Grade 4 Little Miss Sunshine

This is in response to Beth's request for elementary school photos on October 1, relayed to me by Old Lady from Savannah. I took a picture of a picture since I didn't have a way to scan this in. It's not great but you get the idea. (I made the sailor dress.) The short hair was a pixie cut painfully growing out.

So what were the highlights of 1959 for me?
-- I started taking piano lessons.
-- I came down with mononucleosis while on a trip to Minneapolis and was in the hospital for a week while they tested me for leukemia and other scary things.
-- I was chosen to star in the student council play, not knowing that the selection was because of my long blond hair, which I had cut into a pixie just 2 weeks later. I still kept the part.
-- A boy from my class and I built a doll house that took up half my bedroom, was 2 stories tall, and had a swimming pool. We made all the furniture, including a drop-leaf table, and even made a car. It was a fun summer project. I learned how to saw, hammer, and put things together.
-- I finally learned (not first-hand) how babies were made (I was always the last to know things like this.)

It was all in all a good year!