We'll kick things off with all of us ready to start trick or treating! We were Phineas and Ferb characters this year. Monica was Phineas, I was Ferb, Brooke was Candace, Winry was Dr. Doofenschmirtz, and Grayson was Perry the platypus. We're looking SOOOO good!
Here's a moment from preschool. It looks like they had a balloon party, and you know that Grayson's always gotta go to that! I think the real highlight is the video they sent where you hear a teacher tell a kid off camera that we only hit the balloons!
At work, we're moving to a new space in the WeWork that we're in, and it's smaller than our old one, so my company was getting rid of the extra desks and monitors. Connor came down with me to help me move stuff into my van. I was going to get a desk and monitor, however, the monitors were locked in the new space my key wouldn't get into, so I had to settle for getting a desk. I actually grabbed another guys desk too, and next week when we're all back in the office we'll grab two monitors and then swap a desk for a monitor up at my place while he's driving back to Dallas.
I feel like poor Grayson has been hurting his back a bunch lately! Specifically, this time he somehow tipped the chair he was on (if you've seen him on a chair around a table it doesn't take much imagination to see how this might have happened) and landed his back straight on the edge of another chair, or maybe on the chair he toppled. Ouch! Poor guy. I hope he can be a bit more careful.
We had our ward trunk or treat on Wednesday night. They had some games set up for the kids to play, with the big draw being donuts on a string. Who wouldn't have a hankering for a donut right before dinner?
One person who for sure needed to get in on the donut action was Grayson. This kid is all donut and no dinner!
After dinner we headed to our car to hand out candy. I already shared a picture of us in our costumes at the start of this, and the lighting was better on Halloween too, so here I'll just share a picture of our trunk decorated like Phineas and Ferb's backyard, with our Candy Passer-outer 3000!
Update on that lizard story, I guess we had more than one lizard in our house, and this one hadn't been found by Jelly! I was able to eventually get it trapped under a big tupperware. Honestly, we all wanted to keep the little guy instead of throwing him back outside, but in the end it was back out to the garden for him.
Grayson had a costume parade for preschool on Thursday.
Thursday was also Grayson and Winry's last day of volleyball. They got new shirts, and Grayson was even wearing his Spike Frog volleyball shirt that day, so he just threw the second one on over it.
When we got home, Monica had made a cool Halloween dinner while we were gone. We should leave her alone in the evenings more often.
On Friday night, we had a great time trick-or-treating. While wandering our neighborhood, we found this garbage can... I can't imagine this was meant to be a decoration, and I'm a little curious how exactly they burned up their garbage can like this... You can also see a burnt spot in the grass back there closer by the fence. Whatever it was, it wasn't safe. Glad no one's house burned down.
Grayson really loves these big blow up pumpkins. He always asks us to drive that way so that we pass them when we're leaving the neighborhood. When he trick-or-treated at their house, he let them know, and they were so happy about it and told him to make sure he gave them a hug on his way out!
Saturday morning was Brooke's last day of volleyball and a volleyball tournament. It was a lot of fun, and very exciting. Sadly, they ended up losing their first two matches and were done, but the games were really close, and Brooke had so much fun.
Here she is with her team and coach. I really liked her coach and hope that Brooke can be on her team again in the future.
After the volleyball tournament was over, we went to the park to set up for Grayson's birthday party. One of the games we played was a dragon egg hunt. Each egg held a clue to the next egg that the kids needed to find, and each egg held a surprise for the kids to put in their take home bag.
It was a little bit windy while we were singing happy birthday, well, actually, it was windy the whole time. I tried to block the candle, and it worked for a while, but the wind changed directions on me right as it was time to blow out the candle, and I didn't quite figure out from which direction in time. Good news, Grayson didn't actually care.
And then Saturday evening we had a fall fiesta put on by the stake! What a full day Saturday was. There were tacos, sports out on the field, rain, and even a dance at the fiesta.
That night I was trying to help Grayson get on pajamas and somehow got them on my leg! He thought this was SO funny.
At church I saw Mia come walking by and lured her over with my phone. Babies sure like seeing themselves on phones! She stayed to hang out for a few minutes before squirming down and running away. Tearing up my heart!
Brooke, Winry and I played volleyball in the backyard for much of the afternoon. Grayson came out with us, and sat on the swing eating cheese balls. Just your standard 5 year old afternoon.
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