Favorite Quote: "stay out of my privacy" and "you cant tell me I cant be upset and cry" ....The last one comes from when your grandmother would tell you stop being a "ball bag" A phrase I personally hated when I was growing up and still hate it. But you would get mad and tell her you can be upset and cry to leave you alone.
Scripture Verse:
2 Timothy 4
Preach the Word
4 I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom: 2 Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. 5 But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
Favorite Photo: (you in the train)
Bell and Pika are always laying down together weather Bell wants her near her or not. Poor Bell doesnt get a choice. She moves and Pike moves. She has finally given up and accepted her cat love.
When Pika is not harassing Bell you can always find her snuggled up with you :)
This cute little guy you gave me as a gift and I thought it was adorable. Gotta love the love emoji!
This pic says it all. You are like the dog whisperer. You got Drac, Max and Bell all lined up wanting your love. Although I didnt get them in the pic, your cats are sitting above Drac. lol
What else can I say here, just pure, sweet cuteness all the way around.
Where I hope to see you grow:
Favorite thing we are doing this month: We saw the Inc-edibles 2 Premier: You have been waiting and waiting for this movie and we got lucky that your Uncle won tickets to see it before anyone else!
New Sayings:
Struggles and Accomplishment:
Your Style:
I am going to start calling you "little Matthew". Every time Matthew comes around he feels the need to fart.In my car, my room...he thinks its hysterical. Yes, even at 23 this is how your brother is. Which is why Iam going to call you little Matthew too. You seem to think its just as funny and have started walking up to me to fart, laugh and run off. You wait to we get to the car and will say " I feel it coming on, oh oh Ive gotta fart, its going to be a big one" and things like that. All the while laughing your little butt off. You will walk into my bedroom and say "ooops I gotta fart, cant help it," then stand with your but poked out towards me and let it rip. Then shut the door and say "now you get to smell it" You and your brother deserve each other and need to live together in your own fart induced house. This is what I deal with daily all month long! OH and to top it off you have learned to make fart noises with your arm pits ! One more lovely delight I get to experience. Boys are a mess!
Height/Weight: ..........hhhhmmmm I would know this except someone, not naming names, but someone deleted all my notes in my phone kingmaker room for games.So no clue what your height and weight were this month..ggggrrrr
Favorite thing we
are doing this month:
1. Moving: That’s right! We FINALLY got our own place again. After
4 years almost of living with grandma and Uncle Shane we got our own apartment!
Now its us and all your little fur babies back in Mesquite living the life we
are more accustomed to. We both really love having our own place again and our
own space. We liked staying with your grandma and Uncle, but we stayed so much
longer than the 6 moths I had planned on staying. I felt like if we didn't move
now, it might be another 4 years before I actually put the effort into saving
up the money again to move.
2. Day Care: This is pretty much your last year of daycare and you
are having a great time at AppleSeed Academy doing all your field trips and
hanging out with your old friends again. just this month you went to Dallas
Children's Theater to see "How I Became a Pirate," went to the
World Aquarium, Crayola Experience and so many more places it’s ridiculous. You
go on 2-3 field trips each week. RIGHT!
3. Internet! We have
gone 4 years without internet and I thought you might actually die on me you
were so bumbed out over it. Finally though we are back in the land of the
internet and you can play all our online games. Right now it’s all about
Fortnight though for you. You have been dying to play this game and now you
can! To say you are happy is an understatement.
If you had extra money....
The book that has affected you the most....
Your greatest fear: For some reason its shadows on the wall being people
waiting to break into the apartment. You never worried about things like this
before, but I guess its been so long since you had your own room that your mind
is playing tricks on you at night time. Sadly your lovely little kitten, Loki,
likes to play with the blinds at night which only makes the shadows worse and
freaks you out more. Secretly I think your cat is messing with you because you
are sleeping and not playing with him when he wants to.
Favorite foods: Right now it’s pretty much anything soft because you lost 2 of your
molars this month and you are struggling to eat food. You have been living on
twinkies I think for breakfast and would eat them all day and night if I would
let you.
Music you are loving: Whatever
it Takes by Imagine Dragons. This is the theme song to WWE right now and you
walk around singing this song and turn it up in the car because "it’s my
jam"! You are also into Drake's God's Plan still and I Can Only Imagine by
Mercy Me. As you can see your music taste is all over the place, just like your
mother's. Your sister has rap, Matthew has 80's music, James has
digital music and you kinda got it all.
Favorite You Tubers: Not so much you tubers as its been a type of video flooding the internet. LIP SYNC BATTLE: Law enforcement officers from Texas have challenged
each other to an epic lip sync battle. Their serenades have gone viral
-- who do you think won?
1. Bexar County Sheriff Department's "Fuiste Mala" by the group The Kumbia Kings.
2. San Antonio Police Officer J. Quiroz felt inspired to film his own
lip-sync. Sitting in a car just as Deputy Mena did, Officer Quiroz took a
video of himself mouthing the words to a crowd favorite: *NYSNC's "Bye
Bye Bye."
3. Robstown, Texas, Police Department shared their own lip-sync, singing The Backstreet Boys'
"Everybody (Backstreet's Back) and Selena's "Bidi Bidi Bom Bom"
This all started back in 2015 actually and just kept going. We happen to run across it this month so spent hours watching these videos and they were all hysterical.
TV Shows:
You love watching The Voice with your grandmother. During on the shows they announced they were coming to Dallas and you wanted to sign up to audition. SO I singed you up to sing I can Only Imagine by Mercy Me and you got all excited to go and then we received an email a couple hours before your audition that you had to be 13 to participate. Sadly you were only 11 and were refused the audition.
Games you are into:
What has impressed me most about you this month:
Favorite Photo:
Where I hope to see you grow: You were doing so great with
your attitude for the last 2 months. Now, its coming back to you having a
snippy voice with me and not wanting me to speak basically. You go through
these phases when things are great, then you are a brat. You start getting
defiant, refuse to listen, back talk, refuse to clean up after yourself, ignore
me, etc. When you get like this nothing I say matters to you and you will sit
and argue with me and then say you are not backtalking!! It drives me crazy and
takes everything in me not to yell at you or smack you for being so rude and
disrespectful to me. Instead I just started turning off your game systems and
refusing to let you swim or go anywhere until your attitude straightens out.
Favorite Stories:
Favorite Food: Grilled Huli Huli Chicken
- 4 pounds boneless skinless chicken thighs, chicken breasts also work
- 1 cup unsweetened pineapple juice
- ½ cup soy sauce
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ⅓ cup ketchup
- ¼ cup chicken broth
- 2 teaspoons fresh ginger root, grated
- 1½ teaspoons minced garlic
- green onions, sliced for garnish
- In
a medium sized bowl, whisk together pineapple juice, soy sauce, brown
sugar, ketchup, chicken broth, ginger and garlic. Reserve 1 cup sauce
for basting. Add the chicken thighs and sauce to a ziplock bag and
marinate at least 3 hours or overnight.
- Grill
chicken, covered, over medium heat for 6-8 minutes on each side or
until no longer pink. Baste occasionally with reserved marinade during
the last 5 minutes. Garnish with green onions if desired
Your Style: Does walking around naked count as a "style". You would
walk naked all the time if I did not get onto you. so instead you wrap the
towel around your head and claim you are not naked because you have a towel.
You are just your own unique duck is all I can say at this point.
What you want to be when you grow up: We are back to wanting to be a wrestler. Your back up plan is a video game designer. As least something changed I guess!!
1. First day of school: This month you started a new school at Cannaday Elementary for 5th grade. Your homeroom teacher is Mrs. Ellexson and you seem to like her pretty good. Its a new school, new friends, new apartment so lots of changes this month for you to adjust to. Luckily, you were able to make some friends at the apartment we live in that go to school with you so that helped ease your fears. Jayveon is your best friend right now and he spends alot of time at the apartments and this is his first year at Cannaday too. You guys walk to and from school together.
3. Typical Pre-School: we did alot of the typical pre-back to school things. We went to the back to school fairs, finished off baseball season with the Rangers and Frisco Rough Riders, etc. Honestly by this time of the year we are all ready for baseball to be over. The bad news though for the Rangers is that this was Adrian Beltre's last season. He officially retired. We were lucky enough to be there when he did his farewell home game and it was so touching the way everyone on both teams rallied around him to show love, respect and support for the new chapter in his life. My favorite thing though was the beautiful candle holder and painting you made me during the summer at AppleSeed that you picked up on the last day of daycare. You know how much I adore having candles lit around the house and I had been complaining about always setting them on plates so you were listening to me and made me such a loving and thoughtful gift. The painting was just as thoughtful too, we like to attend painting with a twist classes together and this time you made me my very own painting. 
