Winry continues to grow and learn, and this past week that involved feeding herself with a spoon! In fairness, that picture is from AFTER she gave up and started using her hands. Also, Monica tried sometime last week, and Winry would stick the pointy end of the spoon in the bowl, and then put the spoon-y part in her mouth... so things weren't working out very well before. Look at that marked improvement!
At preschool this past week the lesson involved some rain talk. The kids got these rain drops that had various different activities on them. First, Brooke cut that out all on her own without anyone else's help! Good job! Second, She asked for the letters, but Brooke wrote that all out by herself! It says "dibble dibble dop!" (From Mr. Brown can moo, can you?)
This past week Monica had an ongoing Norwex Facebook party for one of her friends. She put in a lot of work, which didn't go unnoticed to Brooke who wanted to make some Norwex videos of her own! (3 in total) We need to get Brooke to do these videos more often, not so much to educate people about Norwex, but more so just think about how clean our house will be!!!
Winry continues to understand and talk more and more. She'll try to repeat a whole bunch of words, and I'm not really sure what her criteria is for whether or not she'll try to repeat you. She's started to respond to "how's it going?" Her answer is always good. I was thinking about it today, and she'll get to start going to nursery in 3 months, and it'll probably be pretty important to have basic communication before then. It looks like she'll be doing just fine, but I wonder if she'll be into sentences like Brooke was by the time we get there.
Winry also put her dish away after dinner a few times this past week. Now we just need to get her to start loading the dishwasher!
Brooke got out her animal masks this past week, and Winry really wanted to wear one! She didn't keep them on for very long though.
This past week was Brooke's last week for swim lessons. She had a great time, and on Thursday they all got a special treat! The teacher brought a huge duck shaped floaty! All of the kids got to take a turn riding around the pool on it! (If you listen closely, you can hear Winry crying. She doesn't much like being a swim class observer and not getting to swim herself!) Also, Brooke pooped in the pool.... gotta make that last lesson memorable.
On Friday we had our first hot dog roast of the year! The weather was good, though a little windy, but we were able to get the fire started without any problems. Winry mostly just wanted to eat the bun, and didn't seem like she liked her first time trying hot dogs very much, though she did eat a little of it.
And Brooke happily munched everything in her path!
After hot dogs we of course had s'mores, though we didn't have as many large marshmallows as we thought. Brooke and I both had a s'more with a large marshmallow. Winry didn't have one, and Monica had one made with mini marshmallows! NOTE: if you ever plan to do this, use twice as many marshmallows as you think you'll need! Those 4 did not come out as fulfilling as we had hoped.
Monica ended up getting sick over the weekend. Brooke had something about a week ago where she told us her stomach hurt all day long for like 2 or 3 days, and she didn't eat very much either. She also had a cough, but no runny nose or anything that would cause one. Anyway, after a few days she started feeling better and is doing great now, but Monica went through the same thing over the weekend, with Saturday being the worst of it. So Saturday morning I took the kids to the library, and when we got there the city was putting on an Arbor Day party right outside the library! We had no clue, but we stopped by to see how things were going.
The real reason we stopped by was because we saw flippin' flapjacks there!! The city always has them come to the 5k/10k races, and they make some amazing pancakes! It doesn't matter that we had all already eaten breakfast, and that snack time was literally right before we got in the car to come to the library. Some pancakes are worth eating any time, especially when they're free!
Brooke munched right through hers!
And I shared mine with Winry. We also got a few sausage links to share as well.
The library was great, we returned the old books and Brooke quickly picked some new ones, and then we played there for a little while before coming home for lunch. Then both the girls took naps. Winry ended up being first awake, and we played together. She eventually came over and climbed into my lap, and was very happy to be there! She's become quite a snuggler lately, and in the mornings when I get her out of her crib she'll bring her blanket and we'll sit in her chair and she lays her blanket on me and then snuggles in. We'll just sit there for a few minutes before she decides she's really ready for the day! I'll be sad when she grows out of it.
While Brooke was sleeping I was looking through dinner ideas and came up with some good ideas of things Brooke and I could make together. I told Monica I'd let her pick what we did for dinner, and was sure she'd want to make something and wouldn't even consider going out to eat. (But Monica was sure she'd want to go out somewhere) Well, Brooke woke up, I asked, and she immediately said "Let's go to Panera!" So my plan was foiled, and to Panera we went! Everyone got mac and cheese, and everyone was happy! Monica placed an order online and we picked it up on our way out to bring home for her!
When we got home it was bath time, and the kids had a blast! They went a little crazy, and I think this was the most wet I have ever been giving them a bath. The splashing was unreal!
Today at church Brooke's primary class acted out the good Samaritan. Brooke really loved it! We even got a picture from her teacher! I'm not sure what role she played, or if they actually played any roles. I'd ask her more about it, but she's taking a nap right now, so.... guess we'll never know!
This past week I went back and reread an article from the Ensign in February of 2007. It was all about the parable of the Good Samaritan, and what the symbolism of it is. It talks about the symbolism of Adam falling, and Christ being the one who rescues us all. It's a really great read, and I'd encourage anyone who hasn't read it to go take a look! It definitely explains things better than I will! The article is linked above.
Have a wonderful week!
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