In preparation for the party we headed over to Salvation Army earlier this week to look for some happening clothes (such as Monica's whole outfit, and my pants)! While we were there we found some little chairs, and Brooke loves to sit on the little chairs at church so we picked them up for her! She loves them and loves to carry them around and climb up on them. She technically doesn't need to climb to get up, but she doesn't know another way to get on.
Also, since she is a walking fiend (and for all of you wondering, yes, she's started getting to running the past few days) I thought it was probably time to teach her to kick a ball. I set the ball on the ground and asked her to kick it. She didn't know what that meant, so I told her to hit the ball with her foot, and this was the result... At least her comprehension is very good!
Sometime this past week I also asked her to give blankie a hug, and this was the result. I've been trying to teach her that to hug is to put your arms around things, but for her it's still just things wrapping around her... We'll get there.
On Friday night Brooke went running into her room while the lights were out and started playing with her elephant. It was a pretty good game for the dark since it is supposed to shine stars on the walls and ceilings. Brooke did try to grab a star a few times, but mostly she sat and held the elephant and pushed the buttons. For a while I set it to cycle through the colors and quizzed her. We haven't worked on colors very much, but it's a start.
On Friday night we headed over to another house in the ward for the murder mystery party. As I mentioned it was 80's high school reunion themed. It was a great party, and I'm sure a lot of time when into getting everything ready. They even were able to dig up all of our graduation pictures from '87! I'm Bart, and Monica was Pamela.
They even had a balloon arch for pictures!
I've never done a murder mystery before, so it was fun to give one a try. I think it would be fun to do it again! The night was packed with great times, from catching up with classmates, murder and accusation, to old grudges, and dance offs! I didn't guess the murderer right, but Monica did win best costume!
Here's a picture I managed to snag of Brooke trying to get into her chair!
On Saturday morning we headed up to the zoo! It was a blast, and I hope we go more this summer. It's also nice having a membership because then you don't feel like you have to stay all day, just stroll around for a couple hours and head back home.
While we were there we of course had to see the tigers. The tiger kept running back and forth in front of the glass, just inches away from Brooke. Unfortunately tigers are very fast, so I didn't manage to get it in the picture.
Brooke also enjoyed spending some of the day walking between exhibits!
And here we are checking out the clouded leopard. It was eating a coconut! And a volunteer that was there said they feed it cabbage too! Who even knew?
While we were there we were able to catch the seal show, but I didn't get any pictures. We spent a good deal of time at the cat house since Brooke loves them so much! And here we all are at the snow leopard!
We never did find the lions, and there were hyenas in their enclosure (we need you back Simba!!), but they at least had this life size lego lion out there! So nice of him to stay put.
I tested my jumping skills, on my next jump I was just shy of 9 feet, so I did do a little better. The take away message is that I need to do some jumping exercises so that I can crush this when we come back next time! Only jump as far as a polar bear, embarrassing!
We saw the grizzly bears, and they were pretty active when we came by, so that was fun. That's the other benefit to coming in the morning, that's when most of the animals actually do anything! While we were there Brooke decided to check and see if her hands were bear sized yet.
And on our way out we took a picture all together with the metal giraffe!
They also had this cut out picture there too! How could we not stick Brooke in there! The zoo was so much fun! I hadn't been here in quite some time, and I hope we'll be able to make it out several times this summer.
Brooke has been attending nursery for the past few weeks. So far everything has gone fine. I have stayed in there with her through second hour, and then leave her there for 3rd. Today she almost made it all the way through church. Monica said they brought her in with just 10 minutes to go! We're getting so close. However, one thing that's become pretty clear in nursery is that Brooke is introverted. Here's a picture I grabbed during singing time. All she wanted to do was sit on her chair.
Well, it's been a great week out here. I hope everyone else has had a great week as well! Until next time, thanks for stopping by!
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