Teddy Bear Tea Party

*Thank you to Anna's teacher for taking and e-mailing this picture!*

Anna had her Teddy Bear Tea Party this morning at school! She knew just the bear she was going to take. She had him picked out earlier this week. She earned this bear when she was helping my Mom with a cleaning job. It is very special to her since she got it for working with Nona. The lady Mom cleans for thinks she is adorable (I mean, come on, look at the picture!) and gives her things here and there. Hopefully, the lady pays my Mom in check or cash, not stuffed animals. But to 4 year old Anna, a teddy bear is the best currency of all. The lady also gave her a really cute plush American Girl bathrobe. It will probably fit her appropriately when she is 7, but for now, it looks like a royal robe. She can be so regal at times. She has asked to take her bath and wants it ready so she can put it on immediately. It makes her happy because she doesn't even need a towel to dry off with. She has always wanted a bathrobe, she says, because Mama and Daddy have one. Daddy has the same one he has had since middle school. I think it is probably 15 years old, maybe more. It is pretty ratty but I always use his instead of mine. I am attached to it and I will be really sad when it finally disintegrates. We need to get Jonathan a bathrobe so he can fit in, but I can just imagine how much he would hate a bathrobe. I think he would probably say, that's stupid, why don't I just put my regular pajamas on right away? He probably wouldn't understand the need for this in-between, intermediate stage of clothing.

Anyways, Anna brought home from the tea party what I believe to be a teddy bear biscuit in aluminum foil. Jonathan tried it and said it tasted like a chicken nugget. Dave tried it and said it was more like brown sugar. I didn't try it, because I don't eat anything that comes home from school and was possibly cooked and handled by children (especially my own child!). Yet, I am the one who is always getting sick. Sigh...