My mother is very good when she draws. She works at Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine. I love my mom because she is very helpful.

She was born in the nineteen thousands. She had her first child in 1999, September 14th. And her next one was June 7th, 2001. Her last one was May 14th, 2003.

She married Brent Jason Danley who she met, I think, in college. She married him a few years before her first child. She changed her last name in 2009 from Danley to Uhler.

She is very special because she is just like me in many ways. I am interested in the human body. And she teaches me lots of interesting things about her social studies for work.

I think my dad will never want to break up with her because he acts like he really likes her.

I love having her around.

My mom is fantastic at cooking. Especially the grilled cheese sandwiches. She cooks almost everything.

I love my mom.

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Jenna: What is your favorite zoo animal, and why?

Skye: Bat.
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Kirsten: Where is your favorite place to go to visit in Maine?

Jenna: Trails in the forest.
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Families are for keeping yourself protected. Families love each other. Parents are especially made for keeping you safe.

Families are the most fun to play with. Families aren’t just the people you live with, they include cousins, uncles, aunts, grandfathers, and grandmothers. People out of your family can’t be your twin.

A non-grown-up boy who is in your family is called your son or brother. A non-grown-up girl who is in your family is called your daughter or sister. An adult male who is in your family is called dad or daddy or father. An adult female is called mum (aka mommy, aka mother, aka mom).

They help each other and love each other. Families touch you in good ways and sometimes mean ways: they can wrestle, hug, kiss, slap on the back, high five and other ways.

Pets are part of your family.

Sometimes the families have silly names (e.g. Silly Family, Short Family, Yucky Family…funny things like that).

I like that families work together like a team.

If I didn’t have a family right now I would not have a house and food. And the most important, I could be lonely and sad.

I’m glad I have a family.

The girls’ artwork is current on exhibition at the Saco Museum. We visited yesterday morning. It was our first time at the museum.

Hayley made a stuffed fish in her art class. It’s isn’t a fish you could filet and eat for dinner. Nor could it swim in the ocean. It’s mostly made of paper. They drew with oil crayons over the paint. With the red crayon Hayley made lipstick. Then they cut out fish shapes, stapled the edges together and stuffed them with newspaper.

Hayley's stuffed fish (with lipstick)

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This morning, before meeting Kirsten for lunch at the hospital, we went to the Children’s Museum of Maine. We arrived thirty minutes before opening so we killed time drinking hot chocolate at Starbucks.

Enjoy.

Our precious Hayley

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My ideal pet would be a goldfish because I like watching fish swim around in tanks. I like goldfish because my favorite color is gold.

I would get a rectangular tank because they have more space than other tanks.

I would name my fishes Goldie, Charm and Swimmer.

Yesterday we had Festibond. For breakfast we went to Eggspectations. I had bacon and scrambled eggs with cheddar cheese on top. It was delicious.

We came back late so we didn’t have lunch. We gathered our presents and started reading letters and giving presents to each person. Dad said our present is coming late; Mom said they are giving us a microscope. When we went shopping on Friday, Mom and I stopped to look at a microscope. Mom told me, “We will get one of those for you girls someday.”

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My friend Hayley came over to play at my house. She is in my class.

Hayley, my sister, always wanted to play with other stuff. That was nice of her not to bother us. We were fine until my friend Hayley lost her mom’s pin. We did not find it so she was grumpy.

We had a snack. Hayley had a few pretzels. My little sister Hayley had pretzels and a graham cracker. I had some pretzels, too. And a graham cracker.

I showed Hayley my mp3 player. She told me she has a Hannah Montana mp3 player.

Skye came in. She, Hayley and I played the Super Monkey Ball II on the Game Cube.

Her mom came to pick her up shortly after we started playing the Game Cube. Hayley had to go.

We had a lot of fun.

Harry Potter

I read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling. I read this book because I thought it would be interesting.

I liked that Harry was brave. He tried to save the Sorcerer’s Stone from Voldemort. Voldemort is evil. I also liked it because, at the end, Harry helps Gryffindor get more points than Slytherin to win the House Cup. I like Hermione because she is smart, pretty and nice.

The book was different from the movie because the movie scared me more than the book.

I think someone else would like this book because it was cool and fun to read.

I read this at home.