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| Mia. It's amazing, she is actually looking at the camera and smiling too! She is not one for pictures being taken, I sure wish she would, oh well. |
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| If you look closely in Lucy's left hand she is holding a worm. She very often chooses everyday creatures like worms, houseflies, squirrels and claims them as her "pet". |
As I was raking the leaves I kept telling myself that at least this is easier than shoveling snow. Although at the rate I was going I think the sun would have already melted all of the snow by the time I get all those leaves raked up. I also kept reminding myself of when we moved to Evanston, IL, a suburb of Chicago when I was a child. We had moved from an apartment building in New York City. I was so excited about simple things, like having grass in our own yard, in fact I even sent some grass to my friend Lizet, who lived in the apartment that we had moved from (she said her mom was excited about it too and framed the grass and hung it on their wall). When fall came I was so excited to rake leaves. One afternoon afterschool I decided that I was going to rake the leaves. It was slightly drizzling, but that did not stop me from riding my bike to the 5 and 10 cent store a few blocks away to buy a rake with some money that I had saved. I rode my bike home with rake in hand and started at it. I was grinning from ear to ear! Then my neighbor, Vanessa from across the street and her brother came over and were so confused as to why I was raking the leaves in the rain. This was when I was in sixth grade.
