First up is diapers! Now please don’t judge because I am about to blow your mind. When I was a baby, I was born almost 3 months early. Most babies are about 7 pounds when born, but I was very small (therefore given the nickname “Peanut”) and weighed 2 lbs 15 oz. These are some photos of baby Grace:

I think you’ll be surprised to see that compared to my hand, the diapers I first used were tiny, though surprisingly large on me!

I know that that was kind of an odd topic but I think it is kind of funny how small I was!

Now let’s switch topics to one of my favorite podcasts of all time! Gen-Z Media produces a great podcast called Six Minutes! Shahadi Wright Joseph stars as a 12-year-old girl named Holiday, found in the icy waters of Juneau, Alaska. Unfortunately, she has no memory of her past. It starts out as a kid’s and family podcast and slowly shifts into more of a sci-fi genre, but that doesn’t at all mean that it isn’t a great podcast for the family, or even to follow on your own. Just make sure you start with Season One. Click here to check out the podcast! I give it a total 10/10!

Before we get into the mysterious door I wanted to tell you about, we have to celebrate two very important things…

Happy birthday to my friend India! Her birthday was two days ago but I can’t let this go unnoticed. She is a great friend and I always enjoy hanging out with her. We love riding bikes together and quarantine would feel a lot longer without her!

The next celebration is for my Aunt! My dad’s oldest sister Julie, had a birthday yesterday! Auntie Julie is fun, smart, and kind. She runs a tutoring center in California for kids.

I know for a fact that Doc loves Auntie Julie and although he is still working on pronouncing her name, he didn’t want to give up a chance to say something to her!

Now for the door… It isn’t as spooky as most of you are wondering

It is just the back of the door leading to my room. But it isn’t just any boring back of the door. It is my cartoon door! (I’m still working on a name.) In each of the square sections, I have a large spread of characters from a favorite show or video game that I traced. Starting with…

Now for the moment you’ve been waiting for!

Actor Of The Week… Drumroll pleeeeeease…

Millie Bobby Brown!

She is an amazing actress who played a character named Eleven in a show called Stranger Things. She also played the character Enola Holmes in a movie called Enola Holmes. Some other shows she is in include: multiple Godzilla movies, Modern Family, and more! Check out the rest here.

And you can check out the trailer for Stranger Things (one of my all-time favorites) here:

I hope you liked today’s post!

-Grace

So yeah, September might be the month were school starts and Labor day happens. But it isn’t like Christmas when most kids are counting down the days until they can open gifts or even on Easter when they can stuff their faces full of candy! With that said, I, with the help of Doc, have something very important to tell you.

Doc is really annoyed that I didn’t post about him last time so I made sure to get plenty of videos of him that are to his satisfaction. Lately he has been thinking about Halloween and boy is he excited! The costumes at the top of the list are:

1. Sea Witch (From Jake and the Neverland Pirates)

2) A Ghost

3) The classic Pumpkin

Did I mention that Doc is terrified of ghosts? I have 1,000,000,000 videos with Doc asking me to say boo and when I do he screams and scrambles to crawl away.

In other news, a little over 6 years ago, I officially became obsessed with American Girl Dolls. I took an old box that my mom had and made it into a laptop that I edited to conveniently be on the American Girl Doll website.

The options for the dolls were slim but it entertained me for hours so no complaining here!

Now who is ready for the one, the only, Actor Of The Week!

Drumroll pleeeease!!!!!!!!

Nick Offerman!

He has been in everything from The Lego Movie, to Devs, with a LOT in between.

If you are wondering about some of the things in between, here are a few:

my personal favorite, Parks and Recreation, Making it, The Founder, Hearts Beat Loud, Sing, and ten cabillion more. If you were wondering, click here for the others!

He is a hysterical, awesome, great actor. My favorite show that he he was in is Parks and Recreation where he plays the role of Ron Swanson, the meat-loving, woodworking, riddle-solving boss to the lead character, Leslie Knope, played by Amy Poehler. Now please enjoy the Ron Swanson inspired, Nick Offerman Bacon Slam Poem!

I hope you enjoyed this post!

-Grace

P.S. Look at this awesome video that my Grandpa sent! It is a machine that paints murals. It is insane!

Hey again! Long time no write! A while ago, Poppy shared the photos that he took at Manzanita and I FINALLY remembered to write about them. My grandpa is an amazing photographer and after you see these photos, you will agree. I asked him about his time in Africa, where he traveled part of every year from 1965 to 1976.

When I told him I was writing about him he was flattered and is now concerned that the paparazzi are going to show up at his door.

This is exactly what he said when I told him about this post: “Can’t imagine what you are going to say about me… hmmm… don’t mention the Good Looks or Athletic Body… otherwise all sorts of women will stalk me…mistaking me for George Clooney.”

Now that I write this, I might need to warn him about the fact that I mentioned the Good Looks and Athletic Body….

I’m Back! Now that I warned him I can show you his amazing pictures that he took in Africa and the ones from Manzanita. I have a bunch of photos so I will go to my trusty assistant, The Random Number Generator! Get ready….

67! I don’t have that many photos. Let’s try again….

-7! I should really check the settings on this thing….

9! Great! Here are 9 photos that he took!

And my personal favorite….

Are you ready to feast your eyes on 3 of the best pictures ever taken in Manzanita? Here we go!

Aren’t they gorgeous!?

He also has been sending some amazing videos!!! I think they are a riot and I watch them over and over again! Be warned. The following may occur: dying of amazement and hiccups.

Now for the one of the funniest movies ever!! A GREAT movie called Spy. Melissa McCarthy stars in this funny, action, slightly inappropriate (I hope you don’t mind the F-word) family movie. For all of the geniuses who are now furiously tapping away on their devices, let me make life just a little bit easier. Get ready for the trailer:

I hope you like it!

In other news, 206 years and 1 day ago (in 1814), Francis Scott Key wrote “The Star Spangled Banner”! Did you know that the “Star Spangled Banner” was originally titled “The Defence of Fort M’Henry”? Can you imagine someone announcing: And now, *Insert Famous SInger Here* with the “The Defence of Fort M’Henry“!

Also I want to do this thing called Actor Of The Week where I name an actor that was in a show, movie, or even musical. It is my way of recognizing great films and obsessing over one of the actors that was in it. So for the first ever Actor Of The Week… Drumroll Please!!!!!

Kristen Bell! She starred in Deadwood as Flora Anderson, Elle Bishop in Heroes, Gossip Girl in Gossip Girl, Anna in Frozen, and my personal favorite role and one of my favorite TV shows, Veronica Mars in Veronica Mars!

She even voices the sloth Priscilla Tripletoe in Zootopia!

Can’t you see the resemblance!? Just Kidding! But Kristen Bell is known to have a love of sloths!

I hope you like Actor Of The Week!

Drop the Mike!

-Grace

Forget the influence of Peppa pig! (If you don’t remember that particular post very well, feel free quickly catch up here: https://blahblahblog.topliff.com/page/2/. Due to the way I publish the posts, you have to scroll down a bit to get to the Influence of Peppa Pig.

Anyway, Doc got a Jake and The Neverland Pirates treasure box filled with a sword, treasure geh-shure map, compass, bandana, and spyglass. He loves them so much and takes them everywhere he goes. When he gets tired of playing with his spyglass, he usually attempts to have a sword fight with you. You can usually tell that he wants to have a sword fight when he screams “En Garde” at the top of his lungs. (But it usually comes out as “AW-gard.” He says it super fast and in one word. I want to show you the pictures of Captain Doc in all his Pirate Glory!

Also, 10 years and 1 day ago I started my first day at Bright Beginnings Montessori. It was one of those Instagram things were it tells you how many years ago on that day, but my Mom showed the photos to me late last night right before the power went out so I didn’t get to blog about them until today. (More on the power outage later.)

Now for the power outage subject. Last night at about 7:00 or so the wind (which was already super crazy and knocking pine cones into our backyard) got even windier and a bunch of tree branches fell near our house. The power was out until about 8:45 this morning. You can tell we are a very responsible family because at 9:30 pm, when we got out generator up and running, we used its precious time and power to watch an episode of TV and charge our phones. Yep, super responsible. Also we found out a really cool way to make a lantern. All you need is a milk jug, water, duct tape, and a working flashlight.

What you do is fill the milk jug with water and place the flashlight over the opening. Then you duct tape the flashlight to the jug so that the light part shines into the water. And there you have it, a heavy but pretty good DIY lantern! (Just make sure you have replacement batteries near by just in case…)

Lastly, school starts for me tomorrow and I just want to say that if there is a lack of posts I am really sorry. I will do my best to keep up, but chances are that I will fall a bit behind. You will most likely get a post once a week. Happy start of school! (Though for most of you it already started.)

-Grace

P.S. Make sure to check out this link! It is 30 of the worlds most funniest tombstones! World’s Best Tombstones! Enjoy!

First up is a recent story about Doc. When Doc goes to the bathroom, he gets three jelly beans or “GEH-wy-beeeens”. Last night he got his usual three. I think coconut jelly beans are disgusting but Doc loves them because Cubby, a character in his favorite show, likes is obsessed with coconuts. He also likes lemon and cherry.

So anyway, Mom puts Doc to bed and the next day, she goes into Doc’s room and sees that his hand is kind of red. So Mom asks him to open his hand and when he does, she sees a squashed red jelly bean in his hand. Correction-she sees all of the jellybeans from the night before in his hand. And guess what!? They squashed together into a red mess. Doc usually saves his jelly beans until the last minute to eat but now we know to pay a little more attention so that we don’t have to wash his sheets twice to get the red jelly bean stain out!

Now for a story that is a little less than recent…

Dad had a camera that he hasn’t used in a long time and he let Hazel borrow it for a while. Hazel was looking through all of the photos she found a bunch of me from when I was little! I hope you enjoy the pictures!

I hope you liked the stories and photos!

See ya Write to ya next time!

-Grace

Hey again! After realizing that there was so much that I didn’t put into the first vacation post, I thought it would be a good idea to write multiple parts to one adventure because we did so much stuff! I will try not to go overboard and make too many parts. Enjoy!

Weeks later…

VACATION Pt. 62

Haha, just kidding!

While we were on vacation Millie had the time of her life back in Portland with her BFF, Bindi. These are some photos:

The beach was so fun and it was really great to get away from all of the chaos and buzz in Portland. Now we are back and although Millie isn’t having as much fun here, because as you can see in the pictures above, Millie and Bindi played, napped, and peed together. Talk about best friends!

Now something about me must look a bit different, I got braces! If it were possible for my mouth to grow a hand and slap my teeth, it would feel pretty similar to what it feels like right now…

Though my grandparents went back home to Napa, my uncle is still here and we have had great fun with our outdoor movie night! Last night we had pizza and the whole family got the impression that Doc really enjoyed it. Well, more or less…

See ya next time!

-Grace