Silken Dollar (or The Amazing Presley)

I want to teach you a magic trick I learned. Things you will need:

1. A fake thumb,

2. Red handkerchief,

3. An audience with money, and

4. An assistant.

What you do when you are not in sight is put the handkerchief in the fake thumb. Next, put the thumb on. When performing, ask the assistant to bring a dollar bill or ask the audience {don't forget to give it back!} Then, wrap the dollar bill around the fake thumb. Slide the thumb down while holding the dollar. Now, pull the handkerchief out of the thumb and you did it! Abracadabra, frogs and toads (magic words!) You can use the thumb to hide the food you don't want to eat at dinner, too.

Meatball Sub

Today, I had my first meatball sub. It was delicious. It had large meatballs, sauce and cheese. It tasted like spaghetti on a bun without the spaghetti. I would recommend it to anyone. You can get them at most Italian restaurants and some sub places, but they might not taste the same. I wonder if anyone makes a macaroni and cheese sub.

80s Video Reviews

"Safety Dance" - Men Without Hats
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcOZ6xFxJqg
I like this song. You can sing it as soon as you listen to it once and it makes you want to dance. Can you make a big "S" with your hands? It's one of the moves. You put one of your hands on the top and the other on the bottom and freeze. The singer is parading around with a bunch of freaks, trying to make people do the safety dance. Es, es, es, es, ay, ay, ay, ay . . .

"Come On Eileen" - Dexy's Midnight Riders
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXLHUThBib8
There's a town where everyone wears overalls and looks like they never have taken a shower. A guy has some friends trying to get this lady named Eileen. Her friend is saying "Come on Eileen". The guy and his friends are saying "Come on Eileen". She doesn't know what to do, I guess, but she goes with her friend instead. Later the guy catches her. I like the song and video, but I don't like that they are all dirty.

"Girls Just Want To Have Fun" - Cyndi Lauper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mft3_A6qtRA
A girl {teenaged} was supposed (spost) to be home, but she was dancing in the road. She came and danced around her mother in the kitchen, got yelled at by her father and called up all her friends. They all got into floppy dresses and danced all around town in the streets. They caught some cute boys and went back to her house. They piled into her room and partied. I love this song and the video. Girls DO just want to have fun.

Bugs

I learned about bugs in a book called "The Insect World." I learned about termites. The queen termite lays all the eggs. The king rules. Some termites are born to be guards. They look different and they don't eat much or sleep much.

Bees live most differently than those termites. They don't have a king - only a queen. The queen stings her royal sisters to death! When a bee finds a flower patch he will go back home and do a dance to tell the other bees where it is.

Caterpillars turn into butterflies. That is called a "metamorphosis" ("medomorfus"). What happens is the caterpillar gets in a cocoon and it comes out a butterfly. Magic! Well under the skin on a caterpillar is a butterfly. They shed their skin.

Did you know a wasp or yellow jacket or hornet - only the female stings or sucks blood?

An ant city is weird. There is only a queen. The guards are nice when another bug comes and says it's hungry and can't find food. They toss out some food for them. Did you know an ant talks with it's antennae?

I'm not going to talk about spiders. Creepy!!! I know a few things about bugs and one thing is that I don't like them. They make me run and my daddy has to kill them.

Happy Birthday!

Today is my 8th birthday. I am having a giant birthday party with my friends. I have a huge Spongebob cake. I miss being 7, but 8 is great!

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I heard a joke I would like to tell you. Why do numbers not like 7? Because 7 ate (eight) 9!

Happy Birthday to me!

The Lord's Prayer

In church, I am memorizing The Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6:9-13.

"Our Father in Heaven, hallowed be Your name.
Your kingdom come.
Your will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and glory forever. Amen."

It is important to remember this to make Jesus happy and for him to forgive us of our sins and for us to pray right. {Try to remember this by heart.} You have to pray because God doesn't have a cell phone or a mailbox or an e-mail address!

Bubby

My other grandma, Bubby (this is what I called her instead of grandma or Linda), died two years ago on March 9, 2007, right before I turned six. She was my dad's mom. As an angel, she did a lot of tricks to us the day of her funeral, like messing up my dad's glasses, busting my mom's necklace and just letting us know she was there.

She loved birds and birdhouses. When she died, I got some of her birdhouses. She took me to a Sesame Street show when I was two, I think. Whenever it comes to town now, I always enter the coloring contest. She died of cancer. She had to lose an eye and her hair, but she was still beautiful to me and I still loved her very much.

Today is a very sad day for all of my family and we miss her very much and love her very much. But she is in a good place now as a beautiful angel. {Bubby, I love you.}