Softball season has started!

Softball season has started for Spring 2011! I am on a team called the Tornadoes. This is my fifth season playing softball! My team won the first game we played on Saturday. We played against the Screaming Eagles. It was a good game. 

I like playing on a team because it's fun and you learn to work with other people. Being on a team means you can learn to rely on other people to help you, and you learn to help other people on your team. I like playing softball this season most of all because I am getting better at batting, catching and throwing. My mom said that I have improved so much since last season! When I first started playing I couldn't even catch a ball or hit it. Now I hit almost every pitch! I can catch pop flies and I can catch a fast pitch without a problem! In this season I am mostly playing third base. Last season I played second. I like to play third base better because I get more outs at the base and I can get the other team player out going home. It's very exciting when I get an out or stop a runner from going home! 

My friend got a double play on Saturday. That is when you get two people out in one play. It was very cool to watch! 

I like my coaches, too. They are very nice and I am learning a lot this season. I can't wait to play again on Saturday! 

Travelling in Covered Wagons

I made a video where I talk about a story I read where a family travels with other families in a covered wagon across 2,000 miles. The journey is hard and they can only start out on the journey at a certain time of year. They cannot travel on the Oregon Trail during the winter because of snow and not a lot of food. It is especially hard for the children because many of them have to walk almost the entire way! I cannot imagine having to walk 2,000 miles. It takes about 5 months to complete the trip. That is a long time. I am glad that we have a better and faster way to get around now.

My journey across country in a wagon. 

I'm selling Girl Scout Cookies!

I have been too busy to post a blog because my mom and I are out trying to sell cookies so my troop can pay for our camping trip and everything we want to do next year. I am working hard and my mom says I am doing a good job. If you see me in town ask me about cookies and I can sell you some!

Annie and Alex, Smooth Criminals

I love to dance and sing. It's one of my favorite ways to express myself when I am feeling silly. I feel silly a lot. I hope you like this dance to Smooth Criminals. This is my brother Alex in the video with me. He has a blog too! Alex's Excellent Adventure.

Videos by me...

I am so excited! I got my new hamster! I have made a few videos over the past few weeks. I would like to share them with you now. Also, there are a few of pictures from the Funky Paintbrush and from the Father-Daughter dance last night. Enjoy!

Have a great weekend! 

Creative Composing...

In Girl Scouts we are a working on our Creative Composing Try-it. I am going to the Funky Paintbrush with my troop. We are going to take a painting class! I like painting stuff because it's cool and you can make your own creations. I would like to paint a wonderful, magical world. My magical world would have green grass, dragons (that are nice), bears, pretty flowers, and fairies. I would paint my Girl Scout troop into the picture. We would all be fairies wearing our Brownie vests. We would be growing flowers and we would all have power over the weather. Jenardre would have power over the rain. Kimberly would have power over the wind. Kyleigh would have power over the snow. Calynn would have power over thunder-storms. Mia would have power over lighting. Mia and Calynn are twins so they would need power that works together. I would have power over sunshine. Together we would make a beautiful magical garden.

That is what my painting would look like.

Annie on the subject of girl scouts

Being silly together

My mom, brother, sister and I are being silly and singing one of our favorite songs.

Annie on getting a new hamster

I wanted to take a video this time about how I am getting a new hamster. This time I plan to get a black bear hamster. I have to wait two weeks because the pet store only has babies. Watch my video!

the beach

I want to share another poem with you. This one is called The Beach.

The Beach

by Annie

At the beach I

put my feet in the sand

the crabs go by,

the seashells are shining

and the wales are big.

the beach

Creative Composing...

In Girl Scouts we are working on our Creative Composing try-it. My mom is the leader of my troop. She gave out little composition books yesterday and told us to create anything we wanted, stories, songs, drawings, poems... Mom said, just to write about whatever is on our minds. She said that she wants our writings to be creative and original. I wrote a few poems and I thought I'd share just one of them.

Mother Nature

by Annie - age 8

I put my feet between the grass

as the sun shines across the sky

As the flowers grow and the bees fly

carrying pollen as they go by.

Let the leaves grow on the trees

thank you, Mother Nature for all of these.

Sorry I've been gone.

Yesterday I started a new school that meets one day a week. My brother and I are taking two classes together and I am taking one by myself. In my second class the teacher mixed my name up and made me leave the class! She sent me to another class because she thought I was not on her roster. So I didn't actually take Spanish the first day. My mom was mad about that. In my third class, Beyond Beautiful Girlhood, I learned how to be beautiful on the inside as well as outside. Being a beautiful girl has nothing to do with how you look on the outside, it is how you feel and how you are on the inside. If you are a good person who is nice and kind, you are beautiful.

I am really sad that my hamster died. We are having a funeral for her on Saturday. I miss her. I don't like talking about it because I loved her so much. Goodbye, Henrietta. :(

That's all for now, have an awesome adventure!

I had nothing to write about today....

So I made a video instead! lol

I am excited about Saturday.

My friend Jenardre is having a birthday party on Saturday. I am invited to sleep over. We are going to paint nails, watch movies, eat popcorn, and sleep in sleeping bags. We are going to be watching Tangled. I haven't seen that movie yet so I am looking forward to it. Jenardre is one of my best friends. She is in my Brownie troop. I see her on Brownie meetings. We do lots of fun stuff. She has spent the night at my house many times and I've spent the night with her. She has a very cute baby sister. I can't wait for our sleepover. I am posting a video of the last Brownie meeting we had. We sang to Jenardre and had cupcakes because our meeting was on her birthday!

My Great Snow Adventure!

This week was fun. We got a lot of snow. I made snowmen with my brother. we made six snowmen to represent the family. We made snow angels, had a snowball fight, we played in the woods, and we got stuck in a big hill of snow! We couldn't see the hole because of the snow. It was funny. My mom and dad didn't try to leave the neighborhood for days. The roads were so frozen! It would be too dangerous.

Next week, I will be starting a new class on Tuesdays. My brother and I will be taking two classes at the home school co-op in town. I am taking Spanish and Beyond Beautiful Girlhood. Mom says that the class is about little girls learning to be women. This school sounds really fun. There will be lots of other kids there and we can go once a week.

Fun in the snow!

SNOW!

Skateboarding...how it's done

My Dogs

My dogs are the best pets I ever had. Scout is black and white. He is 9 years old and the oldest of the two dogs. He's my favorite. He is a Border Collie/lab mix. Wally is a white Shi zu. He is two years old. They are very protective of the family. Any time anyone comes into the yard they bark to warn us! One time we forgot to close our front door all the way and we left the house for a while. Scout got out of the house and when we got back he was sitting protectively on the front porch. It was very funny!

I hope to always have a pet dog! Life without a dog would be boring.

If I were a wolf...

If I were a wolf I would howl at the moon. I would hunt for food like deer and rabbits. I would live in a large pack. I would have lots of babies and protect my family.

I would play with my family and the other wolves in the pack. I would have lots of friends. I would share everything with my pack.

I would love my territory and it would be big. The best part about being a wolf is I would not have to go to school and I would not have to get a job. I would love being a wolf! Life would be hard but exciting!

GAME ON!

We have a game tomorrow. The game is Multiplication facts. This is how you play:

First, mom reads the card and whoever answers the question correctly first, mom lays the card in front of them in a pile. Whoever gets the most questions right is the winner! The winner gets to draw a folded piece of paper from a bag that has different prizes in it. One example of a prize is a pizza party for Alex and I on Friday. We have our first game tomorrow! If I win I hope to draw out the pizza party! I love pizza!

GAME ON!!

What I think about my family

This picture has nothing to do with today's blog, but I like it. It's very funny. :)

I have a big family! I two moms, two dads, 6 brothers, and 1 sister! That's a lot. We don't all live together. My dad lives with my step-mom Reema and brother Ayaan. I live with my mom, step-dad Max, two brothers and one sister. My other brothers live with their moms.

Here are my brothers and sisters, and what I think of them:

Nick- He is a very nice brother. He is the oldest. I think he is 22 now. He is now a police officer like my daddy. He is really tall. The girls think he is handsome. I think he is very funny. He played football and was very good. When I was a baby, I called him Shoo-shoo...well, I still do sometimes.

Anthony- He is a very nice brother. He is 18, I think. I'm not sure. He is also tall and handsome. He plays sports just like my other brother, Nick. He is a senior in high school and he will go to college soon. He is also very funny. My mom tells me funny stories of things he did when he was younger. Mom says he was a very good kid. She also told me he got into a lot of trouble for silly things. I call him Bro-bro.

Ayaan- He is five years old. He is very funny also. He reads books by guessing at the pictures. He likes to dance and rap. We fight a lot, but that's just what brothers and sisters do, I guess. Ayaan doesn't celebrate Christmas- we have other holidays instead. His mom is Pakistani, so a lot of the things we do over there are things she does. It's fun.

Liam- He is my little brother. He is three. I don't know him as well as my other brothers. I haven't seen him in a very long time. He is handsome like my daddy, he is funny, and he is smart. He looks like me. I'd like to see him again very soon.

Alex- He is my age. We are almost like twins- only not really. We fight a lot. We live together all the time, so I guess that's why. I think Alex is very handsome, too. He has very blue eyes that are beautiful. He loves to build things with his LEGOs and play cars. We like to play in the woods together in our tree-house, which isn't really a house or in a tree, but that's what we call it. We like to ride bikes and skate boards together. He makes me laugh a lot. I love him very much. Even when we don't get along.

Teddy- He is two. He is very cute. He loves to play with Alex and me. He thinks he is a big boy and can do everything we do. Sometimes he can. He calls his food "Foffees," which I think is cute. He takes very long naps. Sometimes I wish he wouldn't so I can play with him. He calls his special blanket, "night-night." He cannot go anywhere without it! It's very funny when we have to take it everywhere.

Danielle- She is 15. I think she is very pretty. She hangs out with her friends a lot and I wish I could hang out with them, too. She says I'm too little. I guess that's true. She likes to watch t.v. in her room. We fight sometimes, but not a lot. I like when she and I play with my hamster, Henrietta. I like when she braids my hair. She likes music, clothes, and make-up. She likes the color yellow and pink.

I have a big family, I love them very much!

My hero is...

My dad is my hero. He is a cop. He helps people and helps me by arresting criminals. If my dad didn't work so hard to keep us safe, criminals would be able to break the law without rules. When we are at home, he makes sure I play safely. My dad takes me for walks and talks with me. He feeds me, his food is delicious! He is always there for me! Thank you dad, for being my hero!