Five Brown Kids

Taye swam in the annual Black Heritage championship meet. Swim teams from Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit and one crazy fast 13/14 boy from Virginia. The mood was festive - the music only stopped for the starter gun - and so fun for all the kids and parents to be surrounded by other black kids, parents, race officials etc. Taye got two second places and four third places.  Scotia had friends over to swim in the neighborhood pool. We had it all to ourselves.  Big D's family came over for a Memorial Day swim and BBQ. We had a really wonderful time playing at the pool and eating delicious food. They just feel like family friends coming over to hang out. Such a nice relationship! 

Scotia's end of year talent show and BBQ were wonderful. Perfect weather at an awesome park. She is so sad to be leaving third grade. 2016 talent show from jessica brown on Vimeo . Scotia is in the front corner closest to the camera.

She is serious about the goggles 

I am so lucky to have such wonderful friends. Another fun weekend wandering and shopping. 

Happy Birthday Courtney! 

We are slowly getting settled. We picked house #4 of course. Same as last time. New build on the last street of development in a great neighborhood. It was already done so we didn't get to pick anything but it's almost perfect (I would have picked lighter floors and a white kitchen)   The kitchen is unpacked, but not much else.  Blythe at story time. I love this long haired tattooed librarian. He always has an acoustic guitar or electric guitar or ukulele and Blythe loves to dance to his music.  Jaxon's twists. It's the latest hair style. He's such a cutie.  (He's at the pool so the hair sparkles are water...) 

Timing Taye in the 1 mile. Glad I was the timer and not the swimmer.