Jumping over the sun

People keep telling me about God. I’m not too sure about God, he lived in a cave and died on a giant letter t. But when Dad told me he made the world in seven days I changed my mind, God must be alright because I love numbers and I know all the days of the week and what happens on each day.

Monday is a school day. I usually know what the letter of the week is already, I can remember it from the week before. I can remember just about everything. I can remember when Mum bought me my cat in the hat cards and I can remember when Dad broke his tail bone jumping down a sand dune at the beach and he made a funny noise.  I can remember that Greg and Truly live at number twenty six and I know the numbers of all my friends houses. I live at 22, my house is yellow and all the leaves on our trees have fallen off because it is Autumn. Autumn comes before winter. All our trees have numbers. Number one is in the front yard and has Ruby’s swing on it. My lunch box is blue.

On Monday God made day and night.

At night time at eight o’clock I put my pyjamas and magic pants on and have my quiet time (my magic pants are actually a nappy, I don’t think Dad knows that). At nine o’clock I am supposed to go to bed. I am not allowed to start a project at nine o’clock but that’s when I get some of my best ideas. I am usually asleep by ten, but not always. I have a blue lunch box.

On Tuesday God made the ocean and the land. 

Tuesday is a school day. I like school, one day I want to be a teacher. I teach my animals everything I have learnt at school that day. Sometimes this takes ‘till well past ten o’clock. Mum lies down with me to help me get to sleep, my mum is warm and smells better than Dad. Mum and Dad yawn a lot. Sometimes I yawn too, I cry a lot as well. I have cried and screamed so much I have lumps in my throat called nodules. I went to hospital to find them, when I woke up Dad was sitting beside my bed with Lion and I had some new silver teeth and a drink of water. I have a blue lunch box and my book bag is blue.

Wednesday is a school day, after school I go to dancing. I like to dance, I slip over a lot. There are some questions I have no idea how to answer. I know happy face, sad face, surprised face, grumpy face. When Mr Campbell yelled at me for running through the mud it made my tummy feel funny and I didn’t know why, I wasn’t hungry and I didn’t need to fart. I spent all afternoon trying to stop my tummy feeling funny until Mummy came and got me from school.  Dad asked me what had happened, I told him and my tummy started feeling funny again and I couldn’t go to sleep. My blue lunch box has a place for my water bottle.  

On Wednesday God made plants and trees, the trees all have numbers. My favourite is number twenty four.

On Thursday God made the Sun and the Moon and the stars. I can count all the stars, there are 406 and know the names of all the shapes of the moon. Sometimes the moon comes out in the day time.

Thursday is a school day. The word of the week this week is ‘you’ and the letter of the week is ‘z’. I know the names of lots of shapes, more names than Dad knows. Dad doesn’t know how to spell February, he has to ask Mum. I have to write the word of the week in every page of my new scrap book. It has one hundred and one pages. My Mum is amazing she makes me green eggs and ham. When Dad says, “do you want to say your prayers” I say “your prayers”, he always laughs? I always say God bless Mummy. Mum and Dad take turns to go out on Thursday night. I hardly ever start a conversation, when I do Mum and Dad always listen and have a happy face. Once I told Dad I loved him, we where sitting on the couch at uncle Stu’s place. Dad had eye water. I haven’t said that to him again. If love makes you feel warm and safe and smells nice, then I love my Mum too. I have written my name on my blue lunch box.

On Friday God made fish and birds. 

Friday is a school day. Everything needs a name tag I have made so many name tags they fill a huge bag. We had a disco at my school, I was watching the numbers change on the clock until it was time to go. It was dark and too loud, we came home and had a disco in the lounge. Dad always has a happy face on Friday. Some times we have fish and chips on a Friday. I’m glad God made fish on a Friday otherwise we would have birds and chips. My blue lunchbox got broken, now my lunch box is green. 

On Saturday God made the animals, man and woman. That was when he made my Lion and my Mum and Dad. If Adam was the first man then the first woman must have been Michelle. Adam and Michelle are just up the road. Michelle taught me how to do a cow kiss, thats when you lick some ones face. 

On Saturday mum has a sleep in. I have to wait for her to wake up before Dad and I can go out. If I have stayed in bed at night during the week then we go shopping. I like to go to K-mart or the white board marker shop. At K-mart you can make the toys go beep on the scanner. I am allowed to spend five dollars. I make all the different plastic animals and dinosaurs go beep, it can take a long time. Dad brings the paper with him when we go to K-mart. 

On Saturday Dad also takes me go to the park. It is very important that went go the right way to the park, I have to check off different things in my head before we get there. If I don’t it doesn’t feel right and I make Dad turn around. I like the park with the two yellow slides and the number park. Once we went to park, Dad walked away from me and he started getting smaller, I yelled out “Dad get off the grass it’s making you shrink!” Dad laughed and had a happy face. 

I also like power poles, I like to draw them and make them out of lego. On Saturday we sometimes drive around looking at different power poles, I have names for all the different types of power poles. Some power poles look like giant letter t’s.

I don’t know why people freak me out. Some times when someone says hello to me I scream at them or yell at them, I don’t mean to, I just get some many things happening in my head thats all that comes out.

I scream at people at church sometimes.  

On Sunday God rested, he must have been tired after making all those things. I wonder what time he had to go to bed.

The world that God has made for me is sometimes a strange and confusing place. I sometime wonder if he was thinking of me at all when he made it. 

I like it that he made water, water seems to slow everything down, even all the things that are happening in my brain. Mum and Dad took me on holiday to Grahams Beach, Dad took me swimming a lot. I would go into the water right up to my neck and ride on Dads back, I liked the feeling of the water all over my skin, I felt calm and my head was quiet.

The way my mind works does not match up with the way other peoples do. Sometime this is hard, sometimes it’s fun. I see and think things other people can’t. 

When we went to the park and Dad jumped from one shadow to the next shadow, I did the same except I jumped over the sun.