Mia's Edventures: My Birthday has Finally Come!

For the weeks of Feb 4 & 11

parts were written on Feb 12, Feb 13, and Feb 15 (you'll probably be able to tell which!)

It's my birthday! It's my birthday! Uh hu! Uh hu! Tee-hee! Yes, my birthday has finally come! I had my family birthday celebration on Sunday. We had Donatos and cake. Then I opened presents! I got this super cool black and white leopard print travel bag from my aunt! Inside, was an epic, yes epic surprise. A super fashionable purple, and blue sparkly scarf, and a lip gloss case, with ten lip glosses in it! I wore the scarf on Sunday, and it looked and felt awesome. Another present I got was a box. Inside the box was tissue paper. Under the tissue paper was a piece of paper with words “this will be yours” and under that, a picture of the movie Rise of the Guardians! Then, in a smaller box, there was more tissue paper. Under that, was another paper and then, as I was opening up the paper, I saw our Theater logo. I looked up and said “I GET TO DO ****?!” **** is a theater program where you audition for one of four plays, practice for a few months, and then have two public performances. You also get to watch the other performances for free, so it's a win-win scenario. I was so happy!

After my birthday party, and the celebration on Sunday, my real birthday has come at last – it was Monday! I decided I wanted to go to this bouncy place. But since it wouldn't be very fun going alone, I asked A. to sleep over Sunday through Monday. Sunday night we played webkinz, watched Alpha and Omega on Netflix (Yes! We got Netflix!). We ate chocolate chip pancakes for my b-day breakfast!

When we got to the bouncy place, we went straight to the foam pit. It was an elevated platform, surrounded by trampoline walls, with trampoline floors on one end, and at the other, a deep pit entirely full of 12'' x 12'' x12'' foam blocks! We ran/jumped on the trampolines into the foam pit. It was unbelievably hard to get out! We struggled, pulled, pushed, and finally got out. Then we played in the dodge-ball trampoline room, after that it was on to the main court.

It was a long “room” where the walls and floors were trampolines. We bounced around for a while before wanting to jump off the walls. When we finally did jump off the walls, it was all we wanted to do. Then, off to the foam pit again. This time, we did the rope swing. You climb onto an elevated platform, and then hang on to a rope, and swing over the foam pit. Then, you let go. It took me even longer to get out of that one.

Baby was also with us, well, not with us, she was in the “little jumpers” area. Baby had her own foam pit which she liked to belly flop into. She called it her pool. So cute!

After our hour of play was up, we got McDonald's. When we got home, A. and I stayed in the car in the garage... after getting some webkinz. Then, we turned up the radio, ate McDonald's, and played with Webkinz. We screamed when the garage light went off. Then we turned on the car light. Pretty cool. But kinda scary. After a while, We got scared by the light turning off, the tennis ball appearing to smile at us, the shapes in the dark, and the ever-scary radio static. After a little trouble with opening the car doors, and trying-and failing-to turn the light on, we went inside.

Once inside, we played a game of Webkinz. I think we got bored, because it ended where the vampire bunny ate everyone. Lol. Oh well. Once A. left, Dad called and reminded me that I had theater that night. Mom made my special request - potato wedges.

At theater, I was a little late, but in time not to miss anything too important. They assigned certain people to lead certain warm ups at our showcase, and other people to say things about the warm ups and why we do them. The warm up I talk about is “channeling breath” and I say “the breath is the ocean that your voice boat sails on.” Ms. A had the idea, but couldn't put it into words, so I told her what she meant, and she assigned that line to me. We also went through our ensemble and group songs. We were told what to bring,as well. Finally, we assigned what order the monologues and songs went in. I forget where my monologue falls, but I know that my song-Colors of the Wind-is the finale. Yay! Kinda....

My Musical Theatre II Class

My head shot!

Today is Mardis Gras, and Mom just came home from the store with a doughnut for me!

Yay! HAPPY MARDI GRAS! Tonight, is my Valentine's cotillion! You’d think it would be the Mardi Gras Cotillion...oh well. I was going to sew a dress for it, but my sewing machine broke...so I guess that's out of the question. Lol.

Also last week was my first volleyball game day (it's every Friday now). I wasn't very good, but it was still lots of fun. Towards the end, the girls just talked and so the game kind of faded.

For history, geography, and literature, we're doing a big unit on Lewis and Clark's expedition. I made a salt dough map of the USA. It looks very realistic. I sculpted it and painted it. Here is a picture of me working on it & a video of the finished map:

Here are some videos of my pirogue project for geography:

A. stayed late after my birthday party so we could work on a project for school – a video about the 27 Amendments to the Constitution. At first, we thought about making a music video, but we were stumped with what song to do. Then we had the idea to make a Webkinz movie. We ended up with this (fyi - it's about 10 minutes long!):