Hi!  My name is Jeremy Blaize Hughes; I am nine years old.  I live in Spokane, Washington, with my mommy, daddy, and younger sister, Tatiana Morgana, who is eight.

Both Tatiana and I were adopted.  Morgana was adopted from Russia; I came from Korea. 

When you first see me, you will notice two things.  I am very tiny.  I am only as big as a one year old baby, if that.  I weigh less than 20 pounds.  I was born with something called primordial dwarfism, which is a very rare, extreme form of dwarfism. 

In addition, I have a trache tube in my throat.  My lungs were weak, underveloped, so I couldn't breathe that good.  I needed a little help.

I breathe with this tube, but I can talk, eat just fine. 

Mommy sometimes worries that someone will knock the tube out of my throat (or pull it out), but so far that hasn't happened.  I am very careful, and I don't play rock-em, sock-em rough games like football or soccer. 

I know better.

Mommy wasn't married until this past September; she had been seeing a guy named Mark Egginton, and they fell in love.  They soon got engaged; this past September, they got married.  So now I have a new daddy in my life.  He's really nice; he loves to do things with me, and he tells the best jokes.

He's always making me laugh. 

Like most kids, I love to do many things.  I love to play video games, play on the computer (I am very computer smart), read, watch "Power Rangers", "Spongebob Squarepants", and "American Gladiators" on tv, and write stories.  I am very good at video games and at writing; my teacher's always hanging my writing papers on the walls at school.  She is very proud of me.

I am very proud of myself, too.  I study, work hard at school.  I want to make my family proud of me.

Once a month, if I continue to keep up my grades, my mommy and step-daddy take me out for pizza at Shakey's Pizza. 

Tonight we are going to go out for pizza.  I am going to have what I usually have:  a tomato, cheese, and pineapple pizza, which is my very favorite!  Yum!!

I love going out for pizza because I get to sit on the table and eat.  LOL  I am little enough.  I sometimes get stared at, but I get annoyed, tell people to get a life, to mind their own business.  That usually shuts 'em up or make them stop staring.

Mommy says I am very pig-headed.  I have to be.  I have to in order to make it in this world.  I'm like a little doll in a big-people world; I have to do things my way, or else it's the highway.  :)

I have no choice.

Well, I am going to go now.  It's soon time for music class.  I love music class; that's another thing I love to do:  sing.  Maybe one day I can sing on "American Idol"; I believe I could be good enough! :)

David Archuleta or David Cook, eat your hearts out!

~Love, your friend, Jeremy Blaize Hughes-Egginton, age 9.  :)