Scaaaared.

It's Grace again, haaay!

And I've been noticing strange behavior around my house lately. Ever since we got news that our family might have a new addition [Ruthie], nobody's been acting themselves. It's pretty weird considering that I've known every single one of these girls since February, and things just keep getting weirder.

For instance, Samantha hasn't touched the tote bag that she started sewing in May since we got word on Ruthie. She's been spending more time looking at magazines and catalogs.

On the contrary, Kristy hasn't touched her dance outfit, and she didn't beg and plead for dance classes this summer. She's been spending so much time in the mirror, doing her makeup and washing her hair and a LOT of singing before dinner and after she takes a shower.

Felicity hasn't bothered with climbing trees or fishing or doing any of the daring or bold things that she loves to do. She's been out in the barn practicing tricks with her horses, and grooming them.

Kit hasn't been reading that much, She's been scrawling ideas for writing prompts such as stories and news papers, and typing them on her typewriter. I heard her explaining to Beth that she will put them all in a binder to keep forever.

Julie hasn't been playing with Nutmeg, her pet bunny, or passing out recycling pamphlets at the mall or protesting to stop pollution and prevent global warming. She's been being all Kristy-like and watching what she wears instead of wearing her hippie clothes. She hasn't touched her favorite peasant blouse since before we got word on Ruthie.

Rebecca's been singing and dancing more often. She sings every night with Kristy. She dances at the mall to earn a few coins. She normally chooses loud, outgoing, sparkly costume-like, but still fashionable clothes, but lately she's been going with more sensible clothes such as shorts and flip flops. She hasn't asked Chrissa to sew her any theater costumes since Ruthie. In fact, she demanded that Chrissa stop sewing her Miss Hannigan costume and start knitting her a french beret.

Speaking of Chrissa, even little Chrissa's been acting weird. Her pottery wheel is getting a tad dusty, and she's been hiding her hand-made [but still AMAZING] costumes and her countless balls of yarn under her bed, and she quit wearing her costumes for a while and started wearing more grown up stuff like jeans [which she hated to the core until now] and sneakers [also hated.]

Bailey's been skating more often. She stays out at the skate park with her friends until after dinner, and she's been attending more batting, catching, and pitching clinics every morning with her friends to improve her skill. She also stopped wearing ponytails and switched to headbands.

Lanie stopped her vegetable garden and started a whole flower garden. She's growing lilies, lilacs, daisies, tulips, roses, and hyacinths. She's been re-doing her curls every other day and starts speaking her mind more often instead of sitting back quietly.

Bethie, poor, dearest Bethie seems to be the worst of them all. She's been a ton more secretive about everything. When asked what she did today at dinner, she immediatly replied "Nothing!" very, very quickly. She's been sitting at the window watching the nothingness going on outside, and when I asked what she's doing "Oh, haha! It's nothing really, you see I'm just, uh, watching the birds. Yup, it's a new hobby of mine. Grace you should try it sometime. Well, gotta go, bye!" As she backs away and heads up the stairs. She's been sitting for countless hours on her beanbag chair with her headphones in staring at the screen whispering to herself "It's impossible." Over and over again. It's really suspicious. Lanie tried asking what was wrong the other day, and she said "Nothing! Lanie, what are you talking about? Haha, silly girl!" Then she ran away. I'm scared for her. I don't know what's going on, but I won't rest until I find out.

Even I'VE been acting differently. I obviously haven't blogged in a while and I've been ignoring my library card that lay on my bedside table. Plus, neglecting the books below said bedside table that I've been itching to read all summer, and spending more time looking in the mirror and practicingmy audition for Glee Club, or Show Choir as they say at our new school.

It's like Ruthie's set the bar so high that everyone's trying to impress her when she arrives. I don't know what's going through my head, or even all my sister's, but I'm not sure I'm going to like the results......

~Grace~

New Background and Design!

Okay, okay. So I'm here at Erin's house with our sisters, Erin's sisters, and Emma from The Lost Get Found and her sisters. It's pretty awesome. Or, "epic" as Erin says. We're here for the Awards Ceremony that Ruthie gave us. Erin and I got the award for 'best un-alike twins.' Erin wore her sundress [no shock there, really] and I wore my blue dress. I looked awesome. Ruthie says that blue is definitely my color.

We haven't really updated our blog lately, but Sonny, Beth, and Emma have! Read their blogs for updates on what's been going on. We leave tomorrow afternoon, and Emma's family leaves a little before us. They have a longer flight to get back to Minnesota [or Minnesnowta, as the Kits call it] so they have to leave first.

We changed our blog template! Of course, Erin chose the background. She wanted to find one relating to The Beatles, but no luck :(. I like the new background, too. I chose the layout and the color template. Erin didn't care what she did as long as she got to choose the background.

Erin and I have been having tons of fun. We've been spending time in Erin's secret hideout [remember The Yurt?] and we brought Chelsea's Chrissa and Lanie with us. They absolutely adored it, so we took them back everyday.

Any opinions on our new layout?

~Grace~