8years 11 months

Preston is a PARK RANGER.. he is super cool and gave me a Tennessee Park Ranger Patch!! I was super excited about this one for sure!!!! We gave him a shirt and he is help to plan my 5K ….
After we left the park we went to my Best Friend Gavin 8th Birthday.. we get to be the same age for a few months :). I turn 9 in October. Yes I will be 9 .. mummy says I am starting to either act like a 2 year old or sometimes a 13 year old.. not sure what that means but guess I am moody!
I had mummy put me in my swim clothes but decided quickly I am not getting in that pool so asked for my normal clothes. I would rather just watch people swim way too much going on … I ate my cake and my mums. I ran around in circles at Angela and Danny’s house playing with Jackson it was a lot of fun, I love being scared.

Mummy had me go the park said Miss Kyrstin and Miss Lisa would be there and Isac well that would have been find but they tricked me it was to walk not to play.. walking in the park is not playing mum. It is exercise and work.. I think I do enough exercise I don’t need more.. she made me do a whole lap and I made it difficult for sure.. I laid on the trail and rolled around and got up walked and did it again.. I whined and made her realize that she probably doesn’t want me going on her walks anymore.. hoping it will make it where she doesn’t bring me again.. but sure she will… going to the park to play or meet the cool Park Rangers is one thing but walking!!! No thanks.

I have been a little cheeky this month at school and got into a little trouble b/c i am stubborn but honestly sometimes I am just aggravated with younger kids and things that make my routine not go exactly the way I want it to go... Mr. GREG knows I will do my work but I am just not in the mood sometimes lately!! had lots of test this month and follow ups with my doctors .. Saw my favorite Dr. Thomas, Saw Dr Adams my urologist he was nice and said we were good to wait 2 years to come back so that means my kidneys look good Yay!! one less doctor for a little while. Also went to eye doctor and my eyes look good left eye a little off but all and all good for now .. We went to see Destin at Christopher Optical and my glasses are under warranty so he is getting me some new lenses for my scratched ones. that will help.. I might stop asking for them to be cleaned..

Went to the police department to meet all the police officers that are supporting us ! Chief Lyles is super nice . We got so many cool things and of course I took pictures with everyone ! I had a great time.

I tried to put Underwear on by myself well that was not easy but waiting on mummy to get up here and help as she is unloading the car is not something I wanted to do.
We went to the fire station today is your picture with the Admin team, we also got pictures with A shift it was a lot of fun that goes to all the stations and play with the guys. Over the weekend we went and saw B shift and C shift make sure I have pictures with many of my FIRE family. I can for awareness month. It’s really neat to see everybody wearing purple and changing the color purple as well as the police department like all purple. although all the pictures get kind of old, I love seeing people mommy takes a lot of pictures .

Kleefstra awareness day, my school, Charlotte Elementary and Centennial Elementary as well as White Bluff elementary all were purple for me !! After school we went by the sheriffs department and took pictures and then Sweet Charlotte after Sweet Charlotte we went into Dickson and drove over to Docs barbershop because they dressed in all purple for me. I love the guys there. They are always so funny Angela at the bookstore in town on Main Street had a neat flyer up for me and so did Zander’s in a little boutique on Main Street it was cool to see my picture everywhere later than evening mommy daddy and I went over the EMS and I got to learn how a stretcher out of an ambulance learn how to put it up and down and put it back in. I was able to do it all by myself. I had a really good time. That’s a lot of fun of course mommy had to take pictures. We got home really late. I was ready to go to bed. It was a very busy day.

Friday my favorite place wash 37055 had a fundraiser for me again I went up and waived to people and helped some of my friends that came to support me to wipe their cars down! I was doing a great job. Some of the guys from the sheriffs department came for a car wash support me too. I took pictures of them and they let me jump because I love to jump ! I will probably never want to stop jumping wish I could still be thrown in the air, but mommy says I’m too heavy! Maybe uncle Travis can do it, he’s super strong! I am getting ready to go to Texas for intense therapy. I’m super excited because my grandmother lives there and I talk to her every day on FaceTime. It’s nice when I want thing and mommy says no grandma says yes and buys it and send it to my house for me, I just have to send her the link off Amazon of what I want and it’s magically shows up! I asked mommy to get my Santas out. She said no because that’s not Christmas so I found Santa, I wanted on Amazon and sent it to my grandma and she ordered it for me so I have a Santa truck in the living room! Told her to get mine out ! Mommy has been making shirts to raise money for my therapy apparently our new insurance doesn’t wanna pay for it. Not sure if that’s a good thing or bad thing means I don’t have to work if I don’t have to go mommy says there’s no way I’m not going so it’s nothing for me to worry about. Every day, I tell everybody how excited I am to go to Texas because I get to see grandma and Buc-ee ! There are a lot of Buc-ees in Texas.

ON the road... oh wow... it is raining hard.. i think it is funny of course. it took us a really long time to get out of the rain. We stopped for gas and stuff in Jackson , then got to arkansas and stopped at Sissy house to drop off a few things for Ollie and Rett. Then back on the road to texas.. We stopped at the TEXAS State line and sent a picture to Grandma to show her we were in TEXAS . i am so excited!

Royse City - 1st Buc- ees of the trip.. Been a long trip… mummy got some food to help perk her up…. I got more snacks.. butterfly gummies of course.. on to the next Buc-ees… it is Bucee time.. I get 5 this morning… We’ve been up all night so you can say mummy is a little crazy and singing.. and I laugh and I am sooo excited for buc-ees I am keeping her on her toes…
Terrell -2nd Buc-ee stop of the trip I met a new manager and some awesome ladies at check out. They all got bracelets … spreading the Kleefstra cheer… love that they are always so nice to me. Of course they loved my room picture.. I am always told I should be a Buc-ee spoke person but since I can’t talk that doesn’t work well. Third one was Ennis- I got something to munch on and mummy got a biscuit… we then went to McDonalds for my McGriddles and mummy a FRAPPE we got stuff for my cousin Amber too and went over to my cousins house where I played with the cat and a nerf gun..I think it is funny to shoot it and am getting good at it. I laid down took an hour nap and we walked next door to see my cousin Sandy before getting back on the road to go to Hillsboro Buc-ees … was sad Delany wasn’t at work but we still enjoyed and I got a new Buc-ee and shirt b/c it was a new store. Left and went to Temple and that was my 5th and final Buc-ee for this trip. We got gas and did car wash .. Love the carwash it is so cool with the colors and bucee in the car ..
Finally got to Monica house ..23 and 1/2 hours later… (14 hour drive took as long as Boston this time with weather) Monica helped us unload… I just wanted to go see Grandma. We got settled and went to her house. Mummy went to the store … got back to the house and Axel ate my Oreos and all my Buc-ee gummies… he didn’t leave a crumb … the next am he felt soooo bad.. . dogs aren’t supposed to have cookies apparently.. But he sure did enjoy them until the next morning and he was sick… Glad I don’t get sick like that eating cookies!! This trip was long but was so happy to see my grandma and Uncle Steven !!! Uncle Steven is making me cool 3D things.
WE have a busy few weeks and honestly kind of dread the busy but hard work we have to do the next few weeks. BUT I will get a lot of family time!

I did get to eat dinner with Matt and Christy... Love my Matt and Christy... going to get to see them some more ... We spent a long time at the BBQ restaurant but I had minecraft so allowed her to talk for a change ..

More to come ….. Napa Blog of course !!!

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