Eva (age 10):
Likes to impersonate Patrick Warburton and Sponge Bob. It's equally hilarious and annoying as hell.
Is in her final year of elementary school (she is my first child that I will have to send to junior high for 6th grade. I've managed to evade it until now).
Really wanted to watch Stranger Things but knew it wasn't the best for her age, so I reactivated an old Vid Angel account so she can watch it filtered.
Gets away with way too much.
Always wants to play "candy shop" or "library," and we are forced to be her patrons.
Zoe (age 13):
Is doing surprisingly well in junior high. I keep waiting for something to go devastatingly wrong.
Has learned a lot of new cooking and homemaking skills in school.
Has such long beautiful hair and has no idea how lucky she is!
Talks in weird voices and mispronounces everything (and tries my patience in doing so).
Likes to bug people (and tries my patience in doing so).
Is thriving on opportunities to be independent (going to the movie theater or rec center with a friend, walking around stores and buying stuff with her own debit card, etc).
Claims that she's not comfortable in a clean bedroom.
Asks for donuts every Saturday and loves breakfast burritos right now.
Had a growth spurt recently and has gotten really tall. Sometimes when I walk in the room, I think she's Daisy.
Daisy (age16):
Has her drivers license and gets herself where she needs to be (but doesn't like going anywhere beyond that).
Has a "big, fat crush" (her words) on Robert Irwin, Glen Powell, Ryan Gosling, Malachi Barton, Benson Boone, and Chris Pratt (and I probably missed five more).
Goes to physical therapy twice a week for her back.
Just finished doing a student directed play (Cyrano de Bergarac) in which she drew a mustache on herself and died in a sword fight (one of the nights, she actually got cut by the sword and her hand was bleeding).
Is starting to work on her theatre piece for the region competition. She will also be working on a play for her theatre team (a Robin Hood deal), and she is assisting Jasmine in the Unified (special education) production of Aladdin Jr.
Was just released as president of her Young Women class.
Nicky (age 19):
Calls us on Mondays.
Seems a little tired of rice and beans.
Keeps a good attitude.
Has acclimated to the Caribbean climate and gets cold when the temp is in the 70's.
Loves cheesecake and gets some any time he can.
Has a strange desire to not purchase any toiletries on his mission and will do things like take his mission companion's empty soap bottle out of the garbage can and fill it with water and shake it to make suds.
Is always finding animals and carrying them around.
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