Five Brown Kids

The first person to list all twelve correctly in the comments gets a prize!

We headed down to Atlanta this past weekend for Taye's biggest swim meet ever!  He qualified to swim nine events at "sectionals" (Eastern Section of the Southern Zone for USA Swimming).  It was held at the Georgia Tech Swimming Pool, site of the 1996 Summer Olympics. We stayed at the Marriott Marquis downtown and it was perfect.  They had a really nice indoor/outdoor pool and I stayed with the little kids in the mornings so they could play while Taye was competing.  The water was nice and warm and Blythe was happy to float around with me. Friday afternoon we walked down to the Georgia Aquarium.  I heard it was not to be missed.  It was packed but did not disappoint!  The dolphin show at the end was amazing! Saturday afternoon we headed to the King Center to look around. We took a tour of MLK's birth house the next day and it was amazing.  He came from a very well to do family by any standard but sounded like su...

Crickett came to take beautiful baby photos the day after Christmas.

Blythe is three months old.  She is so sweet.  She's an awesome night time sleeper plus laughing, smiling and doing great pushups.

Jaxon's Odyssey of the Mind team won first place in the regional competition yesterday!  On to the state competition next month.   Last year he was the lone 3rd grader with a bunch of 5th grade boys.  This year his team is all 4th graders with lots of cute girls and the coaches are the best teachers you can imagine. The win was not without its challenges - the structure had to be adjusted at the last minute and that caused a few anxious tears(Jaxon would like me to note here that it was just some girls and not him).  With the changes it didn't hold nearly as much as they had hoped.  But they rocked in spontaneous and the skit so it all worked out.