Chapter 9 Gretchen's first birthday part one

As the sun rose upon the town of Clearfield Pennsylvania. Gretchen was still fastest sleep in her crib. Her emotions however were awake and they all couldn't wait for Gretchen to wake up. For today was Gretchen's first birthday. "Oh I'm so excited. "I can't believe Gretchen is One today "Joy shouted merrily! "Me either it seems like only yesterday that she was a tiny newborn "curiosity added. "If you ask me she won't even be able to enjoy the party she's just a baby all they do is sleep eat and poop "anger huffed. "Just wait until she gets a little bit bigger than the fun can really begin! " "I just hope we don't get all messy when trying to eat the cake "Discussed murmured. "We won't "joy replied. "It's going to be a blast. " just then Gretchen woke up.

"Oh we are awake we should cry for mom and dad "sadness walked up towards the button. "Sadness no I don't think crying is the best thing for her "Joy got cut off due to sadness pressing the button. Gretchen began crying and screaming with all her might. Joy try to move sadness away from the button but it was no use. She just wouldn't budge. Joy secretly hated hearing the sound of Gretchen cry. Anytime she heard that she always wanted to rush to the button and make it all better. But this time she couldn't because sadness just wouldn't move. Joy had tried being nice to sadness from the beginning. Really she had but sometimes her patients was tested. Like now for instance. "Sadness please stop your making everything worse "Joy yelled. Then she clamped her hand to her mouth realizing what she had just said. "Oh i'm sorry I was just trying to help out. "Sadness then got up looked at all the emotions and walked away to one of the far corners of the room. "No sadness wait come back I didn't mean "Joy stopped midsentence realizing that it was no use. Joy press the button. It turn from blue to golden. She relaxed slightly at seeing her favorite color appear on the button. Knowing her job was done for the time being. She walked over to the couch and plopped down.

Hearing her daughter cry Mrs. Alexandria ran into the room only to find that Gretchen was now giggling. "Good morning baby girl "Said Mrs. Alexandria. Happy birthday Gretchen "said mr. Alexandria who was standing by Mrs. Alexandria. "We need to get you dressed company will be here soon. " mrs. Alexandria Took Gretchen over to her white changing table, changed her out of her pajamas, changed her, and dressed her in a light blue party dress. "Oooo that dress is so pretty"Joy commented from her usual place beside the button. "I gotta admit "discussed said. "Gretchen's mom does have pretty good fashion sense. "

10 minutes later company was already arriving.

Grandmas and grandpas, aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews, cousins, brothers in law, sisters-in-law, and even mothers and fathers in law. They had all come to celebrate the first birthday of such a special little girl. They all said things like isn't she adorable, Oh just look at her, look at those chubby cheeks, look at that pretty party dress, she's so special, she's so wonderful, and other things like that. But the thing that mattered most to Gretchen and her emotions was that they all brought presents.

The first thing they did was serve cake. Gretchen was placed in her highchair a piece of vanilla cake with pink frosting set before her. "OK Gretchen here comes the train" her father said. "All right guys...move it. this is where my area of expertise kicks in discussed said while simultaneously cracking her knuckles. She pressed the button and Gretchen ate the piece of cake without one drop spilling on her dress.