Using a tape measure, I measured the heads and waists of myself and 4 siblings in both inches and centimeters. I saw that by the time a child is about three, their heads slow down their growth significantly. A newborn's head on average is usually about 13.7" or 35 cm. Zoey is three and her head is eighteen inches in circumference, while mine, at thirteen, is twenty-one, Julia and Olivia have the same size heads at about twenty inches at five and eight. Levi's head is about 20 1/2" and He is ten. Zoey's head and waist are almost exactly the same size. Julia's head and waist are the same size as well. It seems that everyone but me has their head circumference the same as their waist circumference!

this is the directions on how to make a graph in google docs. It's how I got this graph:
http://support.google.com/docs/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=63728

Four sons of the English Throne

            King Henry V of England was born at the Monmouth Castle on either the ninth of  August of the sixteenth of September, in about 1386. His father was Henry of Bolingbroke, later King Henry IV of England, and his mother Mary de Bohun, who gave birth to him at sixteen. After his father died on the twentieth of March, 1413, Henry V succeeded him the day after and was Crowned on the ninth of April, 1413. He married Catherine of Valois and they had only one child, Henry, who later became King Henry VI of England.
            Thomas of Lancaster was born on the twenty-fifth of November, 1387, and was the first Duke of Clarence. He was the second surviving son of Henry IV and Mary. He married  the widow Lady Margaret Holland, but while they did not have any children, Thomas was a stepfather to the six children she had in her first marriage  and he had one natural son by a different woman, Sir John of Clarence, also called the "Bastard of Clarence", who fought by his father's side in the wars of his Thomas's elder brother, Henry V, in France. He died on the twenty-second of March, 1421, at the age of  34.
            John of Lancaster, the First Duke of Bedford, was born on the twentieth of June, 1389. He was the third son of Henry IV and Mary de Bohun, and he served as the regent of France for his nephew, Henry VI. He died on the fourteenth of September, in 1435 and had no children.
            Humphrey of Lancaster was born on the third of October, 1390, and he was the first Duke of Gloucester. He was the fourth and youngest son of King Henry IV of England and Mary de Bohun. He had a very romantic and chivalrous personality, which caught the attention of Jacquline, Countess of Hainaut and Holland. The pair had a stillborn child in 1424, and Jacquline died in 1436. He remarried his former mistress, Eleanor Cobham. She was tried and convicted of practicing witchcraft against the King, trying to retain power for her husband, and she was exiled and imprisoned for life. Humphrey had two children, Arthur of Gloucester, who died in 1447, and Antigone Plantagenet of Gloucester, who married Henry Grey, second Earl of Tankerville, Lord of Powys, and then, after Henry Grey died in 1450, married John d'Amancier. Humphrey died on the twenty-third of February, 1447.

Blanche of England

            Blanche of England was born in the spring of 1392 at Peterborough Castle, Northamptonshire. She was made the Lady of the Garter in, a high honor in the Order of the Garter, the highest order of chivalry or knighthood in England, in 1408.
            When Blanche's father, King Henry IV of England came to rule, he wanted to make strong alliances so as not to be overthrown easily. One of the people he wanted to ally with was King Rupert of Germany, so Blanche and Louis, Rupert's eldest surviving son, were married on the sixth of July, 1402 at the Cologne Cathedral, in Germany. On the twenty-second of June, 1406, Blanche had a son, who was named Rupert, after his grandfather.
            A year after she was made Lady of the Garter, she became pregnant with her second child and died of fever in Haguenau, Alsace on the twenty-second of May, 1409, and was buried in the canonchurch of St. Mary in Neustadt in the Palatinate.

Christmas on Mercer Street

Last Saturday, I went to a craft fair called Christmas on Mercer Street to sell my glass necklaces I made to get to Ghana with my Girl Scout troop. I spent the night at my friend Jessica’s to be able to wake up early to go.
When we got up, I dressed after sitting and staring blankly at the mirror. I ate and packed my things to get ready to go home after the fair, but when I walked outside, it was pouring cats and dogs. Not to mention it was extremely cold. For Texas. After arriving at the fair at seven in the morning, we go hot chocolate and I burned my tongue (I couldn’t eat anything sour or crunchy for two days). We set up the tent and waited for the other troop. Slowly they arrived, but there were too many people in the tent. Some of us had to leave the tent to go look around, ‘cause we were all mushed together. My sneakers and socks were soaked through and my feet felt like they were thawing out all day without ever being frozen. I jumped in puddles and waded through small streams down the street and my feet didn’t feel any wetter or look so.
I met a Finnish lady who spoke fluent German. Jessica is learning German, so we sat there for a while. I saw a scorpion made from gears and bicycle chains, and homemade chain mail jewelry. There was food, paintings, sewing projects, and chili pepper ornaments. I collected pine cones and pine needles from the giant pine tree at thee end of the road and did and obstacle course. I stepped on a wobbly rock and it fell out of place, throwing me onto the ground. My big bruise started turning purple instantly, but that quickly went away. I walked back to our booth and  cheered up so as not to drive away customers or add more misery to the weather.

We each made one hundred dollars that day between the three girls there. It was a profitable day considering the conditions outside and I met and saw a lot of neat people and their crafts.

Philippa of England (Queen of Denmark)

    Philippa of England was born of Henry of Bolingbroke, who later became King Henry IV of England, in Peterborough Castle on July fourth, 1394.
    In 1401, King Henry IV proposed to Queen Margaret I of Denmark an alliance between England and Denmark, by way of an English heir to the throne to Catherine, sister to the heir of the Nordic thrones, but Margaret could not agree with the English conditions to this arrangement, therefore, Philippa was engaged to Eric of Pomerania, and declared Queen in 1405. She was married to Eric on October 6, 1406 in Lund Cathedral. She was the first recorded princess to wear a white wedding dress for a royal wedding ceremony. She wore a white tunic with a white silk cloak bordered with grey squirrel and ermine. She received large parts of Sweden as her dowry. That is where she spent most of her rule.
    Philippa gave birth to a stillborn boy in 1429 and died on January seventh in 1430.

Olivier de Clisson

    Olivier de Clisson was a French man, who was a close friend and adviser to the King Charles VI of France. He was raised in England by his mother, Jeanne de Belleville, for his father, Olivier de Clisson Sr., was put to death on the suspicion of him wanting to give up Nantes to the English, and where Jeanne married her second husband.
    When Olivier returned to Brittany, he went to arms with John de Montfort.  He made himself known at the battle of Auray, where he lost an eye and earned the nickname, "Butcher" for ordering his troops to leave no survivors and take no prisoners. Later on, because of quarrels and differences against Montfort, he took sides against him, therefore, he allied with France. In 1370, Olivier acquired possession of Josselin and built Josselin Castle. Later that same year, he allied with Bertrand du Guesclin, following him in all the riots against England. When Guesclin died,, Olivier gained the title of the Constable of France in his place, and kept the title for twelve years, until 1392.
    When he returned to France, an attempt was made to assassinate him by Pierre de Craon, who was in league with Montfort, now John V, Duke of Brittany, but his life was spared thanks to his chainmail coat, giving him time to draw his sword against his attackers. While the struggle was going on, Clisson fell off his horse and was knocked out by hitting the door of a bakers shop. Believing Olivier dead, Pierre fled the country to the safety of Brittany.
    Charles VI took arms against John V, but during the siege, was overcome with a turn of madness. Charles' uncles were convinced Olivier had caused the King's mad outbreak, so he had to take refuge in Brittany, where he met up with Duke John and, after the Duke's death, he received the honor of becoming the protector of the duchy, and of the young princess. Clisson gathered much wealth before he died. 

Queen Mary de Bohun

Queen Mary de Bohun was never actually queen, as she died before her husband, Henry IV was throned. She was the daughter of Humphery de Bohun and Joan FitzAlan.
Mary was the first wife of King Henry IV and she had six living children by him. The first of the children was Edward, who died atleast within the same month if not at birth and was buried at Monmouth Castle. Henry V of England, the first surviving, lived to become the next king of England after his father. Thomas, Duke of Clarence was second, third, John, Duke of Bedford, fifth, their eldest daughter Blanche, and sixth, Philippa of England and Queen of Denmark.
Mary died at Peterborough Castle, after giving birth to her last daughter, Philippa, on the fourth of June, 1394. She was buried at the Church of St. Mary de Castro in Liecester.