The Schuyler Sisters

This house hears a wide range of music from Anthrax to Taylor Swift. The unspoken rule has always been that the cook gets to listen to their music without complaints from the rest of the house. So when JT started listening to Hamilton last year we didn't question it. When we all tired of the girls reenacting Shrek the Musical after seeing it at Zilker Hillside Theater, JT tried to convince them to listen to Hamilton. By the fall we were all hooked especially the girls. With a brief two week break to obsess over Moana, Hamilton has remained one of their favorite past times.

• Elizabeth has broken the spine on JT's copy of Ron Chernow's biography while obsessing over the images of Eliza and Hamilton.
• The girls refer to JT as Hamilton and Zach as Aaron Burr
• The girls launch out in song anytime they hear New York ("In New York you can be a new man")
• They draw countless pictures of the main characters and even made paper puppets that they took to school for Show and Tell.
• JT and Lulu have an entire routine reenacting the opening line of Yorktown ("Monsieur Hamilton, Monsieur Lafayette, In command where you belong)
• They forgo cartoons to watch the PBS Great Performances about Lin Manuel Miranda and the creation of Hamilton
• The girls will tell anyone that will listen that LMM helped write songs for  Moana and that Christopher Jackson sings a song
• The girls spend countless hours on the back deck acting out their favorite scenes

It is this last bit that led us to Goodwill yesterday because none of the dresses  in their closet were the right dress to play the roles of Eliza and Angelica (for the record I get to play Peggy). And believe me they have argued countless times the NONE part of that statement.

And the girls love watching this version of the Schuyler Sisters.

and everybody was kung-fu fighting

In my last post I lied. Zach did not qualify for the State competition, he qualified for the Regional competition. That was until Saturday when he journeyed to lovely Navasota, Texas with his Kickstart team for the Regional/State Qualifying Tournament.

Zach had originally qualified for individual competition but was asked to compete with a group team when a third member wasn't able to make the trip. Sadly I wasn't able to attend as JT had a baseball tournament that weekend. Rick arrived in time to see Zach's solo competition and a district photographer caught some shots of his group competition.

The team placed 2nd in their group and Zach placed 3rd for individual. He officially moves on to State Competition  in Sugarland on April 22.