Last Sunday I pulled out some of my Legos for the girls to play with. Brooke had been really interested in them lateley. The blocks were a little much for the girls. They were too hard to push together and pull apart. However, the bag of animals and minifigures was a HUGE hit! Brooke and Winry had a great time playing with them all and did a wonderful job sharing together.
But for now we'll rewind back to the start of the week. Brooke's got a new book memorized. Shocking, I know. This time it's Dinner at the Panda Palace, and Winry loves to hear it too!
On Tuesday Brooke had gymnastics. I could be wrong, but it seemed like she was doing better this week and more comfortable trying things. Just look at her on these beams! She did end up coming home early though because she was really tired and started crying a few times and running over to Monica. So eventually Monica asked if she just wanted to go home, and Brooke said yes. She still had a great time, and we're definitely doing a nap this upcoming Tuesday.
On Wednesday, Jessica came over to go ministering with Monica and brought Brooke a birthday present! Brooke was beyond excited when she found her Santa flamingo! She also got a cool rainbow kitty book bag and some books, including a cool one with flashlight things that you move around to illuminate the page and find things. Really cool gifts! Thanks Jessica! You're the best.
On Wednesday, Monica had to jump her car in the evening to get around, but it seemed to work fine for the rest of the night. However, the next morning it was dead again... I guess it's not too surprising since Luna is just hitting 10 years old and very possibly has it's original battery. We've had the car for 4 years and never replaced the battery. Anyway, after another jump on Thursday afternoon we headed to Advanced Auto Parts and bought a new battery which came with free installation!
It would have been like a 10 minute process, but one of our battery terminals was completely corroded to the connector... so it took a little longer to get everything back up and running. The girls came and sat in the front with Monica and they all had a wonderful time listening to music while dad stood out in the cold wind...
On Friday morning, Brooke asked if she could change Winry's diaper, and did a perfect job! That means Brooke changed her first diaper just 24 years younger than I did! Basically the same. She's changed it at least one more time since then, and Winry loves it too. Winry is perfectly behaved for Brooke, whereas for Monica and I she'll sometimes be rolling all around and trying to get up and run away. This is definitely much better!
Friday was also the SEAKR craft fair, and Monica was going to have a Norwex booth, so I worked from home in the morning before I took over watching the kids while she went in. Turns out snack time is now an under the table experience. This was the first I'd seen of it, but Monica made it seem old hat.
I took the girls to Brooke's dance class, and Winry just wanted to go around and meet everyone. She came over to this family in the class after Brooke's and helped the girl sitting on the floor with her shoes! She was being super social, which is a quite different experience than we've had with Brooke so far. I got a video of Brooke doing some tumbling stuff in class, and also got to see her practice for her winter showcase. I didn't take a video of the dance because I want to keep the anticipation building!
After dance class, we went to see how Monica was doing, and things went well for her! She had 4 or 5 people sign up saying they were interested to learn more, and also had 5 sales! So the fair was pretty great! After saying "hi" we went to Noodles and Company for lunch, and then to the park near my work to play. The girls had a great time. Winry hung from a bar all by herself, which I didn't know she could do. She also climbed up this rock climbing wall like thing. We had a great time until it was time to leave. Monica let me know when she was ready to meet us and swap so I could go back to work. We were well past Winry's nap time (like... 2 hours past) and Winry had just walked into a rope and fallen over and started crying, so I picked her up and we were heading to meet Monica. Brooke tried to run away, so I had to hold her hand, and then she kept trying to run away while I was holding on and saying her arm hurt. This quickly turned into two crying/screaming children which made for a fun walk back to the car. Everyone took a nap when they got home!!
Friday I headed straight to Kurosawa "on the way home" (it's 10 minutes past home) to pick up dinner. It was our house-iversary!! We've been in our house for 5 years! And every year we get Japanese food. The night we moved in we drove out in a snowstorm and got Japanese food to bring back home, so now it's a tradition! (Also, both of the kids were really grumpy about this picture happening!)
Since Brooke's birthday is on a Sunday we let her pick a place for dinner for Saturday night, which took us all to Panera!
Here's the soon to be Birthday girl with her mom!
This morning Brooke got straight into present opening while her requested breakfast, pumpkin chocolate chip pancakes) was being cooked! I gave her a camera of her very own. Monica gave her a "pink guitar" which she's been asking for for several months and immediately started to play! And Winry gave her a Polly Pocket house! She and Winry have been playing and having a great time all day!
Today for church, Brooke picked to wear their new matching Christmas dresses! They looked SO cute, and lots of people at church commented how wonderful they looked.
Brooke took cupcakes to church for her primary class, and they were Cookies and Cream and SUPER yummy! Also, good news for next week, we haven't had cake or anything yet, so expect more birthday to come! Brooke has requested a strawberry banana cake, so Monica has been trying to figure that out. That's probably a little easier than last years strawberry lemonade cake at least.
Also, Brooke has been enjoying talking with family and has had a lot of fun talking on the phone with everyone. Thanks for your calls!!
Have a wonderful week, and we'll have some wonderful cake!
No comments:
Post a Comment