HAPPY 12th BIRTHDAY TO CAITLIN!!!!!!!!!!!
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Friday, March 29, 2013
I can not believe it has been since September since I have updated!
Yikes!
We have been doing so much. Theater, basketball, girl scouts......it never stops!
THEATER: Caitlin was the Sour Kangaroo in Suessical at the Starlight Theater and then we were both in Fiddler on the Roof (she was a daughter and I was Fruma Sara/Ensemble). Then we took a break from the Starlight for a while and she auditioned for some other companies and ended up choosing to do Oliver with the Lakeland Players, and of course I joined too! So she is an orphan and I am Old Annie and a Townsperson. Great show, lots of dancing and moving around. So far we are really liking this company and Caitlin even wants to go to their Theater Camp this summer! There are a lot of kids her ago that actually are interested in theater and not just a place to be obnoxious and hang out with friends. They are constantly singing show tunes and talking about theater stuff. It is fun to see! She has such a great new group of friends!
SCHOOL: Caitlin is loving 6th grade. It is a much better place for her than grade school was. She still doesn't have a lot of friends, but has a few and a few from theater also. She enjoys Art and Science and is very good at History! Not so much with Math and we have enrolled her in an after school program called "Math Mania" to see if it helps her. She was on the Honor Roll for the first term and we are hoping to help her grasp the division of decimals soon so she can get her Math grade back up this term to be on the Honor Roll again.
SPORTS: Sometimes she loves basketball, sometimes she hates it. I think it depends on how much sleep she had the night before....hmmmm....... Her team finished the season with 5 wins and 11 losses. We were really working on being aggressive and keeping the other teams from doing anything with the ball. She loves the "Jungle Book" movie so we started yelling "King Louie" when she would forget to keep her arms up. The last game she was all over the other girl, who kept saying "get off me", but Cait remained on her and she had to pass the ball every time because Cait wasn't letting her past.
She loves archery and loves the coach. Jeff bought her a bow for Christmas and they get out in the back yard and shoot at targets out there. I think he thinks that she will be his hunting buddy. I think not, this is the girl who will make my stop in the driveway after it rains so she can get the worms into the grass so I don't kill them! Can't see her shooting a deer, but you never know.........
GIRL SCOUTS: We are busy planning our big end of the year trip to Mackinac Island in June. We are staying in cabins for two nights. We are hanging out at Mill Creek Discovery Park where the girls will get to explore the mill, go wall climbing on a 50 ft wall, do a canopy walk through the trees, and zip line a 425 ft line over a pond. Should be big fun. Then we are off to enjoy a Lumberjack show. Then the following day we are going to the island and taking a Carriage tour of the island, going to the Butterfly Conservatory, eating at the Grand Hotel, exploring the fort and possibly staying late for a Ghost Walk/Tour. Then the third day we are taking a Lighthouse Tour, exploring Mackinaw City and maybe taking a tour of the Icebreaker. Whew, I am tired just typing about it. We have 1 girl not going because her Mom can't go...and 1 girl not going because she can't dress herself?? and when Mom asked if we could help her, I said No! I told her if the girl is not self sufficient by June then she shouldn't really go. She is 12 after all, and nothing is wrong with her except for the fact that her Mom admits to doing EVERYTHING for her.
I have been busy busy doing cookie booth stuff and badge work. We did the New Cuisine's Badge during the last meeting. The girls made salsa, hummus and Ugandan Meatballs (in honor of the shoe boxes that we packed for kids that went to Uganda at Christmas). We also sampled Chicken Shawarma and Pad Thai. They had a blast and enjoyed it all! We also had my partner Rob come in to do the Special Agent CSI badge. We did a crime scene sketch, fingerprinting, evidence collection, lie detecting, and other fun stuff. The girls said it was the best meeting EVER!
This May we are staying over night at the Binder Park Zoo in Battle Creek. I am busy trying to get that planned, paid for, organized, etc...Jeff says I spend an awful lot of my time with the Girl Scout stuff. But I don't mind, especially when I know they are enjoying it!
Caitlin and I took a trip to the Detroit Zoo this winter. We had a great time. It was sooooo cold. We were surprised when we were leaving though...we looked up at the banner advertising the Summer Safari camp and saw Caitlin on it (in the blue shirt giving two thumbs up)! Of course she will be doing at least one week again this summer. She wanted to go to the traveling one that goes to all of the area zoos and then comes back to design the "perfect" habitat based on what they did or didn't like, but they cancelled it this year. So instead she is going to a Zoo Sleuth one where they will have to unravel clues all week throughout the zoo. Sounds fun.
Caitlin, her friend Olivia and I went to see the Lion King at the Detroit Opera House for her birthday. She chose that instead of a party or anything this year. It is one of her favorites and was her second time seeing it on stage. She shoveled the deck and front walk to earn money to buy herself something special there. It is one of my favorites also so we had a blast!
Yikes!
We have been doing so much. Theater, basketball, girl scouts......it never stops!
THEATER: Caitlin was the Sour Kangaroo in Suessical at the Starlight Theater and then we were both in Fiddler on the Roof (she was a daughter and I was Fruma Sara/Ensemble). Then we took a break from the Starlight for a while and she auditioned for some other companies and ended up choosing to do Oliver with the Lakeland Players, and of course I joined too! So she is an orphan and I am Old Annie and a Townsperson. Great show, lots of dancing and moving around. So far we are really liking this company and Caitlin even wants to go to their Theater Camp this summer! There are a lot of kids her ago that actually are interested in theater and not just a place to be obnoxious and hang out with friends. They are constantly singing show tunes and talking about theater stuff. It is fun to see! She has such a great new group of friends!
SCHOOL: Caitlin is loving 6th grade. It is a much better place for her than grade school was. She still doesn't have a lot of friends, but has a few and a few from theater also. She enjoys Art and Science and is very good at History! Not so much with Math and we have enrolled her in an after school program called "Math Mania" to see if it helps her. She was on the Honor Roll for the first term and we are hoping to help her grasp the division of decimals soon so she can get her Math grade back up this term to be on the Honor Roll again.
SPORTS: Sometimes she loves basketball, sometimes she hates it. I think it depends on how much sleep she had the night before....hmmmm....... Her team finished the season with 5 wins and 11 losses. We were really working on being aggressive and keeping the other teams from doing anything with the ball. She loves the "Jungle Book" movie so we started yelling "King Louie" when she would forget to keep her arms up. The last game she was all over the other girl, who kept saying "get off me", but Cait remained on her and she had to pass the ball every time because Cait wasn't letting her past.
She loves archery and loves the coach. Jeff bought her a bow for Christmas and they get out in the back yard and shoot at targets out there. I think he thinks that she will be his hunting buddy. I think not, this is the girl who will make my stop in the driveway after it rains so she can get the worms into the grass so I don't kill them! Can't see her shooting a deer, but you never know.........
GIRL SCOUTS: We are busy planning our big end of the year trip to Mackinac Island in June. We are staying in cabins for two nights. We are hanging out at Mill Creek Discovery Park where the girls will get to explore the mill, go wall climbing on a 50 ft wall, do a canopy walk through the trees, and zip line a 425 ft line over a pond. Should be big fun. Then we are off to enjoy a Lumberjack show. Then the following day we are going to the island and taking a Carriage tour of the island, going to the Butterfly Conservatory, eating at the Grand Hotel, exploring the fort and possibly staying late for a Ghost Walk/Tour. Then the third day we are taking a Lighthouse Tour, exploring Mackinaw City and maybe taking a tour of the Icebreaker. Whew, I am tired just typing about it. We have 1 girl not going because her Mom can't go...and 1 girl not going because she can't dress herself?? and when Mom asked if we could help her, I said No! I told her if the girl is not self sufficient by June then she shouldn't really go. She is 12 after all, and nothing is wrong with her except for the fact that her Mom admits to doing EVERYTHING for her.
I have been busy busy doing cookie booth stuff and badge work. We did the New Cuisine's Badge during the last meeting. The girls made salsa, hummus and Ugandan Meatballs (in honor of the shoe boxes that we packed for kids that went to Uganda at Christmas). We also sampled Chicken Shawarma and Pad Thai. They had a blast and enjoyed it all! We also had my partner Rob come in to do the Special Agent CSI badge. We did a crime scene sketch, fingerprinting, evidence collection, lie detecting, and other fun stuff. The girls said it was the best meeting EVER!
This May we are staying over night at the Binder Park Zoo in Battle Creek. I am busy trying to get that planned, paid for, organized, etc...Jeff says I spend an awful lot of my time with the Girl Scout stuff. But I don't mind, especially when I know they are enjoying it!
Caitlin and I took a trip to the Detroit Zoo this winter. We had a great time. It was sooooo cold. We were surprised when we were leaving though...we looked up at the banner advertising the Summer Safari camp and saw Caitlin on it (in the blue shirt giving two thumbs up)! Of course she will be doing at least one week again this summer. She wanted to go to the traveling one that goes to all of the area zoos and then comes back to design the "perfect" habitat based on what they did or didn't like, but they cancelled it this year. So instead she is going to a Zoo Sleuth one where they will have to unravel clues all week throughout the zoo. Sounds fun.
Caitlin, her friend Olivia and I went to see the Lion King at the Detroit Opera House for her birthday. She chose that instead of a party or anything this year. It is one of her favorites and was her second time seeing it on stage. She shoveled the deck and front walk to earn money to buy herself something special there. It is one of my favorites also so we had a blast!
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