"Just the highlights"

Dear Diary,

A lot has happened in the last few weeks, and I haven't been very good at keeping up to date on my writing. Unfortunately, I've run out of time to catch up, so here's some short posts to fill in the blanks.


January 14. Mommy and I went to the land she'd gotten for our vacation house. It turned out I WOULD have been allowed after all. Still, Mommy had decided she didn't want it anyways. We danced around a bit in the sand, and said goodbye to the place. We then looked at a few more houses, and Mommy made a decision that she wanted us to not move, but still have a new house... so soon, someone is gonna come and take our old house away and put up a new one! Crazy!


January 18. My friend Mari mentioned she was looking forward to camp. Mommy had asked me to find out about camp the next time it came up. It turned out that the registration day is TOMORROW! So, I got all the information from Mari that I could, and then I spent a very nervous day worrying about that. Today was also MOVING DAY.. and boy was it crazy. I dunno how they can take away and rebuild a house so fast, but I spent half the day trying to arrange my new room. There was also a lot of crazy busy-ness when a lady Mommy knows came over to our house, and then suddenly the lady was having her baby.. so there was lots of crazy busy stuff going on with calling the ambulance and so on. After that had happened.. Mommy and I spent the night arranging things some more, and hanging out together, trying to keep my mind off worrying about camp.


January 19. OMG I ACTUALLY GOT IN TO CAMP! Such a crazy day. They have a limited number of spaces, and a LOT more kids who want to go. So they have a kind of a race. All the kids sit by the computer and wait for the message that tells where the signup will be. Then we all go rushing to open that webpage. They were supposed to only let 5 kids in at a time, but something went wrong and 50 kids showed up at once. The system was overwhelmed, and my application went through, and then it spit the money back. So I sent it again, and it spit it back again. And by the time that had happened, all the spots were filled. They were crazy overwhelmed by all the things going wrong, so I didn't find out if I got in or not for nearly an hour. That was a really worrisome hour.


January 22. Yesterday, Mommy and I put a reading cubby in the closet in my room. A great place to hide and think. Today, Mommy had a surprise for me when I got home from school.. a new playhouse! It's like a second bedroom, but it's its own house in the backyard! There's a cool couch in there that's just my size! It's such an amazing playhouse, and it looks a lot like our house, same colors and everything! I can't wait til the snow melts, between my bicycle and the playhouse, there's so much to do outside that I can't do while it's snowing!


January 25. My baby sister was born last night. Ava Lee-Athanasius! She's so much tinier than Tatie was when I first saw him. Mommy went to the hospital while I was asleep, and Aunt Kelly came over stay with me and Tatie while Mommy is in the hospital.