We don't know the gender yet, not for another month and a half or so. Brooke is super excited though! Hopefully she'll handle it well. It was a little rough for her the first few days after we got the cat since she didn't get all of our attention, so hopefully that will be good preparation for having a new sibling in the mix!
This past week we were invited to a Harry Potter party by our friends' (Katie and David) roommate. It was very well done and we had a lot of fun. Everyone was in a house, and we all got a wand when we got there. If you ever left your wand behind you lost house points (poor Katie... she forgot her wand a bunch). We played games and had a trivia contest, and unfortunately Gryffindor barely snuck past us Slytherins for the win... :( (I was Slytherin with David, Monica was a Gryffindor).
One of the games we played was to make owls. Brooke got to judge which ones were the best, and after she sat on a chair with all her new pals!
There were some extra wands so Brooke got one too! She enjoyed casting spells and dueling (if you held out your want she'd smack it with hers over and over) all night long. She was practically the life of the party.
We of course dressed up for the party! We even scored big bonus points for looking so good! Brooke dressed up as a cat (Crookshanks) with ears and a tail even!
The next day we went to the Melting Pot because they have a really good deal going on this month, and it just so happens that Katie and David wanted to go too! We really don't seem them often enough, so it was great to get to see them 2 days in a row!
Brooke has lately started to love being wrapped in her blankie. She'll hand it to you and say "wrap, wrap, WRAP!!" Then I wrap her up as tight as I can and she tries to run off, but her legs cant move too far... It's so funny because she can't bend over very well either, but she loves to be wrapped up!
Naadam was also this past week. Naadam is a Mongolian holiday to celebrate the 3 manly sports. To celebrate we made huushuur! Here is the dough rolled out.
And here we are frying them up!
And finally time to eat! In the past we've gone traditional, but we decided to make it more our own this year and made taco huushuur! They were really good too!
And for dessert we had peach pie huushuur with glaze! They were super delicious!
Brooke has still been working on feeding herself. She's getting better and actually doesn't need help at all for some meals. But these meals typically end up looking like this! At least she's still trying and learning.
Monica took Brooke to the pool one day when I was at work. Monica typically will not put sunscreen on her legs to try to help them tan up. Brooke was sitting on the seat between Monica's legs while Monica put sunscreen on her. Apparently Brooke spent this time touching Monica's legs, and transferring her sunscreen over! This is how Monica's legs ended up looking that night!!
Well, it has been quite the week! We had a lot of fun, and are excited for the new year and all it will bring for us! I hope you all are doing fantastic as well.
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