2005-08-14 - 12:41 p.m.

Here are some pictures to show you all that has been happening with my teeth. Finally, one of my top teeth is coming in! That will help with apples and corn on the cob.

Yesterday my grandmother went to Charleston with us. Since we have eight kids in our family, we have a fifteen passenger van that can hold us all.

On the way there, Mom read some famous Charleston ghost stories. We don't actually believe in ghosts-- she was reading them for the fun of it.

When we got there, we went to a restaurant named Poogan's Porch. It is named for a porch dog named Poogan, and he is buried in the front yard.

Richard and George had blueberry pancakes. Will had an oyster Po Boy. Dad and Webb and I had combination plates with shrimp, oysters, and fish, and it was a good choice. It came with peas. Ma and Mom had Charleston chicken with artichoke sauce and Mom let me taste it and it was really tasty. Spencer had a chicken salad sandwich and James and Sarah Grace had BLTs with fried green tomatoes and goat cheese.

There was a guy with a mustache who was nice but our waitress had a sour face on and she was rude. I'm not kidding. I don't know why she was rude because we have good manners. Everybody says so. We sit still and we don't clank around or make any racket.

At the restaurant, we gave presents to Ma. Mom and Sarah Grace made cross stitches for her and Will made her a Scrabble pocketbook. One time she gave him a wooden box when she was cleaning out her garage so he made it into a pocketbook. She loves Scrabble and they played it when she went to the beach with us. He put words on it that remind us of Ma and our beach trips.

After lunch, Mom took us in the The Mills House Hotel and it was grand with marble floors and a sparkling chandelier. I don't know if the chandelier actually made tinkling sounds but it looked like it should've.

We saw a restaurant called 82 Queen where Mom and Dad ate the night Dad asked Mom to marry him. We saw the bench where he gave her a diamond ring and we saw the church they got married in! It was the first Baptist church in the south, and Dad graduated from a college that was the first Baptist church in this country! And guess what? We aren't Baptists!

Ma showed us a library that is named for her family. I'm not kidding! Her name was Waring and it's on a library and a bunch of them live there and they had a newspaper business and big, fancy, houses all squunched together near a park with cannons and statues. And there were lots of weddings there, too.

We saw a very black man playing a saxaphone and some very black people selling seagrass baskets on the sidewalk.

We saw a man painting a church. He wasn't painting on it, he was painting a picture of it.

We went over the new bridge and it reminded me of the rollercoaster at the fair.

It was all very exciting, but I'm getting tired now, so I'll have to tell you more later.

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