Austin's Park n' Pizza

We were at Austin's Park n' Pizza this weekend for Ryan's birthday party.

Our fearless climber

Enjoying the rappell back down

Ryan, Carter, and Tyler

Flashing 'I love you' in sign language

Spring Shoot Out

Tyler's soccer team (Argentina) played in the Spring Shoot Out in Round Rock this past weekend. They had an awesome tournament. They ended up coming in 2nd place in their bracket with 2 wins, 1 tie, and 1 loss. Their favorite game was their win against Brazil, who is their local nemesis that shut them out earlier this season. Their teammate Jaxon normally plays in the field with Argentina but also plays goalie for Brazil and could only play for Brazil during the tournament. Team Argentina started out with a goal on the kick off and you could see how pumped up Argentina was throughout the whole game. The boys were thrilled to beat Brazil. It was a fun tournament and Tyler was definitely wiped out by the end of the weekend, especially since 3 of the 4 games were on Saturday.

Practicing throw-ins

Warming up

Pre-game strategy

Top (left to right): Dylan, Cooper, Nick, Andre, Luke, Coach Owain;
Bottom (left to right): Tyler, Jude, Nathan, Lincoln, and Ryker

Daphne 'Banana' Hurtado

Our little banana has been signing her name on artwork and other stuff as Daphne Banana Hurtado. That girl cracks me up!

Banana Language

Daphne continues to babble on in her banana language. She often responds to questions simply with "Banana!" or some mutation of the word banana. Michael asked her if she could teach him the banana language and she told him, "There's too much to cover." Recently after a stream of banana-bananoo gibberish Daphne told me "I speak all the languages... except the real ones."

Smart, Athletic, & Funny

I was looking through the recent batch of school work that Tyler brought home. On an English assignment he had to create a sentence using commas in a series with 3 or more items and he wrote: "I am smart, athletic, and funny." That gave me a good laugh. I asked him why he wrote about himself and he said he couldn't think of anything else!

Treeskirt is Back!

Our scout elf, Treeskirt, is back to keep an eye on the kids and report back to Santa about whether they have been naughty or nice. It seems to be working. Ever since Treeskirt has arrived Daphne has been keeping her room clean and making her bed every morning to gain brownie points.

December 4- Treeskirt arrived in the kitchen in a
Hello Fresh box with a note.

December 5- Poking out of the poinsettia

December 6- Relaxing on the couch wearing Daphne's husky
hoodie and draped in one of Tyler's cozy blankets

December 7- Hiding out in the liquor cabinet

December 8- Switched from liquor to wine

December 9- Marshmallow bubble bath

Penny, Hazel, and Daphne were quite thrilled to taste test the
marshmallow bubbles before breakfast

December 10- Calling attention that
we still have some ornaments to hang

December 11- Hanging out in the kitchen

Nutcracker School Performance

The 4th grade put on a really cute performance of the Nutcracker last week. Tyler was relieved that his class ended up as soldiers (boys) and mice (girls) and all he had to do was march and pretend sword fight with the mice.

Tyler is in the back on the left side.

Ryan and Tyler after the performance with the wood block
nutcrackers that they made in art class