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Drizella Goes to the YMCA

What happens when a 4-year old goes to the YMCA?  When it's Drizella, you don't want to be there!

Once upon a time about last week, a little girl named Drizella and her mummy and her daddy went to the YMCA.  The little girl Drizella said, “Mummy, mummy, I will help you”.  “Okay, Drizella, you can help me, but after you have to go into baby-sitting”, said mummy.  “Oh yes, mummy.  I will go in baby-sitting and I will be a very good girl”, said Drizella. 

So, Drizella went with mummy and daddy to the gym to help mummy and daddy to get ready and Drizella found a basket-ball.  “Mummy, mummy, can I play with this please, mummy?”  “Yes you may, Drizella, but be very careful”.  “Oh yes, mummy”.  So Drizella began to bounce the ball all around the gymnasium… Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce.  “Watch this, mummy, watch this!”, and she through the ball up as high as she could throw it.  And it came down and it went ‘boing’ right on daddy’s head. 

 “Drizella!”, daddy said, “Be careful”.  “Yes, daddy, yes, daddy.”  Drizella’s mummy said, “Say you’re sorry”. “No, no, no” said Drizella and she took her ball and she ran away.  She went to the other side of the gym and she was going, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce…  “Mummy, mummy, watch this!”  “Be careful, Drizella”, said mummy and Drizella threw the ball up in the air as highhhh as she could and it came down and craaaash… right on top of the stereo - and all the music stopped and nobody could do any more exercise.  And everybody in the gym said, “DRIZELLA!!!”

“Humph, Drizella”, her mummy said, I told you to be careful.  “Yes, mummy”.  “Say you’re sorry”.  “No, no, no” and Drizella ran away with her ball to the other side of the gym and she started to bounce her ball again, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce…

“Mummy, mummy, watch this!”, said Drizella.  And mummy said, “Oh no, Drizella, not again!  Be careful Drizella”.  “Yes, yes, mummy, I know” and she threw the ball up as high as she could again and you know what happened?  The ball got stuck in the rafters, on the ceiling and it never came down again”.  Then all the boys and girls said, “Drizella!!! Now we can’t play!”.  Everybody said, “Drizella!”. 

Drizella’s mummy said, “Drizella, if you can’t play nicely, you can’t play in the gym.  Let’s go to baby-sitting”.  So Drizella’s mummy took her to baby-sitting and she put Drizella in baby-sitting.  Drizella’s mummy went back to work to do her exercise.  Drizella’s daddy did his exercise and Drizella was in baby-sitting. 

At first she sat very quietly on Miss Connie’s lap.  She was being good.  She was trying very, very hard to be good, which is very, very difficult for Drizella.  And that lasted about 5 minutes.  And then Drizella said, “I’m tired of sitting still, I’m going to play.”  So first she got down and got on the sit-and-spin. 

Drizella got the sit-and-spin out and she sat on it and she started spinning around and around and around and she went faster and faster and faster and faster and faster and faster and… you know what happened?  She flew off!  She flew off the sit-and-spin.  Did you ever fly off the sit-and-spin?  She flew right off, she was going so fast.  She flew off and she landed on the floor, but she didn’t land on the carpet, do you know what she landed on?  She landed on a baby .  Splat.  Drizella landed on top of a baby. 

Do you know what the baby said?  What does a baby say when you sit on him?  The baby cried. “Wah, wah, wah”, said the baby.  “Oh!”, Miss Connie said, “Drizella!  Don’t sit on the baby!”.  So, Miss Connie put the sit-and-spin away and Drizella was not allowed to play with it anymore.  “What a drag”, said Drizella.  “I need to find something else to play with”.  So she looked around and she said, “Oh, cool, look.  I found a basket-ball net!”.

Drizella found the basket-ball net, but she could not find a ball.  The little basketball was gone.  Well, how am I going to play basketball, Drizella said.  So first she got a dolly.  There are dollies in baby-sitting, but it must have been somebody else’s dolly.  She picked up the dolly and first she threw the dolly.  Boing, through the net…  into the basket.  She threw the dolly into the basket…swish.  “2 points!”, Drizella said.

Then she got the fire-truck.  There was a fire-truck in baby-sitting and Drizella took the fire-truck and swoosh… into the basket!  “Yeah”, Drizella said, “I’m good!”.  Then Drizella took some Mr. Potato-heads and swish, swish, swish, into the basket. “Yeah”, said Drizella, “I’m the best!  Now I need something really, really tough”. 

She looked around and while Miss Connie was busy cleaning up the crayons, Drizella took the baby and swoosh, in the basket!  Drizella was playing basket-ball with a baby!  Is that naughty?  What did the baby say?  “Wah, wah, wahhhh, said the baby.  Miss Connie said, “Drizella!  Don’t play basket-ball with the baby!”.  Don’t sit on the baby, leave the baby alone.  Go to time out.”  Oh, Drizella was so sad; she had to sit in time-out and she had no toys and she had no books and she had nothing to play with.  When Drizella’s mummy came back to get her, Drizella was *still* sitting in time out.

Miss Connie told Drizella’s mummy about how Drizella  sat on the baby, and played basket-ball with baby and what did Drizella’s mummy say? 

“Drizella!  You are a naughty girl.  Come home with daddy and mummy.”

(... to be continued!!!)