A Flurry of Activity

Well, I got my pictures for the blog just a little too early last week, because Sunday afternoon, Brooke made banana bread.  I think Grayson helped her as well, but when I say Brooke made it, I mean Brooke had the kitchen to herself.  She wasn't sure how to grease a pan, so I helped her with that and putting things in and out of the oven, but she did everything else!  And it was delicious!  Great job Brooke!

Grayson had a Dr. Seuss day for... national reading week, or something like that.  Anyway, they had a fun thing each day and a Dr. Seuss book that went along with it.  One day they all got to bring stuffed animals to school and Grayson stole center stage!

Early garden harvest!  That seems pretty crazy.  I'm not gonna lie, when I go outside I think it's May-ish, not early March.  We're still having the occasional "cold" day with a high under 60, but generally it feels like spring, and into spring enough that I'm starting to get worried about the heat of summer.  Back to the garden, look at all those carrot colors!  That's so awesome.  And they all tasted great.

Jelly followed me into my closet one day after my run and plopped herself down on my pile of dirty running clothes.  She started rolling around in them, and got her paw inside my shirt and started tangling herself in it.  What bliss!

Thursday was crazy hair day and spirit shirt day.  LOOK AT THAT HAIR! Perfection!

Jelly has been loving the weather and trying to get outside every day.  Fortunately, the weather has been nice and we've all wanted to go out with her.  Brooke carried her in one day, and she said it was her first time picking Jelly up!  Good job!

Monica and Grayson found themselves at a duck pond this past week.  It's actually right next to the library, and was with a walking group Monica has been going to.  Ever since, Grayson has been asking to go back and walk around the pond again.

And here's Grayson with the Weeks boys riding the train outside the library!  Everyone was having a great time.

Grayson had a dentist appointment.  He did an awesome job, and it was also his first time getting x-rays.  He took care of that unicorn the whole time too.  Good thing he was there to help the dentist's office out.  

We finally got a shredder this past week, which means that Monica and Grayson started working through shredding our decade long backlog.  Shred baby shred!  And Grayson loved it, especially the expired credit cards.

Grayson wanted to play some t ball, and set up a nice stack of buckets and stuff to try to hit over with the ball.  He knocked it over his very first swing, so I started a video, and it would appear knocking everything over is a little harder than it first appeared.

The girls keep leaving their socks around the house, but Jelly see's that as an opportunity.  She's just always looking for something with a... let's say strong scent.

Brooke had her first competition on Saturday.  We didn't really know what to expect, so just Monica took her.  It was probably for the best because they ended up staying for like 5 hours so that Brooke could watch the solos, etc.  So Brooke had an absolute blast, and Grayson would NOT have been able to handle that.  As for Brooke's performance, she had two dances.  One was to the Hercules song that she did a few weeks ago.

And the other one was one I hadn't seen before.  It's got some cool lifts and stuff in it.  Fortunately, she's got 2 more competitions, so I should still have a chance to catch it live.

Here's her team together after their dance with their awesome ribbon.  They got gold for their dances, which has something to do with how well they did with scoring or something (I don't know how the judging works yet...).

As Jelly's been wanting to go out every day, we don't always have someone to hold the leash.  Meaning, the kids usually make me play with them, so we need to attach her leash to something, so I printed a clip to attach it to the back of a chair.  This works alright for now, but she can pull over the chair if she tries (and she has already), so it's not a perfect long term solution...

And poor buddy Grayson is getting sick again... :(  He was feeling sick Saturday, which is another good reason for us to have not gone to Brooke's competition.  On Sunday I stayed home from church with him, and even didn't have other meetings after church.  It was pretty crazy having a not busy Sunday.  First in a long time.  Anyway, while I was hanging out with Grayson he got pretty tired and fell asleep on the couch.  I hope he feels better soon, poor buddy just finished his last round of antibiotics!

As I get to the end of this I realized that Winry isn't in any of these pictures... Fear not, google is here to save the day, as it's giving me a "They Grow up so Fast" slideshow of Winry right now!  And oh my goodness, she is SOOOOO cute!!!