There was a big bump on the hill that would bounce you in the air.  And some kids made a snowman at the bottom of the hill.  It was fun to finally have some snow.

Watch this video of me and Mommy going into the tree!

Christmas Eve Choir

 

Our children's choir sang at the Christmas Eve mass.  This is my friend Amelia sitting next to me.

And this is everybody being silly!

The first graders did the nativity play just like we did last year.  Last year I was an angel in the play.  This year I was in the choir. 

Flat Stanley

I had an assignment for school where I made Flat Stanley.  We had to have Stanley go somewhere around the world and take pictures.  Then we had to share with the class.  Mommy's Uncle Jim took my Flat Stanley to China!  Half way around the world!  Stanley got to ride on airplanes to California and then to China.

It looks like he had fun.  He saw all kinds of things in China.  Like buildings and a factory where they make clothes.  He even met a Chinese police man.  My Flat Stanley went further than anyone else in 2nd grade.  Thanks Uncle Jim!

First Reconciliation

 

 

I made my first reconciliation today.  I was a little nervous so Mommy waited with me in line. But it went fine when I got up to the priest.  It wasn't Father Eric though. It was another priest from another church who came to help.  Daddy joked that I didn't take long enough to tell my sins.  That wasn't nice! But I didn't have to tell every little thing.  Just the main things.  You do it so God will give you a second chance because he knows that we are not perfect. 

 

Now that is over.  I make my first communion in April.