Going back to last Sunday, which was Brooke's actual birthday, we finished off the day with some playing in the back yard. I gave Brooke a camera for her birthday, and she was crazy about it. She took over 500 pictures the first day! In fact, while we were in the back yard, she was taking pictures of everything! Winry joined us outside and had a blast on the trampoline! The swing and trampoline both got some good use this last week as the weather was pretty warm through the first half of the week.
On Sunday night after dinner we sang happy birthday and had cake and ice cream of course! Brooke picked a strawberry banana cake! I really like that she is willing to pick creatively (last year we had strawberry lemonade!). Monica made banana and strawberry bread, and we layered the breads in the cake. It was very good!
And here we are looking cute and chillin on a curb outside the church!
And Winry was just nom-ing a Belvita cracker and having a wonderful time! What a cutie! Also, when did she get SO BIG!?
We ended up playing in the backyard until pretty late one night. We turned on the lights in the backyard, which cover the yard pretty well, but our fireplace sticks out on the side of our house and blocks the light from getting to the trampoline. So we brought out a flashlight to keep jumping until dinner was ready.
On Tuesday we finally raked up and bagged all our leaves! Brooke was really excited to sit on the bag of leaves. She remembers that very well from last year! Fortunately we had enough time before gymnastics to clean up and sit on the bag!
Last week Brooke had a hard time at gymnastics, so this week we made sure she took a nap before we headed over. In fact, she woke up not much before. Basically just long enough to sit on the bag (Winry and I cleaned up the leaves). We thought that would help gymnastics go better. She had a great time during warm ups, and even did this high balance beam! However, when she finished she came over crying. I held her for a little and she decided she wanted to go do stuff again. I told her she could skip the balance beam if she didn't want to do it. She worked her way through a bunch of things, and when she got to the balance beam she did it again, and then came over again. She said she really wanted to do it, so not exactly sure what was wrong, but she decided at that point she was ready to head home. Not 100% sure what's going on with gymnastics because she loves it half the time and cries half the time, but it doesn't seem like it's for her.
On Wednesday morning, the girls opened Brooke's gift from Eden (her friend that moved to AZ a couple months ago), and in it Brooke got a flamingo and a bunch of cute hair clips. The girls have been wild about these all week! I mean, just look! Winry has like 5 in her hair.
And Brooke just stuck as many into her dolls hair as she could fit! They've had to have one every day, and usually their stuffed animals and dolls have had to have some too!
Brooke is definitely a gift giver, and gifts is probably her biggest love language. So with her birthday happening she got REALLY into the gift giving, and while I was at work she made AND wrapped (on her own) a gift for me! It was a wonderful picture she colored.
Winry has been working on her dance moves this past week. She got out the laptop and was having a great time. Monica said she was doing a different dance for each song, and you can see several of them in the videos! There was also some silly tickle time while getting into the car. Monica was trying to get Winry to turn around the right way in her car seat so the tickling began, and Winry was just laughing SO hard! And as soon as it stopped, she'd throw her head back to get tickled again!
There's a little horse you can ride at King Soopers, and Winry rode it for the first time this past week!
It snowed on Friday and so we HAD to play in the back yard that night. We threw a bunch of snow balls, and the snow was actually really good for snow balls this time! We also did some circle sledding, and Brooke even pulled Winry for a loop or two! There were a few snow angels as well, and Jelly even escaped outside! She wouldn't go in the snow though, and was trying to avoid me and Monica catching her, so she kept running back and forth next to the house. We got her though.
On Saturday morning, we headed to the theater to watch Frozen 2! It was both Brooke and Winry's first movie in a theater, and they both loved it! All of the kids did! Here's everyone dressed up as either Anna or Elsa before we headed in.
Winry was maybe a little small for her seat, but she didn't really seem to mind being folded in half that much and sat in her seat for at least half of the movie. That was also the half of the movie she had snacks to eat.
After the movie, everyone came over to our house for presents, sang happy birthday and then had cupcakes as was shown in the first picture. Look at that! Getting happy birthday and cake a full 6 days apart! What a lucky little girl.
And on Saturday night Monica and I went to see GENTRI at the PACE center, which is the local theater here in Parker. The show was great, and it was Christmas music. They were starting off their Christmas tour in Parker this year. We had a great time, and Winry slept in until close to 7 this morning, so it was even OK that we were out late! (You may not think this is much of a miracle, but for the last few weeks, she has been waking up before 5 almost every day!!)
That's everything for this week. Have a wonderful week ahead, and a Happy Thanksgiving!
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