Howdy Y'all! What a week. The kids started off the week by not having any school. Lucky them! I reached out and we were able to find a friend for everyone, so they were all very excited for Monday and to play with their friends. I did catch them in unity playing red light green light on the driveway. As parent involvement does, my observation of so many kids having fun together caused the game to immediately end and everyone go in different directions for a new game. But for a little they were playing together.
I dug out more space in the lawn for gardening, I don't remember if I put a picture of that in, but all that exposed dirt made the kids hunger to play in mud. I went out with them and ran the hose for a bit, muddying up the garden, and then I started spraying them with the hose. Now mind you, this started inadvertently as they got too close to where I was spraying the dirt and a strong breeze would blow the water into them, but eventually I was just spraying them with the hose. These are the same kids that will break down crying if it rains on them, but pressurized water from a hose? Hit me in the face with that...
It doesn't matter if I don't understand, because we had a great time. I picked Winry up from dance, and when we got home we just went straight back into the backyard and I started spraying everyone again.
Monica found this sling carrier that could help us getting Grayson around. I'll note that this isn't intended for daily use, but instead for our trip to Australia in June. And if I haven't mentioned that yet, surprise, we're going to Australia to visit my parents in June! Very exciting.
Here's little mud boy, with mud all over his eye! He wasn't aware that he had mud on his face!
Down by Grayson's preschool there are some longhorn cows, and this week while driving home they were up by the fence and there were some people feeding them grass, so Monica and Grayson stopped by the say hello and feed them too. That's pretty exciting stuff.
On Thursday evening, Monica's friends flew in for the weekend, so Friday morning I loaded the kids up in the car and we headed for Dallas to Michael and Oriah's house. We got there during school, so we had some time without cousins. The kids enjoyed saying hello to Biskit again, and jumping on the trampolines.
Monica and her friends had a super good time. She can write more about her girls weekend here if she'd like.
Grayson warmed up to Biskit pretty quick and really liked playing with him. He was nervous to try to take a toy from Biskit if he had it in his mouth, but if he'd drop them or someone would hand them to Grayson he loved to throw them, including down the stairs. And Biskit was always willing to play.
On Friday night my kids joined Cameron and William at run club. The kids had a good warm up, and then got to work at three different things. Sprints and staying in your lane, passing the baton which Brooke and Winry teamed up on. This one really took me back to running track in high school. I told the girls that I should try to find some of my old batons from when I was a kid.
And they got to do long jump, which of course was my main event. I really wanted to go give it a try with them, but I didn't. One, because I didn't want to be the only adult jumping in. And two, because my knee wasn't feeling great (I think it was the driving), so I thought it probably was better not to. Also, it was really hot, and I was sweaty...
On Friday night Oriah and were enjoying a good conversation when we overheard what sounded like arguing or fighting, but it was muffled. We thought it might be kids, but seemed like it was coming from outside, so we stopped worrying about it. Right before we were going to head off for bed there was a loud bang on the door and someone yelled "Police!" We thought it was some kids playing a prank, and when Oriah looked through the peep hole she didn't see anyone, but then she looked out the front window and, yup, it was the police. We went out with our hands up, and it turns out the yelling we heard turned into a 911 call, and the GPS location happened to land at Oriah's house, so that's where they came.
On Saturday we spent all day playing with cousins. I apparently didn't get any pictures of us at Cameron's baseball practice in the morning, but we had a snack while we watched him play, and then played on the playgrounds at the park. It was a pretty big park, and we walked over to a second playground for a little before coming back to watch the end of practice. It was pretty awesome and Cameron did an amazing job. He plays first base, which is a really important position, and his dream is to have to reach so far to catch a ball that he does the splits to stay on base, and get someone out. He can do the splits part, just needs that perfect throw!
The kids did so many fun things. Trampolines are a new things for my kids, so I guess that's why I've got so many pictures of that, but here they are playing crack the egg!
We even pulled out the bounce house. I guess the kids really like bouncing. :)
Here's Grayson's sleeping arrangements. He wanted to sleep on the couch instead of a bed and wedged himself in between all kinds of pillows and stuffed animals and stuff. Pretty cute all cozied in there.
Michael and Oriah's kids all have hover boards, and ride them all around the house. I wish I had been able to catch a video of that. However, they have these little car attachment things and were riding them around and giving Grayson a ride. They had a whole lot of fun until the batteries die.
Good news about the battery dying though, it gave us time to make some Buc-ees for Nailed it on our family call.
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