Zoe Sophia Uhl.....

Okey dokey...I think it's about time I put a post up that's all about a little darlin named Zoe. I babysit and "teach" her every Tuesday and Wednesday mornings. She is a character....She's the youngest in the family and also the only girl out of 4 kids...so she's sort of a little princess. She's about 2 1/2 years old, but I tell you, she thinks she runs the Uhl houshold...

She can really be a sweetie, though. Sometimes she'll just be standing next to me and all of a sudden look up at me and say, "Hold you?" So, I'll pick her up and she'll say, "I wus you!" (I love you, in Zoe Language). So adorable....

And Zoe loves her Gracie. Well I love her too!

Just about every morning that I go over there, we go for a walk. No matter what the weather is. (Unless is SUPER cold...or pouring down rain...) But, most mornings we go for a walk in the park and around their neighborhood. And while we walk, I usually sing to her. Mostly broadway songs...ha ha. My most popular songs to sing to her are: "Off To Massachusetts" from Little Women: The Musical, "Some Things Are Meant To Be" from Little Women: The Musical, "Once Upon A December" from Disney's Anastasia, "Reflection" from Disney's Mulan, and others. But, those are her favorites. Yesterday, she asked me to sing the "ride a kite" song (which is "Some Things Are Meant To Be" the first line is: "Let's pretend we're riding on a kite..." Then she wanted me to sing "Matchachusetts"...so cute!

She can be pretty canaille (that's pronounced cuh-NIE for all you illiterate Cajuns!)*** too. She was sitting in a white rocking chair and banging it against the wall, which wasn't gonna be too good for the paint. So, I told her to stop and she did. But, of course, as soon as I turned away from her to talk to John Vincent (her brother), she started again. I turned back to look at her and I just looked at her real seriously and didn't say anything. At first, she had a really ashamed and guilty expression on her face, but after a second, she smiled real big (and I was still frowning at her) and said "I wus you too!!!"

Also, the other day, when she got a spanking for ripping some paint off her wall, she got up after her dad was finished spanking her and said "That hurt my butt!"....Zoe, Zoe, Zoe. She make me laugh.

She has a kitchen that has a bunch of fake food and she always gives me some in a bowl. As soon as her back is turned, I hide the food behind a pillow or in my pocket or something. When she comes back, I say "Ooo! That was good! Thank you!" And I give her the empty bowl. The expression on her face is simply priceless! She is so confused! She looks in my hands, then back to the bowl. Then she opens my mouth and says, "You eat it?" Later, when I show her where the food was hidden she just says, "Thank you".

There is alot more that I could say about Zoe, but I think I'll stop here for now. I know that there'll be more funny stories in the future though! So, I'll just be going now!

***Spelling and pronounciation sentence from the Future Dr. Nichole Crocco

Pictures from Showcase

Here are some pictures from Showcase!!

Me and Natalie Sibille. I'm Millie Dillmount for "Gimme, Gimme", the song from Thoroughly Modern Millie. The musical takes place in the 1920's. Natalie is Lucy Harris from Jekyll and Hyde and she sang "Someone Like You". That musical takes place in the late 1800's (I think....tell me if I'm wrong, Natalie). So, we had fun wearing our old-fashioned costumes for curtain call!

That's my mother dear all decked out for the "witch skit". That skit has a wonderful story behind it that just wouldn't be the same written down, so if anybody ever wants to know, you gotta ask me in person!

That would me me with "Mr." Duncan. No, actually I don't call him "Mr." anymore, but I did for the longest time. It drove him crazy and made everybody else laugh at and tease me. But I call him just Duncan now :-)

Gracie Danae and Tessa Danae posing together backstage! Yes, we have the same middle name! Isn't that crazy!? Two Danaes...

Me and Hannah Stewart. She was in Showcase last year and again this year. She sings country songs. Hannah's a really fun person....she always makes me laugh.

Me and Taylor Reed. I love Taylor. She was with me in the very first play that I was in at the Opelousas Little Theatre. We got really close during that. Then she moved to Los Angelos for awhile and so we kinda lost touch, but I'm really happy to be back in touch with her again, now!

Alex Whittington is one of the coolest and most mature 12 year old boys I've ever met. He's really nice and a GREAT actor. He impresses me and he's just so professional with his acting, and he only just started doing any acting this summer! Alex is awesome.
Okay, this is a really awkward "getting ready" picture of Ethan, Natalie S. and Megan. They're in the make up room doing hair and make up stuff.

Me and Natalie LaCombe, all ready for the show to start!

"Little" Natalie, Rose, and Casey playing around before showtime....Casey is SO funny. He cracks me up, no matter what he's saying, he finds a way to make it hilarious...

Me and Natalie Sibille in our costumes for "That Wicky Wacky Hula Hula Honka Wonka Honolulu Hawaiian Honey Of Mine", our first number.

The entire cast of "Omigod You Guys" from Legally Blonde: The Musical. Left to right we are: Tara Sibille (Store Manager), Taylor Reed (Delta Nu #3/Serena US/Pilar US), Natalie LaCombe (Serena), Tessa Vander Molen (Kate), Ashley Nicole (Pilar), Gracie Feucht (Margot), Rachel Vander Molen (Delta Nu #2), Becca Vander Molen (Delta Nu #1), Natalie Sibille (Elle Woods), and Paula Feucht (Courtney=Snobby Saleslady)...fun fun fun!

Mrs. Tara, Natalie Sibille, and Mom!The Delta Nu's: Rachel/Delta Nu #2, Taylor/Delta Nu #3, Tessa/Kate, Becca/Delta Nu #1, Natalie L./Serena, Gracie/Margot, Ashley/Pilar, Natalie S./Elle.

Daughter of Delta Nu, soon to be fiance.

Now that a man chose you, your life begins today...

Me as Margot! "Mad Props!"

Showcase Opening Night!

Last night was WONDERFUL!! We had a wonderful audience for Opening Night! It feels really good to be onstage again. I hadn't been in any shows since July when we were in "Broadway On 2nd Street". That's a long time! I'm in a few skits a few songs and I love it! My two favorite things that I'm in are "Gimme, Gimme" (not to be confused with "Gimme Gimme Gimme A Mand After Midnight" by ABBA) my solo. It's a song from the musical "Thoroughly Modern Millie". It's the first time I've done a song that's not really "cute". It's really dramatic. And, it was a pretty challenging song to sing. There are two notes that are just belted out and they aren't really the easiest notes to belt, but according to the people in the cast, I do them really well. I can't quite believe that I can sing that song...and sing it well, so it was really, really exciting, last night, when I finished my song and the audience just went crazy! It made my spirits soar and my heart feel really happy! I couldn't stop smiling! And everybody backstage just made it better. Mom, Natalie Sibille, Ashley Brown, and Hannah Stewart all made me feel really, really good when I came off the stage! It was a really wonderful experience!

My other favorite part of the show is the "Doctor Skit". I was talking about that one is one of my other posts. But the audience last night was laughing SO SO SO loudly during that skit. It was crazy! I had such a hard time not laughing! I know I came really close to laughing a couple times. But tonight, that will not happen. Not even close. I'm just not going to let that happen. Nope, nope, nope! I'm determined!

Well, that's all for now! I hope tonight's performance is just as wonderful as last night...well better cause I don't wanna even almost laugh during the Doctor Skit!

I was tagged

Jennifer tagged me to put 10 things about myself:

(First the rules)

Honest Scrap Award Rules: When accepting this auspicious award, you must write a post bragging about it, including the name of the misguided soul who thinks you deserve such acclaim, and link back to said person so everyone knows he or she is real. Choose a minimum of 7 blogs that you find brilliant in content or design. Or improvise by including bloggers who have no idea who you are because you don’t have 7 friends. Show the 7 random victims’ names and links and leave a harassing comment informing them that they were prized with “Honest Weblog.” Well, there’s no prize, but they can keep the nifty icon. List at least ten honest things about yourself. Then, pass it on!

So...10 things about Gracie:

1. I HATE bananas and blueberries. They are really the only 2 "normal" foods that I completely refuse to eat under any circumstances. (Obviously I wouldn't eat raw octopus or something weird food...)

2. I'm a really light sleeper. Anything wakes me up. So, don't ever try to slumber me. It won't work.

3. Raw chicken really grosses me out and Mom is determined to teach me how to touch it....

4. I can't hold a grudge against anybody, no matter how hard I try, I always forgive people...after about 2 minutes, I'm over it.

5. I have 8 neices and nephews.

6. I would MUCH rather wear a dress or skirt than pants or shorts.

7. I plan to live in New York City one day.

8. I love being on stage! (I know that one is super obvious, but I really couldn't put 10 things about myself without including that...it was hurting me not to mention it...)

9. I recently started trying to figure out how to play the violin...I'm not sure how it's going, but Mom's impressed and violins have always fascinated me. So far I can't play "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" and "Ode To Joy".

10. I think I'm gonna be the shortest of all my siblings....Nathan is only about and inch shorter than me and Lydia's not too much shorter than that and she's only 10!

Okey dokey, so now I must tag some people:

http://ashleynicolebrown.blogspot.com/ is Ashley Brown.

http://rclairebear12.blogspot.com/ is Claire Stanford.

Okay, you two! You've been tagged!

Showcase 2009 Rehearsals

Showcase is being really fun this year! So far I'm in a few songs and a few skits and they're all very entertaining.

Last night we practiced only songs and dances. Only, none of the dancers were there, so we ended up only practicing songs. Me, Natalie, Natalie, Ashley Brown, Becca, Tessa, and Rachel are doing the opening song from Legally Blonde: The Musical. Me, Mikey, and Natalie are doing a song that we discoverated on the internet called "That Wicky Wacky Hula Hula Honka Wonka Honalulu Hawaiian Honey Of Mine". It's a pretty hilarious song. Then, I think I'm probly gonna sing a song from Thoroughly Modern Millie called "Gimme, Gimme", but I'm not sure about that one yet.

This morning I babysat Zoe. She was quite adorable, as usual. When I got there, she was absolutely naked...so I got her dressed...we had fun. She got a little tiny kitchen for Christmas and she was "baking" me food. I would pretend to eat it and then, when her back was turned, I'd stick it in my coat pocket. Then, I'd show her the empty plate and she was completely baffled! She knew the food was fake and it totally confusified her, cause she knew I couldn't really eat it. So, she would pull my mouth open and then, with a very confused expression say, "You eat all of it?" It was cracking me up...

Then, I came home and did school. Me and Mom finished reading "Romeo and Juliet". It was so good! I actually loved it! I can't wait to see the movie, because Mom said that now that we're done reading it, we can rent the movie! I always knew that it was a good story because it's such a classic. But, I would forget that I was even doing schoolwork when we were doing it. We would get so into the story and taking turns reading (we would play different people...I was always Juliet) that we would forget to answer the questions in the lesson and we'd have to answer a bunch. I don't think I've enjoyed a schoolbook as much as that one in a while!

This afternoon we had tutoring at the Hope on the Hill house. I helped Amber and Trevon with science study guides and division problems...well actually mostly helped Amber. Trevon was fine on his own. Then I helped Tavian and another guy, who's name I don't really know...I like working with Tavian the best. He's really funny and makes it easier to help him cause he's so entertaining, but we're both so talkative and easily distracted, that sometimes we don't get too much done. I had to help those two with multiplication tables. When "What's-his-name" couldn't figure out the answer (Tavian knew all of them), we would "make a beat" and "What's-his-name" would rap "Seven times nine equals sixty-three" etc. It was really fun...until we got hushed by the people in the next room because we were disrupting them. Then I taught the little drama class that I do for them over there. It was fun, as usual. But today all the kids were really, really hyper and full of energy, so it was hard to keep them focused and having creative ideas...

Tonight, we practiced the skits at showcase practice. I'm in some awesome skits. My favorite is the one where we're doing some sort of scene. I play a person playing a mom whose son is shot and dying and calls a doctor...you get the idea. Anyway, the first time we go through it, we are all completely emotionless and the director asks us to repeat it with a little more emotion. So, the second time we go through it really over-emotional. Then, she asks us to do it with less emotion, but a little bit faster. So we do it super fast. Then, she tells us to slow down, so we do it in slow motion. Then she just gets mad and quits...Everybody who was watching was laughing so much. I can't wait to do it again when more people are there!

Well, tomorrow, I don't have too much going on. We're doing school, of course, and then I've got rehearsal again. Rehearsal should be fun, though!

New Year!

Happy Happy New Year!

I had a wonderful New Years and New Years Eve! Natalie LaCombe and I went to Natalie Sibille's house on New Years Eve. Ashley Brown went too. We had lots of very scrumptious food. My favorites were the cheeseball that Natalie S. made, the mexican cornbread that Natalie S. made, and the cookie bars that Mrs. Tara (Natalie Sibille's momsie) made! We practiced one of our songs for showcase that me, Ashley, and the Natalies are gonna be in. We even practiced it in our costumes! Then we went outside in our costums and popped some fireworks. We were freezing! But we didn't exactly care...There were some really pretty ones! One of them didn't go up in the air and it popped right there in the yard and it was very huge, but thankfully nobody was harmed. And now that we know that everybody was safe, I can say that it actually looked really cool for that gigantic firework to pop right in their yard!

Ashley couldn't spend the night and she had to leave before we were ready for her to! We stayed up very late...well me, Natalie Sibille, and Mikey did. Natalie LaCombe went to bed early...as usual. But, me and Natalie S. did each other's makeup and then she curled my hair. We expected it to come out looking very funny, but it ended up looking very cute! It looked like a hairstyle from the 40's. So, we put on sunglasses and scarves (mine was around my neck and Natalie had hers around her head like a bonnet thing). We looked like old Hollywood movie stars! Then we pulled out some old clothes that were from Natalie's grandmother and they were SO cute! We put them on and made a bunch of really cute 40's style outfits and then got Mikey to take pictures of us. The pictures came out very cute, hopefully I can post some of them soon, but right now they're all on Natalie's camera, so I shall have to get them later.

Then yesterday we slept really late. When we woke up it was lunch time and Mrs. Tara had, of course, fixed cabbage (in the form of coleslaw) and black eyed peas along with some other very delicious food! Then I invited Natalie S. to spend the night at my house. And (hooray!) she could come, so we got all our stuff together and left to come back to my house. We had a very wonderful time. We watched a recording of the Broadway show "Thoroughly Modern Millie". It was a very good show....very entertaining. During the show, we got a phone call....It was a girl named Kristen....calling for Nathan. Hee hee hee.... He wasn't home. He was spending the night at Pete and Joey's house (our cousins). But, apparently this girl lives across the street from one of Nathan's friends and seems to be interested in Nathan and gave him her number...Next time she calls, I'm tempted to say "Sorry, he's not here. He's at the movies with Sarah..." Mom doesn't quite know what to do about this situation yet...

Today, Natalie slept really late, so I took a shower while she was sleeping. Then when she FINALLY woke up we ate lunch and then we went to Wal-Mart to get some t-shirts. We're making shirts that say a cute little phrase on it. Then Natalie had to leave. So, now me, Mom, Dad, and Lydia are just having a quiet uneventful evening at home. Of course...usually when it seems quiet and uneventful, something usually comes along and changes that...ha ha. Well that's all for now!