The Halland Tribe

This is my son Maddy's first book. It was an assignment for kindergarten, I was skeptical that a 6 year old could write a book, but he did this entirely on his own, and I am so proud of what he did! He typed a lot of it himself too!




THE ROBOT EAGLE OF DEATH by Madison Halland

ALONG TIME AGO DEEP IN THE FOREST THERE WAS A MSYTEROUS FORCE.

MANY PEOPLE THOUGHT THERE WERE NORMAL EAGLES AROUND BUT NO
THERE WASN’T THERE WAS A ROBOT EAGLE MANY SCIENTIST HAD DREAMS OF THE ROBOT EAGLE. AND THE ROBOT EAGLE WAS REAL,
THEN ONE NIGHT LITTLE JOHN SAW IN AN ELECTRIC FEATHER. HE PICK UP THE FEATHER.

CHAPTER 2
HE SWOOPED DOWN AND GRABED JOHN. LITTLE JOHN SAID “HELP!!! HELP!! PUT ME DOWN!” THE GIANT BIRD SAID “NO”.
CHAPTER 3THE EAGLE COULDENT TALK AND THE BEAST PUT HIM DOWN AND THEN HE USED HIS SWORD WING TO STOP HIM TO PIEACES THE GREAT BEAST FLEW UP THEN RASED HIS SWORD WING AND FLEW DOWN AND CHOPPED BUT IT DIDN’T WORK HE DID’NT KNOW THAT LITTLE JOHN WASN’T REALLY LITTLE THEY HAD A SWORD FIGHT
CHAPTER 4
THEN FINALLY LITTLE JOHN TURND IN TO A BIG JOHN THEN THE GREAT BEAST FLEW AWAY BECAUSES THE BEAST DIDN’T KNOW THAT LITTLE JOHN HAD A FORCE IN SIDE HIM. AND LITTLE JOHN DID’T KNOW
THAT THE EAGLE HAD THE MOST MILENIUM ITEM IN THE PLANT.

CHAPTER 5
THEN THE GREAT BEAST CAME BACK HE WAS STILL ANGERY AT LITTLE JOHN HIS SWORD WING TURNED INTO A NORMAL WING THEN THE GREAT BEAST HAD HIS FIRST CHANCE TO USE HIS CLAW WING AND THEN THE GREAT BEAST FLEW AND SHOCKED LITTLE JOHN AND THAT WAS VERY VERY VERY LONG SHOCK AND HE WAS THINKING TO
USE HIS CLAW FIRST A THUNDER LINE WENT DOWN HIS CLAW THEN HE PUT HIS CLAW ON LITTLE JOHN THEN HE WENT CRAZY! THE EAGLE PLANED TO KILL LITTLE JOHN THERE WAS ONE PROBLEM THE EAGLE’S LINE WENT UP AND IT DIDN’T SHOCK ANY MORE. And THEN Little John stopped going crazy. And then the eagle was going crazy.
Chapter 7
The terrifying beast
The eagle flew away to a mysterious jungle and then he spread his wings, he ran away from the mysterious glare. He could see it, he could feel it. A gorilla tackled him and then threw him on the ground. The great beast had shock him to stop him so he would not wrestle him any more. The shock didn’t hurt the gorilla, but the sword wing will.
The great beast realized that being bad isn’t all there is to being an eagle. So the great beast turned into good and stopped wrestling the gorilla. Then the Eagle said it’s what counts to be a good eagle and bring justice.

The End

Maddy, my six year old with cp, went to the Doctor the other day, not for himself but for my husband. The Doctor was making small talk with him, trying to be nice to him and after Maddy had answered all the questions that he wanted to, he put his fist to his chest, tapped it, made a peace sign and said "Peace, I'm outta here"

Maddy (my 5 year old) on Sunday was in a Sunday evening church service. During the service it was asked if there were any prayer requests, Maddy raised his hand, and I cringed,(what would he say?) He said," I want to ask for prayer for my Dad,Mark, he is my most favorite pastor at this church, and He is a genius" You gotta love that boy!

I am frustrated with the human race. Why are people so awful to each other?

I just got done with my son Maddy's physical therapy appointment. Maddy had cerebral palsey and is 5 years old. His physical therapist comes twice a week to work an hour with him. They do streches,exercises , play games, all in all a very hard but fun time. Maddy spends most of his time in a power wheel chair. He has spastic quadraplegic cerebral palsey, which means he cannot use his upper or lower body very well. It is hard to think that my sweet, funny, very witty baby doll will not ever lead a "normal" life...what ever that is! He will always be dependent on someone or something to get him around, to get in and out of bed,the couch, a chair, the house, the car. This is a full time, life time commitment for him. Sometimes the thought of that is overwhelming for me. It just makes me want to cry. Then I have to step back and reallly look at him. He is 5 going on 30, he is so smart it is scarey. He has full use of his speech and talks a lot! He has a great sense of humor, he will go up to anyone and say'" Hi, my name is Madison, what is your name?" Then hold out his hand to shake and say,"it's nice to meet you"(we never taught him that, he picked it up on his own) He is great at telling others what to do, he is selfconfident,has a mind that is always going. His favorite thing to do lately is to produce movies. Yes, he plans them out, the scenery, the setting, the characters, what they say, what they do, where they go, who is the bad guy, what does the others do to react to him...I can't even do justice to the work he puts in to them and this may go on for many days, as he develops the characters, and the scenes change,and he even has names for the different scenes! So when I start to feel melancholy about Maddy, I have to look at it this way, he is a fabulous person, he just has a different way of doing things, not the norm, isn't that tremendous ! Who wants to be just like everyone else?

Today is Monday, Jan. 12,2004, 9:07am and I have gotten 4 kids off to school, made two trips to two different schools, a grocery store, had a meeting with school officials to revise my son's IEP to help his study skills, taken care of my sick daughter, and tried to make an appointment for my daughter for an emergency dental apponintment. Haven't had any success getting her an appointment so far, I feel so bad for her, she is in so much pain! I am so frustrated with the dental system!!!!
I guess I should back up and say that I am the mother of 11 children. We have had 8 boys and 3 girls, one of our sons died 14 years ago, so we have 7 boys and 3 girls now. I am a stay at home mom, but that is such a silly term, I hardly ever get to stay at home! I have to spend too much time running around for kids stuff! This year is the first year that my youngest is in school. So this time next year I will be alone all day not just in the afternoon. What a very weird thing, it will be the first time in 23 years! I am doing a lot of thinking about what I will do with my time. What a big decision!