That’s how it works.”ĭad scratched his chin. Then you can say ‘warm, warmer, FIERY HOT’ if I get close, or ‘cool, cooler, ICE FREEZE’ if I’m wrong. “But you have to give me a clue,” I said.
He typed something into his phone while we waited at the lights. “Where are we going for the adventure?” I asked Dad. Mine were beautiful and colorful and tropical jungle butterflies and they were flying around having a big party with streamers and balloons. Stomach butterflies are special ones that get inside your belly when you are very nervous or very excited about something.
Inside my stomach, I had ONE THOUSAND butterflies. Clemesta will stay with me of course because she never leaves my side. I will call it DOLLY HEADQUARTERS INCORPORATED and I will sleep there some nights if there are GUARANTEED no spiders or sneaky mice waiting to nibble me for their tasty midnight snack. The yard has a big old tree standing in the middle and Dad promised to build me a tree house in there one day soon.
“And Clemesta,” I said, because Clemesta HATES to be left out of anything and gets very grouchy if she is.ĭad pulled the car out of the driveway and I turned back to watch our house, which is 31-42 Crescent Street, Astoria, New York, zip code 11106, and a very beautiful and lovely house of red bricks with a whole yard in the back just for me. “Who’s coming along for the adventure?” I said. Anyway, I was THRILLED IN PIECES and when Dad strapped me in with the seat belt I didn’t tell him that I could do it myself since FOREVER because I was too busy spinning around in my brain thinking about where we could be going and what exactly an adventure was and how come we were taking one JUST LIKE THAT on an ordinary and regular Saturday morning with no special plans marked with a red pen in the family calendar of ENGLISH COUNTRY GARDENS that stays in place on the refrigerator with three magnets that look like cookies but taste like plastic so don’t even try them.ĭad climbed in front and set a duffel bag on the seat next to him. That’s also the birthday of that boy Deacon in my class with the extra-big ears, but he still gets a party every year. That’s only two days of the whole entire year which has 365 days in it usually but 366 days when it’s a LEAP YEAR that jumps ahead but only every four years on the 29th of February. I was ONE HUNDRED PERCENT excited because an adventure was an enormous and unexpected surprise and usually those are only for birthdays or Christmas morning.
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