i would really like help with my question

i think i have been writing on this thing since i was 1 year old. a baby. now, i am 4. as of yesterday. practically a grown-up! my gramma and papa came and spent the whole week with me, which was very fun, because i love them, even though gramma is a peanut butter thief. and my real birthday was yesterday. i got a new bike with brakes on the handle bar AND a water bottle--just like mommy's and daddy's bike. and it has very big tires, so i can go very very fast. i also got an etch-a-sketch and some new underwear. i am so excited to get new underwear. it's an awesome present for a kid.

oh wait a second---NO IT ISN'T!!!!!!! underwear is a DUMB darn-it present. why would my parents think that is a good idea. my parents also gave me new books: the little mermaid and snow white. what? what's wrong with it? my mother thinks snow white is a disgusting horrible story, so i have to keep an eye on the book because i think she might take it back. she claims she "didn't realize" what the story was. right, mom. i also got neat army men and a stealth plane and 2 movies from gramma and papa. tiff & jason took me to a party for someone else in the afternoon--but everyone there knew it was my birthday, so i got the first piece of cake. i love them. they like taking me out. then we went out for a birthday dinner. mom said i could have whatever i wanted and you know what i asked for (i didn't even have to think about it)---SODA!!!!!!!!! oh yes, i got it too! and i got ice cream and everyone in the restaurant sang happy birthday. it was a good day, but not over....

today is the day after my birthday, but it's like my birthday is really long, because at school (on friday) we had cupcakes and a party and today was my REAL birthday party! unfortunately, gramma and papa had to leave, so they didn't go to the party. too bad, because it was really really really really really really really REALLY fun! we went to a gymnastics place where the kids and grown-ups can play. there was a LOT of kids there---from school, from church, friends my mommy works with, my neighbor, some brothers and sisters of kids. i think everyone had a very good time. and mommy is up very late trying to write thank you notes. tiff and jason and family who live far away and people who came to the party.....i got a LOT of presents. lots of very cool presents. i am not going to tell you everything i got because, well, there are a lot of reasons why not to. other than the darn-it underwear, i will say there is not one present i didn't like. and i had a spider man cake that was really a whole bunch of cupcakes. it was cool.

i hear mommy and daddy going on about how i got too much stuff and people are so generous and it makes mom feel all weird. but see, i'm 4 years old and for the first time, i UNDERSTAND that birthdays are ALL ABOUT THE PRESENTS! hell-o!!!!!!!! i knew it was coming, i knew what to look for. and my friends gave me the coolest stuff! no one gave me any clothes (except one person, ehem---spider man underwear is still clothes) some stuff i knew what it was, some stuff i never saw before, but liked the looks of it. i LIKED getting presents! can someone please explain to me why mommy "feels so weird" about it all? is it that she wants the presents herself? does she think presents are bad? really. i want to know. i know some grown-ups read this. maybe if you read this and you think someone else has an answer , you can forward them this blog and they can try to answer. the question of the day: why does mommy "feel weird" "humbled" about me getting a lot of very cool presents for my birthday. is it the "a lot" or the "very cool" (versus darn-it underwear) presents or for "my birthday". please pass it around.

every kid in the world should have their birthday at a gymnastics gym. it is THE funnest place in the whole world, even more fun that monkey joes. i want to take gymnastics lessons. i am not taking dance any more. spider man doesn't dance. and i'm spider man

i have a new babysitter

i can't believe i am going to write this. don't tell anyone or someone might come to take me away from my mommy and daddy. daddy had to work all weekend and mommy had to clean out the back bedroom. so, mommy let me watch The Little Mermaid all weekend. over and over and over and over and over and over. i watched The Iron Giant, too, but i was really into ariel and the sea witch this weekend. i think there was one other time a long time ago i got to watch movies all weekend, but this was insane. it can't be good to do that. i didn't really feel that good doing it. i got a headache. i even told mommy that "my thoughts were coming out of my brains." mommy said that was from watching too much t.v. i think we all learned a valuable lesson and won't be doing THAT anymore. we went to the pool for a few minutes and went to on a bike ride to the swings for a few minutes, but it was nothing compared to the amount of t.v. i watched. ugh.

my brain is NOT going to be top form for starting my first da of pre-k tomorrow.