Sunday, October 8, 2023

barrett: 125 months old

 


How are we already in October, blasting our way to Halloween?  Then Thanksgiving, Christmas, and then before we even know it, it's already 2024.  Ugh.  Let's go back to Halloween!  Barrett was going to be Michael Jackson from Smooth Criminals, but has decided to be Brock from Pokemon instead. But the Michael Jackson love hasn't stopped!  We're going to go see MJ: The Musical in November!  He can wear his costume then.

Barrett is participating in school chorus this year, and already has a performance at the end of the month!  He enjoys singing, but not having to get up early twice a week to go to practice before school starts. Totally dude, I get it.


Likes:  Pokemon, the periodic table

Dislikes:  doing homework

Wednesday, October 4, 2023

170 months old



Happy October!  Oh, we love the witching month of October around here.  Britton especially loves all things pumpkin spice, and has happily sampled her way through all of the pumpkin-y options I've found.  Her favorite so far is an iced pumpkin spice latte with pumpkin cold foam and a caramel drizzle.  Not so good have been Dunkin Donuts's PSL, and their graham cracker PSL goldfish, yuck!  She's the only other person in our family besides me to unabashedly throw herself into the pumpkin spice goodness of this time of year.  For her costume this year, Britton is going as the Lego Batman fairy - we made her costume entirely out of things from Amazon.  Now I just need to spray paint that Batman mask pink!

Please allow me a moment to share an awesome softball game from last weekend.  Britton's team and another team were both the only undefeated teams in her league.  We didn't tell her, but as her team was playing their first game, the other undefeated team lost their game, so now Britton's team was playing to hold onto the undefeated title.  In the second game of her doubleheader, she hit a line drive between first and second bases while the bases were loaded, and managed to bring in all 3 for runs!  They won the game, and are all still so excited that they remain undefeated!  I'm so proud of the work she's put into softball.

Hitting well, getting on base

Likes:  softball, the cat, hoodies all the time

Dislikes: the constant Texas heat (even though she wears hoodies every day)