PI Day!!

As you hopefully all know, this past week was PI day!  We of course celebrated, and Brooke joined in too, but more on that in a moment.

Brooke fell asleep while out on a walk with Monica this past week!  What a tired little girl.  She hasn't fallen asleep in her stroller in a looooong time!  So maybe this a good sign and she'll start falling asleep when she's tired and we're not home.

Brooke loves to look in mirrors.  She found Monica's little makeup mirror and loves to hold it up over her head and look at herself.  She would also use it to look over at me.  Whenever she sees herself in the mirror she always points and exclaims "baby!"

Now that we have those minor events out of the way we can get back to pi day.  Monica usually makes little pies in a muffin tin.  This makes it a lot easier to share pie with Brooke.  I guess it also helps ensure we don't eat too much too... which is unfortunate.  We had key lime again this year!  Pi day also fell on mutual, so I went to the store and grabbed a pie to take for the boys to eat.  They really enjoyed that!

Monica took Brooke to the park while I was at work one day.  Typically Brooke just sits in the swings, but she can stay there for up to an hour and be happy!  Well, this time she got to try out the wood chips as well.  It looks like she's having a blast, but she got them everywhere and was very dirty when I got home!  Luckily it was already bath night anyway.

Brooke really enjoys reading books.  Most of the time that she's not reaching up to us and complaining she's sitting on the floor looking through a book.  It's great!  Especially when she'll do it on her own.

Brooke also managed to get to a box of plastic forks and a pack of plates.  When I came home from work they were scattered all over the kitchen!  A little later she grabbed a box that was near by and started putting all the forks away!  What a great helper!  Once she got all of the ones in arms reach in the box, she reached in with both hands, grabbed them all again, and threw them back out!  That's ok, cause she'll just put them back away again, right?  Not this time...

So... I'm not sure what it is with Brooke and sitting in boxes.  Maybe it's just a baby thing in general, I don't know.  This is a much smaller box than she usually sits in.  For perspective, a pair of shoes came in this box, so it's basically shoe box size.  She pulled over blankie and her water bottle and started trying to climb in.  I helped her a little, and then she sat in there and enjoyed herself.

When we pay tithing at church I like to give the envelope to Brooke to hand to a member of the bishopric.  Brooke enjoys holding just about anything, and I think they like getting it from her more than from me.  Well, that backfired a little this week.  Right after I handed the envelope to Brooke she looked at it and then suddenly sneezed!  We just had a change in our bishopric a week ago so we took it to the new guy as initiation!!

On Sunday night Monica and I attempted to make sushi after Brooke went to bed.  I know this is a little weird, an activity without Brooke... but I think we'll be OK.  First we had to assemble everything together.

Next was rolling it, then mastery, then this!  It's a little hard to take pictures AND make sushi, especially since I kept getting rice stuck to my hands.

And here we are with our dinner.  Lesson from our first attempt: Either the ingredients need to be cut smaller, we should have used less rice, or we needed to push everything harder when we rolled it up.  It tasted great, but everything was very large!

And of course you can't have sushi without dessert, and what would we be having for dessert?  Well, for Monica it was frosted lemonade, made one bite at a time!

I finished up most of the card art for my new Egypt themed card game.  I just have one or two more cards to go.  Then I'll just need a name and I think I'll be ready to order a prototype of the cards!  Hopefully I'll be able to finish that up this next week and I'll have more to report next week.

Well, I think that's all I've got for now.  Have a wonderful week!