Gracelyn's+Word+Choice

​On October, 26th, 2005 I was so excited. Why? It was my sixth birthday. I was bringing chocolate cupcakes to school that day, my favorite.

Every birthday my mom has a special birthday outfit picked out. This year's had pumpkins on it. Personally I despised it because it was very tight and itchy. My mom also made me ware these really ugly shoes. That really didn't matter though, because that morning I had a doughnut with chocolate frosting and sprinkles. When you're six, doughnuts are like a million dollars.

Once I was ready I left with Dad and, the birthday cupcakes. Then Dad sang this birthday monkey song which he sings every year that is really annoying. The reason it is so annoying is one year he recorded it, and he always makes me sing along. Atleast he has never sung it at a resturant if that happens I might have to go away. Anyway it goes like this... Happy Brthday to you, you look like a monkey and act like one too, Happy Birthday to you, you smell like a monkey and look like one too, Happy Birhday to you, you are a monkey so you live in a zoo.

Soon as I walked in to the classroom I heard a loud roar it turned out it was just the kids shouting CUPCAKES! Except for a few kids who did say happy birthday then asked what time we were going to eat them and of course Mrs. Johnson said, "Snack time." So later we had the cupcakes. At snack time it was almost a disaster; kids had frosting all over their faces. One kid dropped his on the floor then started to bawl, luckily we had extras. After that I don't think Mrs. Johnson ever wanted to see another cupcake again. The rest of the day did go on as usual.

Then at the end of the day we always had a read aloud during that time I started to get dizzy and when I got dizzy I knew it meant migraine I really didn't want a migraine on my birthday. My head hurt so bad I almost started to cry. Finally I couldn't take it I told Mrs. Jonhson I didn't feel well then went down to the nurse. I found out I had a temp. The nurse said, "You feel as hot as the sun." My mom came and picked me up flabbergasted because I was perfectly fine that morning. Not long after my ribcage started to ache. My parents got more and more worried.

Later we found out I pneumonia that is an illness when gunk that looks like hair gel collects in your lungs making your sides ache, because of that I spent two weeks in two different hospitals. I had surgery and didn't go back to school for a while. Even though it wasn't a fun experience I will never ever forget the birthday I got pneumonia.