All Things Anne

Eric looking tough!

Now for the cute ones!

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Abby Grows Up

The other day Mom acquired a mattress, and since the big boys moved out of the room downstairs and the little boys moved onto the triple bunk bed, there was an extra bed frame. The twins, Tess, and Beth cleaned the little girls’ room (the twins and Tess share it), and moved the bedframe into there, and Abby moved into there too. Now the little girls’ room has the twins, Tess, and Abby, and the big girls’ room has just Beth and I. (Our room doesn’t have enough room for another bed.) Abby’s very excited to get her new bed! She’s rather confused, though, she calls both rooms hers now!

I’m not sure about Beth, but I kind of miss having her in our room. Actually, the first night her bed was in the twins’ room, she slept on Beth’s bed in our room! Yesterday Beth folded up the playpen Abby had been sleeping in. Soon Elle Jane will be sleeping in it in Mom’s room, when–oh, nevermind about that.

Month of No Sweets

Remember how we don’t eat sweets in the month of January? Well. Last night Dad came home, and he brought two boxes that looked like pizza boxes, and a gallon of milk. When I saw the pizza-like boxes, I thought, “Two pizzas? Dad knows we eat more than just two! Maybe they were a really good deal for just two.” Then he opened the box.

It wasn’t pizza.

It was donuts! Two dozen donuts!

Know what that means?

At just over two weeks, this is the record for the earliest we’ve stopped not eating sweets in January!

Last year, Dad brought home tons of Baklava and said we could have as much as we wanted, but we couldn’t say we were sweeted out. I think after that, we all were, though (of course) nobody admitted it!

Last night after everybody ate their donuts, I brought out my (unopened) package of Hershey’s kisses I’d gotten from the New Year’s party, and shared them around. Today everybody ate the popcorn cake a neighbor gave us (on January first); it was kind of stale. “Gives you a good jaw workout,” Ben said. Oh, and we had Apple Streusal bread for breakfast!

Here’s a couple funny things that were said yesterday.

Jay (to Abby): Did you drink my milk?
Abby: No. (pause) I just tasted it.

Abby (wanting Beth to read her a book): What does it say?
Beth (not wanting to read the book): Make it up. What’s in your head?
Abby: Hair!

Today
We’ve got a few inches of snow today and we’re expecting an “arctic front”. Sound lovely? I think I want to move to Arizona for the winter!