Elizabeth's Gift and Unpleasantville

I've been doing a lot of acting lately. Mom was awesome enough to come up and help watch the kids while I filmed my first feature film called 'Elizabeth's Gift'. I played an awesomely eccentric homeless woman named Devine, who runs guns for a thug, then saves the day in the end by hitting him over the head with a night stick. It was an amazing and exhausting experience.

This past weekend I was able to fulfill an acting dream and be made up with full FX makeup. I was a Bug Momma monster in a short film called 'Unpleasantville'. It's a fun and colorful film and I'm so happy that I got to be a part of it!

The Diva and The Weirdo

Kate and Jack love to dance. Put on music, any music, and they dance. Jack will even dance to songs on his Scooby Doo cartoons. They get these great faces when they dance and there's a lot of kicking and booty shaking. This day, they wanted me to just play songs and video them dancing. The second one is the longest but stay with it...they have to get through the first 20 seconds of drumming before they start dancing. Once they do, though, you can hear me laughing, especially at Jack's face at the end. Enjoy.

The Weirdo

Jack has earned himself a nickname. He is "The Weirdo". It seems mean, I know, but it is truly appropriate. He does stuff every day that makes us laugh. More often these days, Brian and I find ourselves looking at each other and trying not to laugh at the stuff Jack does. I'm sure it must be difficult standing out in a family with a diva for a sister and a bigger diva for a mom, so I guess this is Jack's way of getting noticed. We love it when The Weirdo comes out and try to document it as often as possible!

Jack's First Day of Preschool

Shortly after Kate starting kindergarten, Jack started Super-Stars preschool. He was very excited to say he was in school too. We treated the day the same as Kate's first day and he felt very special! Because preschool was after kindergarten, Kate was able to support her brother. Jack did great, didn't cry and was super excited to be the only boy in his class!