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I Miss You, My Sister.

Dragontonge has left us. She went far, far away. For the whole summer! The only good thing about this is now I have my own room! But only for the summer. She left to help our cousin move back into the states from Japan, where she had lived for 10 years! So it will be a great chance for Dragon to practice all the Japanese she has been learning, 'cause our cousin has a small daughter who knows only a little English, if any at all! Dragon will be there until our cousin's husband can come, so we aren't sure exactly WHEN she'll be coming back. Though it'll most likely be in August somtime. I'm pretty excited for Dragon, even though I miss her like crazy!

Long Walks

Yesterday, my little 3 year old sister announced that she wanted me to take her on a walk, so I told mom that I was going to take CJ for a short walk and that I should be back soon.
     Before continuing with my story, perhaps I should inform you that the stretch of road I live on is about a good mile one way, and we are right near the end of it.
So I took little CJ by the hand and we sent off down the road. She began talking up a storm right away. How she can speak clearly enough for me to understand her with that binky (pacifier) in her mouth I'll never know. She would look wayyy down to the stop sign at the far end of the street and say "We goin' all the way arn't we?" I looked down at her in surprise and asked her if she really wanted to, and she assured me that she really did, so we should!
I figured I could do that, 'cause she'd most likely get tired before we got there, right? WRONG.
We walked at a moderate pace down the road waving happily at every vehicle that came our way and before I knew it we were at the stop sign! I then started to turn around, but CJ insisted that she wasn't tired and that she wanted to keep going! So we went onto a road that was a bit busier and continued on with our walk, still waving emphatically. (The reason I agreed is 'cause there is another road that we could take to get back to our house, hence, I could trick her into thinking we were getting farther and farther way, when in reality we were getting closer. Heheh....)
Once we returned home, I explained to Mom what happened and she was good with it, though she had been getting a little worried.
     It didn't take my youngest brother long to hear that I had taken CJ on a walk, but hadn't taken HIM, and he was kinda ticked. So I told him that after a little break to recover my energy I would take him on a walk, but he insisted that it be the SAME walk I took CJ on. So I did, and once we started off HE started talking my ear off.
"Anony, I know how they make roads! They get a bunch of this black gooey stuff and smear it all over where they want the road to be, then they have a bunch of people come and make it so it's smooth and paint the Yellow and white lines, and THEN they dump a bunch of little rocks everywhere and have cars drive over them so that they will be in the road."
He really is quite a cute 6 year old. Though he doesn't really like being called 'cute' he would rather we call him 'short'.
While on the walk, I again waved happily at every passing car. After a while MS asked my WHY I did that? Wasn't it embarrassing? I told him it wasn't. He said that he though it was. I asked him if I was embarrassing him, and he said I was. I love MS. (I still waved by the way)