Thanks to my HHH’s help, Tatum is becoming a bender! Her body is moving in ways I can only feel in my back OUCH!
Then you have her brain…I’m trying to bend it a bit with our daily Scrabble play.
Her strategy is getting more complex! I love it.
Plus she is writing now more often again.
TODAY’S STORY:
This is a story about a girl named Ava. It all started in 1999 in a small town called Greenberg, when her mother went to fetch water from a stream.
You see the Martina family was poor. The father was a barber, the mom was a teacher (and pregnant), Oliver (a twelve year old boy) was a mower (a person who moans other people’s lawns), Elisabeth (a ten year old girl) was very good at sewing and often sold sweaters that she made, Ava (an adorable four year old) would sell poetry that she would write, and Sofia (a two month year old baby) would draw crowds of people to herself.
“Elisabeth could you please give me a hand with this pail of water? My stomach is getting too big for me to do it by myself,” Her mom asked emerging from the stream.
“Yes mama,” she said running down the hill. When she got there, she ripped her apron off and quickly grabbed the pail from her mom.
“Oh, thank you honey. The baby is starting to take control of my stomach.”
“No prob mama.” With that Elisabeth started to amble up the hill. When she got to the top, she saw her brother Oliver helping her little sister Ava with her doll.
“My doll’s head ripped off thanks to Sofia,” Ava sniffed.
“It’s going to be ok,” Oliver said putting his hand on her shoulder.
“Here,” Elisabeth said shoving the pail of water into his arms.
“I’ve got it from here.”
“What happened?” she asked hauling a log over to sit on.
“Well, it started like this, I went into Sofia’s room to grab a onesie for my doll. I set my doll down on her crib for a second and when I turned around my doll was in her mouth. I started to cry and then I quickly-sniff- grabbed my doll and -sniff- ran outside to find -sniff- mommy but-sniff- that’s when I ran into Ollie,” Ava said turning her hand over. There was a big dark blue, black, and purple spot on it.
“What happened?” she asked.
“You don’t -sniff- want to -sniff- know.”
To be continued
I LOVE HER BRAIN BENDERS!!! TOT you rock.