2nd draft

Mom was all dressed up for work in a white dress with red dots all scattered about. She almost stepped on my finger when I was crawling on the floor with those red shiny things that clanked on the floor. Mom picked me up and placed me closely to her chest. She gave me a big kiss on the cheek with her glossy red lipstick. My head fell onto her sweet smelling shoulder with a piece of her blonde hair falling onto the back of my neck. I played with these shiny red circles that hanged from her ears. Then, Mom handed me over to the babysitter I called, “Nana”. From the doorway she blew me a kiss and slammed the house door shut. Nana put me on the floor inside my playpen and closed the gate. I waddled over to the window, peeking from under the white curtains. I placed my cheek onto the side of the cold window and watched her slide open the van door. She plopped her purse down in the back seat along with a stack of papers I had colored on with my new Crayola Crayons. She looked at me with a smile on her face; I thought to myself, “ boy, is this going to be a long day or what?” The car started with a ‘vroom, vroom’. There she went, off to work. I took my head off the window and decided to start crying. Hey, whenever I cry that means free food. Babysitters always give into a baby when he cries. She pulled me over and lifted me over the fence of the playpen. Nana placed me in the green high chair and fastened the belt over my stomach. She walked over and opened a fresh jar of Gerber banana baby food “Snaup” went the jar. Nana walked over to me and said, “open wide, Benny- here comes the choo choo train, chooo” I opened wide. Nana shoveled the banana stuff into my mouth.

She took me back to into my room. It had blue airplanes hanging from the ceiling I could look at them for hours. Nana placed me softly in the crib and placed a c.d. into the boom box. It was the sound of the ocean, the rain, and skipped to chirps of crickets in the summer night. I fell asleep for a while and had dream. When I woke from a two-hour nap, I stood up holding on to the wood of the crib. I started rocking it back and forth. Nana came in and placed me on the front of her body. I didn’t really like what she was wearing today; it was itchy and made me sneeze. Once again, she put me in the light blue playpen. There, I sat bored as can be. Then, something really cool happened to me. “ A Pen!” was lying right in front of me, imagine that. I grabbed it and started making my own piece of paper on the wall. “Yea!” the endless sheet of paper that lasted all across my territory! I decided to draw all sorts of lines and what I called shapes. My favorite of all was to draw, long squiggly lines- those were not Moms favorites. Nana came in yelling the “ssshhhiiiugar”. “Ooppppsy” I shrugged. Nana yanked the pen from my hands. After that, I went to the place I was bound to see Mommy some time, ‘The Window’. My head made a little bang against the window and my cheek stuck to its side.

Finally, it was a little bit dark outside but I could still see, Spot go pee on the bright fire hydrant. Then, suddenly I see that gray van! That gray van was my best friend around this time in the evening. She grabbed her files, pushing that thing to lock the doors. Her high heels clanked as she went up the spaced out steps on the sidewalk up to the house. She put the keys in the door, I could always hear them went they went into the door. She opened the door and peeked her head in, “ heeeeeyy is anyone home?” I made a little chuckle sound with drool rolling down my face, “ hhheehhhee”. She took off her shoes and came to me, picked me up over the fence and gave me ol’ kiss.