Setting Up the Christmas Tree
I woke up this morning, walked down stairs into the living room, and right before my eyes is a giant Christmas Tree with beads, lights, and ornaments, topped with an angel. Here's why:
Yesterday Mom worked for 6 hours. She works from home and takes calls for HSN. During most of this time period we brought up the 100-pound box of fake tree limbs, (Ok, not 100 lb.), we emptied the box and sorted each little tree-ish thing by letter. We spread out the little green things on the tree-branch-thing and put them into little holes on a stick wrapped in fake grass that was held into the ground. As we went up the stick, we wrapped lights around each little mat of tree branches. When we finished, we got a big box of ornaments and put them on the branches. I mostly did the ornaments I had made in the years before at school and church and stuff. At last, we crowned it with an angel. That's the Christmas tree, just wait until we decorate the whle house!

The Birkleigh in the Bed
Yesterday morning I went into my mom's room to ask if the coffee was ready. I didn't see her so I started to turn away. As I did this, a big fluffball appears in the cornor of eye on the bed where Mom sleeps. I turned back to look directly at "it" and I saw that it was Birkleigh! He looked so funny, too! After I had seen him clearly, he laid down on Mom's pillow and put his body under the covers. He's a weird dog...

Birkleigh's Bathtime
One day I'll be walking and my feet will fly above my head I will hit the ground painfully... That dog is so HYPER when he gets a bath. He's like the roadrunner that the coyote is always chasing! When Birkleigh is wet, he runs all through the house jumping on chairs and running into my feet (which makes me trip.). He had a bath last night and I couldn't even see him! All I saw was a blur with a toy.