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Life Is Great!

Why we love mom and dad and friends and chicken-noodle soup.

Andy Berman

Noah Gaber

Zachary Reider

ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM
AppleTree Editor

A

s Thanksgiving Day
approaches, students
and teachers in the
kindergarten-first grade
Sunday school class at the
Birmingham Temple talk about
what they most appreciate in
their lives. (Katie and Amanda
had to miss the photo session.)

Noah Gaber, 6, of Bloomfield
Hills:
"Well, mostly [I'm grateful for]
my family. My dad's real nice and
funny and my sister is playful
and my mom's pretty funny, too.

Also, my uncle and my uncle's

Michael Hirsch

Cameron Bailer

Baxter Trapp

dog live with us. The dog wants
to eat human food but he can't.
He mostly likes all kinds of
human food, and he's very play-
ful."

Andy Berman, 5, of West
Bloomfield:

"I'm grateful for my brother,
Koby. He's 8."

Cameron Bailer, "I'm 5 and
3 /4 ," of Birmingham:
'Wm glad to have] my friends.

There's two brothers, Matt and
Alex, and the other friends'
names are Eva and R.J. What we
all like to do is eat, and we
almost all like pizza and those lit-
tle pizza bagels."

Teacher Jessica Gardin Rose

Michael Hirsch, 5, of Franklin:
"[I'm grateful for] my dad. He

plays with me a lot, and my mom,
she lets me do the computer."

Zachary Reider, 6, of West
Bloomfield:
"I play with my friends. One is
named Brittany and one is named
Lauren. Brittany and I play Power

Rangers and we play wrestling, and
that's it."

Baxter Trapp, 12, of Farmington
Hills — Teacher's Aide:
"I'm grateful for my parents. They
let me go to school to learn, and they
let me play sports and they play with
me a lot. My dad plays hockey with

me."

Katie Voight, 4, of Birmingham:
"I like my sister, Hannah. We play
Chutes and Ladders and when you
get 100 you win and my sister heated
me. She always beats me because she's
the oldest and the toughest."

Amanda Howard, 4, of
Birmingham:
"I'm glad for my family. Well,

my dad is very silly. He lets me ride
on his back. My mom is very seri-
ous. She cooks yummy things like
soup. My favorite is chicken noo-
dle.

Jessica Gardin Rose of Southfield
— Teacher:
"I'm grateful for these wonderful
children and a great teacher's aide." ❑

11/22

2002

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