I don't remember if I put this in last week, and even if I did it's great enough to go in twice! Brooke loves to help with the dishes! She puts away the silver ware while I unload the rest of everything.
This week our house finally finished getting painted!! It was supposed to get painted two weeks ago, but there was just storm after storm. We eventually got a few days without rain (though not all in a row) and the painters did a fantastic job! To celebrate we even put up new lights by the garage!
Um... I don't know if this has back story... except maybe Monica now owns a hat.
So Brooke loves to spit out her "toothpaste" with me after I finish brushing my teeth. She loves it so much that when I turn on my tooth brush she'll immediately climb up the stairs to come find me. I decided I'd get another tooth brush for her and she could brush her teeth in the morning with me. She loves to come up, brush her teeth with me, and then we rinse our brushes and spit in the sink!
On Friday morning we swung over to the zoo real quick with Monica's friend Katie. We got there just as they were feeding the polar bear. Wouldn't you know it they eat ice!! Well... there was probably something frozen in it, but we never got to see what.
Like many zoos there are peacocks roaming around at the Denver zoo. I took a picture of one perched up on a fence because you could see it's tail feathers and I thought it'd probably be the best shot I could get, and then we walked around a corner and saw this! Thank you for participating Mr. Peacock!
Brooke liked to watch the river otters swim around, but I could never quite get a picture of her with a river otter in it... Just a bunch of bubble trails.
Also, I saw this turtle. Its back is all covered in moss and algae and who knows what else! When I sat there looking at it it just felt like the oldest thing I had ever seen! Also, after looking I wondered how long a turtle can hold it's breath. 30 minutes... oh wait, except for the ones that only come up for air every few months!!! That was even more fun to type than I expected, maybe I'll have to start doing turtle facts in each blog post! ;)
If Brooke covets, Brooke covets watches. She always tries to pull them off our wrists and press the buttons and play with them. Well, this week she got her dream. Monica didn't want to wear her watch, so we put it on Brooke. She was ecstatic!
We got Brooke a life vest this weekend. We were planning to go swimming today, but that didn't quite make it into the final plans. Every time she sees it she asks to put it on. She just loves to wear it.
Since the outside of the house now looks so nice Monica decided that I had to replace our ceiling fan. It was very dirty, and hung lower than I wanted, so for date night on Saturday Monica watched me replace it.
The new fan looks so much better! I had a couple... or maybe a few... ok really I had several mess ups in the process, so it took a lot longer than it should have, but at least it's done now and I'm not 10 feet up on a ladder.
Brooke still loves to go check the mail with me. We went Sunday morning (we didn't go Saturday) because Monica was sleeping in and I was going crazy reading the same books. When we got home it was kitty's turn to take a ride and Brooke tried to push her around the house. I couldn't get her to use the handles, so she never had much luck turning. But they did make it back to the front door.
Sunday afternoon found us playing a little SNES when Brooke woke from her nap, and she just had to have a turn. She's a natural at it, and took it to the wire against Monica!
Being a champ makes you thirsty!
Today Brooke and I headed out into the back yard to throw around some balls. Brooke has really been wanting to go out into the back yard all the time lately, which is great! I'm just glad we were able to find some time while the weather was still cool.
As alluded to at the start of the post, we went hiking today. We went to Castlewood Canyon, which is just about 25 minutes south of us. While I was getting things ready I left the tube to the camelbak hanging off the table and Brooke found it! It was fun watching her walk over and get drinks until she decided she should just squeeze it and left a huge puddle on the ground for me to clean up...
We had a heck of a time trying to get into the park to go hiking today. There are two roads that lead in, one that has a bunch of short trails going to interesting places, such as a cave, and some old ruins. The other road comes to the visitor center and the start of some longer trails (longer meaning about a mile out). We had hoped to go see the cave and ruins, etc. but when we got up to the self service day pass purchase place we couldn't get our money to go in the shoot! We barely had enough money with us, but most of it was in coins, and the deposit box had a very small hole and an immediate bend. So we couldn't pay there, and had to drive around to the other entrance. That led us into a line of at least 20 cars waiting to get by the visitors center. Well, we finally got in, but it took a lot longer than we had hoped.
We borrowed a hiking baby backpack thing from a friend in the ward. It worked great! It was very easy to carry Brooke around and she had a lot of fun. It's a good thing it was easy too, because we were hiking from the longer trail side of things. Here we are at a dam that I guess broke some time? I don't really know the history, but it was cool to see the old ruins. This was about in the middle of the park as a whole, and was a little over a mile hike for us to get to. In total we hiked about 2.5 miles.
One of the trails we took was through a little canyon, and crossed several bridges. Here is Monica admiring nature from afar!
As we were getting close to the car Brooke started to cry because she was so tired, so we tried to pick up the pace. Pace pick up was going great until we got here! There was a quite long stair case in the way of the parking lot! Who put that thing there!?
We got home and everyone was so tired they fell right asleep... well, except me. I ran 5 miles. Brooke slept until 4! So that put a damper on us going swimming this afternoon, so I guess we'll have to go sometime in the next few weeks to make up for it.
I hope everyone had a great week! Remember, stay cool!
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