I had a great surprise at 8:50am... I had just arrived at school, not even having time to take off my seat belt when Barbara's phone rang... it was Mimz!  She was calling to see how I was.  I told her it was freezing outside and that yesterday we did not have school because the weatherman predicted bad driving conditions.   As it turns out he was wrong.  It was cold but we only had a bit of sleet for a short time.

 Mimz sent me this picture of her ship.

 She was in St. Maarten when she called me.

Mimz was getting ready to go swimming on this beach.  She will be back Saturday and I plan to go to the airport with Daddy to pick her up.

We did get to play outside and we had to wear our heavy coats.  All of us kids were excited about pajama party tomorrow.  The school sent home a paper to remind parents, but there is no way, I would forget to wear a pair of pajamas to school tomorrow!

As soon as I got home, I very nicely apologized to GGM for my unwillingness to say I was sorry for hurting her by throwing a ball at her face.  I sometimes get embarrassed and defensive when I am reprimanded.

I was thrilled to find two new rubber balls, one orange, and one dark blue, waiting in the living room for us to have lots of fun with.  GGM and I tossed both balls up the staircase and caught them when they returned.

I convinced both Barbara and GGM that we should rebuild Car Town.  We got started and will keep working on it.  I practiced my golf putting.  Barbara and I practiced fencing.  And we all played Keep Away for a long time.

 Monk Monk has been bald for a  month or so....

  I want to take him to school tomorrow, so he finally got some new bright red hair.

I took my new orange ball home with me.  I have several balls at home, so I might bring this one back, if I don't need it at home.  I have a purple, light blue, dark blue, green and pink rubbers balls at Barbara's and we play with every one of them.  GGM thinks you can not have too many balls... and I agree with her.

I am always up to something besides normal standing and sitting.  I keep everyone entertained with the things I find to do.

A Boy Scout we know is working to become an Eagle Scout.  His project is to gather 500 stuffed animals to give to policeman so they will have something to help comfort children that might find themselves in a squad car.  I am giving him these animals for his project.

I rarely forgot to ask GGM if I may have a piece of gum.  She allows me to have one piece of sugarless gum a day.  I sometimes put it back on the gum wrapper to finish chewing it later.

In Barbara's car she has some Curiously Strong Cinnamon Altoids breath mints.  I may have two a day of those.  I used to need to have a drink after eating one of them, but now I am tougher and can handle the strong flavor.

I found a new Hot Wheels pick-up truck when I went upstairs.  It reminds me of Daddy truck, except the color is different.

I behaved perfectly all day.  No Time Outs, no pouting or "attitude."  Everyone loves those kind of days.  I like them too.  First thing I told Mommy when I saw her was that there were No Time Outs today.  Daddy wanted to know if I apologized to GGM and I had, so both of my parents were very happy.

Carson came over to play with me.  Mommy showed us how to how to make paper airplanes out of construction paper.  We made six planes and had them flying all over the living room.  We also played with swords.  I out-shine Carson at sword fights.  I have all kinds of fancy moves.  He doesn't... but he can do other things that I can't.

I has a homework assignment to decorate a red heart for the bulletin board at school.  Mommy cut out the pictures and I stuck everything on the heart.  I have more family that I love, so if you don't see your picture, I have not forgotten you... just had to work with what I had on hand.