Last Sunday was a super blood wolf moon, in case you missed it. It was the only total lunar eclipse of the year, and was visible to basically the whole western hemisphere. Fortunately for us, totality started at 9:42, with the moon centered in the Earth's shadow at 10:12. I knew the moon looked red sometimes, but I didn't realize it was during a lunar eclipse, so I"m glad I didn't miss it! This was taken with my phone camera, so it's a pretty good picture for what we were working with!
On Monday Winry managed to get the cap off of a marker, and Monica didn't notice in spite of Winry using her as a canvas! Good thing this all happened before I went to work or the whole house would have been blue when I got home!
However, good thing I had work so I didn't get in the middle of this food fight! This was Brooke's first time having an avocado mask, and she had a lot of fun!
This past week we went out to finish cleaning up Christmas lights (cause Christmas just ended, right?), and Brooke started hopping down the stairs! This might not seem like a big deal, but this is possibly the most adventuresome thing Brooke's ever done in her life all on her own!
Also, Winry loves to climb up the stairs! So the gate is a new staple at our house (you'll see why in a few pictures). Anyway, at bed time we sent everyone up the stairs, and Brooke got about half way up and then stopped because she was scared Jelly would jump out at her at the top, so we sent Winry up first!
Also, Winry has started to say uh-oh! That's the whole story...
Brooke was really good this past week when everyone went shopping, so she got to pick something from the dollar section at Target, and she got a paint your own hedgehog puzzle! This was just the first coat of paint, the second was a full coat, with plenty of color mixing.
King Soopers by our house has a horse you can ride at the front of the store, and supplies pennies to get it running. Brooke rode it while it was on for the first time! Finally, gentle rocking isn't too much to happen! See, jumping off a stair really is a big deal!
Also, here are the gate crashers!
Friday night for date night Monica and I went ice skating! First time in many years, but it was a lot of fun and nice to find out I haven't lost all ability to grace the ice.
And after, we went to a place called Milk It to get rolled ice cream. It's not really that different than any other build your own ice cream place, but it is a more fun presentation!
Saturday was such a day! In the morning I woke up and ran 10 miles, and then stretched out with Brooke. Then everyone got ready to go to the museum. Brooke was having a snack, and Winry swooped in, so Brooke had to eat them over her head!
We headed out for the museum and everyone had a great time there! We got a family pass for Christmas, and we're definitely going to have to use that a lot!! It's been a long time since I've been to a museum and it was fun to get to see a lot of cool things. Also, I feel like museums have changed a lot since I last went and things were much more interactive. The first thing we did was go to an interactive children's play area where Brooke dug up some dino bones!!
We ate lunch there and tried to let Winry down to explore as much as possible. While Winry was down crawling around she'd start meowing... so now we're not sure if she thinks she's a cat... There could be worse things! We stayed as late as we could, but eventually Winry needed a nap so it was time to head home. We figured Winry would sleep in the car, but at first she was just grumpy!! She did eventually sleep, and woke right as we were getting home, so not a terribly long nap.
After we got everything situated, we headed to Costco for samples. Yes, just for samples. I wish I had taken a picture of all of Brooke's samples sitting in front of her cooling! She had like... 6 waiting. There were a lot of samples, and they were all good. Anyway, on the way home we stopped at King Soopers to get a few things we needed, so Monica just ran in to get everything and forgot her wallet! So then we all came in to join her at the check out!
While Monica was making dinner I took the kids to the park and enjoyed sliding. Winry got real cold because she doesn't believe in having her hands covered, but we made it home just as dinner finished up!
After dinner Winry found Jelly and wanted to play!.. but Jelly didn't...
Everyone was very tired and the kids went right to bed. Monica and I then proceeded to be exhausted and go comatose on the couch. Even Jelly was tired from all our adventuring!
and, well, we're still on the couch... The end.
OK, not really, but that's all I've got for this week! Have a wonderful week ahead.
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