Mikey likes both Doctor Strange and Nightwing, wants to go into the hotel business and really likes watermelon and foods with cheese.
What I like about myself is that I’m independent. I’m not into “who’s my hero in what categories” and stuff like that. My only hero is pretty much my moms. They’re awesome. I don’t know how to explain them. They’re just great. I love hanging out with them. We love to watch movies on the weekends. We go up to our cabin. It’s nice and cold there; down here it’s really hot. We like to go up there a lot. One of my moms works at Universal Studios, the other one is a writer and therapist. Sometimes they’ll be in their jobs too much and I don’t get to see them, which is the sad part, but usually Michelle does her work here at home, so I get to hang out with her when she’s done with either her client or when she’s done writing.
Sometimes I have these moments where I want to have a brother to play with, but a brother’s like a chance thing. It could be a mean older brother, it could be an annoying younger brother, or we could be twins and like to hang out together. I had foster brothers and sisters, but the were only babies. Actually, a lot of people at my school were usually only children.
Cat Fever
My great little orange cat is sitting right next to me. His name is Momo and he’s a normal cat: sleeps, eats, goes to bed, sleeps, eats, goes to bed. But what’s great about my cat is he’s not like any ordinary cat where he just scratches on the furniture. There’s something weird about him-he doesn’t like to be pet in the stomach sometimes, only when he’s not in a playful mood, which is usually never. He likes to snuggle with me at night. When I call him, he always comes. He lets me pick him up-he’s not one of those cats that never lets you pick them up. When I carry him up to my room he starts to purr.
Momo
When I was born there was already a cat. His name was Morris but we nicknamed him Momo just for short. When I was four years old, sadly, he ran away, and he didn’t come back. But I got this new cat when I was four years old, and he’s now 6. He’s actually better than the last one. We still call him Momo-we don’t have a real name for him, and I’m planning on naming my next cat Momo. Momo the first, Momo the second, Momo the third, etcetera.
I’ve never changed schools, except preschool to kindergarten. It was good to have another child like me in my school, two actually. Their names are Gabriel and Katie. We had lots in common. One of them had two moms, one of them had two dads. I’ve heard about one more, but we’re not friends. It was usually in second grade and third grade-those two grades it was all confusing to them. But everyone just started to understand it a little more.
Rock Star
I’m about to go into band and start playing the drums. I was just kind of interested in band and I wanted to learn a third instrument. I just thought it would be pretty cool to play three instruments at once. I don’t really like those blowing instruments. I’ve tried playing the flute, and I really didn’t like it, so that’s why I was more interested in the drums, piano and bass.
STEM Spells
My two greatest subjects are math and science. I’m not so great at social studies and language arts. I think science is neat and that I was just born to do math. The things that get me onto science is because I’m more interested in it than other subjects. I like stuff like learning about minerals and rocks. I have a whole collection, and one little fossil.My favorite’s the fossil-it’s some sort of fish discovered in Russia about 110 years ago, that’s all I know-but I have mineral rocks and decorations. I have one little mineral decoration as a tree. It has amethyst as its base, and a brown root and trunk, and leaves that are jade. It’s a neat combination of colors. My favorite mineral is ruby. I don’t have that one; it’s too expensive to get.
The tradition of Comic-Con is we either drive or get on a train, and we go to San Diego. We get a hotel; sometimes if we’re lucky enough we can get one near Comic-Con. There’s a costume tradition-I wear a different costume every day, sometimes two. We sometimes wait in lines for hours. We get like $300 worth of Legos. We go inside, we do some booths, some free samples of things. There’s always these neat things every year: the Pokemon section, the Marvel section-my favorite. You could go to their booth, they sometimes have a video game they’re trying out. One of my favorite parts about Comic-Con is if you go to the back, there’s like this little thing where last year they had a Simpsons booth, you could win Simpsons giant donuts and stuff like that. There’s sometimes different food, like a Batman cupcake or a Spider-Man ice cream cone. They had a zipline for the new Gotham show, sometimes they have archery for the new season of Arrow, they have tryouts for new TV shows, not tryouts for actors, but tryouts for different games and events.
Travel and Chess
I went to a sleepaway camp in Pennsylvania. It was really fun, we had a lot of activities. We went on some field trips like white water rafting, and paintballing, and all that, and surprisingly that was my first time going paintballing. I got hurt, a little below my knee. I didn’t expect it to hurt that much. I also made it a few friends at camp. I’ve gone to Paris, I’ve gone to London, I’ve gone to Hungary. Statewise I’ve been to New York, I’ve been to Hawaii but I don’t remember that, Pennsylvania, Florida and Nevada. I actually like traveling but I don’t like getting on the plane. It just feels uncomfortable, like you have to rush through the airport and then you have to get on and all that sort of shenanigans.
I went to London before Pennsylvania, and it was really fun. The only thing I didn’t like about it was the food. The thing that I liked about London was all the neat castles, and the London Tower was probably my favorite part. Hungary, my mom was on a work project for NBC and we decided to go with her. Again, same, terrible food. But surprisingly London had better food than Hungary. I really liked the castles in Hungary. I really like places with castles and I bought a triple chess game there that I would really like to try out sometime.
Chess Moves
It’s been two years, and I’ve never found three people who can play chess. Only one of my friends and my uncle can play chess. And I always have them over at the same time, but my uncle’s always helping my mom and my friend just wants to play the XBox. I started chess club in second grade. I was in chess class, but originally I learned how to play chess from my uncle when I went over to his house. I was so interested that I asked my mom, is there another way to play chess with other people, and she was like, oh, there’s a chess club for people at school. I’m not going to be a chess master, chess is just like a hobby. In chess club I’m one of those people who can’t beat my own level but I can beat anyone below me. The highest I’ve gotten is Level 4 on the iPhone, but I can’t beat the chess computer at Level 5.
Mikey lives with his parents Michelle and Chris and of course, his cat, Momo.