I go through Monica's pictures each week to see if there's anything I need to grab for the blog, and I found this. I really don't know what the story is, but maybe Monica will add it here => (Interesting because Alex was when I took this! Brooke fell asleep while we were out running.... All of us were out running...) when she proof reads this post.
The time finally came this past week for Winry to start eating solids! She's been watching us closely as we've been eating dinner, etc. the past few weeks, so we figured we'd let her have a try. We started with rice cereal, but she was pretty fussy the two nights we gave her that so we don't think it goes well with her stomach. We've been doing bananas for the past few days since and she's been LOVING it! I think we're on to a new food tomorrow, but I don't know if/what we picked yet.
Also from the archives of Monica comes this picture of Winry with a pony tail sticking straight up out of her head! This has not become a daily thing, but more of an experiment I would guess as it wasn't like this when I got home and I haven't seen it since.
We've spent a bunch of time this past week getting Brooke's new room ready! Originally the plan was to wait until the basement is finished, but since the basement is going super slow (I just never seem to have time to get down there) we moved a bunch of stuff into our room and into the garage and got Brooke moved in! Tonight is her first night sleeping in there, and it will be Winry's first night in her own room too! Now she might not wake us up all night long kicking down on her mattress! One can hope, right? Anyway, Brooke's been loving her new room and I think it's great for her to have some space to play. We're going flamingo style in her room, and Brooke is very excited. Also, I know the title made it seem like you'd get to see more of her room... I'll try to remember to get some pictures of it for next week :).
Jelly even helped us get everything ready by doing things like checking the stability of Brooke's new dresser by jumping on and off of it over and over. She love's to lay on Brooke's dresser!
This past week when I was getting ready for work one morning I heard some loud talking outside and then a bunch of bangs. Turns out the SWAT team was raiding a neighbor's house. We looked to see if we could find a police report about it, but nothing has really come out yet. We're guessing it was a drug house, but hopefully some information is released soon! Anyway, that was a little bit of a surprise!
On Friday afternoon we went to Costco and it was samples galore! The best one you ask? Definitely the Octopus Salad! Ok, not really... I couldn't believe this was 1) a product at Costco 2) a sample. I did try a piece, and I thought it was gross. It wasn't actually the octopus though (or at least I think) but instead whatever the liquid that turned it into a "salad" that I didn't like.
Saturday morning we headed to the zoo! Monica's friend Katie met us there too! We had a lot of fun. I was trying to get a picture of the Okapi with it's tongue out. They have tongues like giraffes, but every picture I took had not tongue... Dang.
While there it eventually become time for Winry to eat, and we happened to be by the "how far can you jump" spot. Brooke had a great time hopping across over and over! I gave it a try a few times and I'm still just shy of 9 feet... I'll get it some day though. It was interesting to see all the people that stopped by and tried it out. It was mostly kids, but you'd have the occasional parent who wanted to give it a try, just to chicken out at the start line and just jump a foot or two and pretend like they were playing with their kid. Not so random parent, I saw the look of determination in your eye when you walked up to the line!
Anyway, we had a lot of fun jumping, and then this parade of animals came by! I have never seen these animal costumes before, but they were really cool! I don't know if it's a traveling thing or if they'll be at our zoo to stay. They walked past us and a little later we caught up to them stopped in an opening for people to take pictures with them. I asked Brooke, but she said she didn't want to.
The animals above stopped at the entrance to the monkeys, so we made a loop through. The monkeys are pretty cool right now because the orangutans and the gorillas both have babies.
We eventually got to the flamingos, which at some point became Brooke's favorite animal, and so we took a picture with them! This was basically the last thing we stopped to see. We also saw the grizzly bear on our way out of the zoo, and they were the best they've ever been! They were both out walking around the whole time we were there! All in all everyone had a fantastic zoo day, and I think we'll have to go again soon!
There was a really bad hail storm this past week. It missed both the building I work in and our house, so Monica and I didn't see it but I heard up to tennis ball size hail. The sister missionaries in our ward were not as lucky as we were... Their car has a bunch of dents, and the windshield had to be fixed! They said one of the elder's cars actually got a hole all the way through it, and I saw some pictures of cars at work who's back windows got punched all the way through! It was a fierce storm!
This morning we went on a family walk over to the park. We were going to get everyone out, but when we got there |Winry seemed like she was falling asleep, so she stayed in the stroller and Monica pushed her around while I chased Brooke all around. We had a blast, and I guess Brooke's new thing is jumping.
Church today was great! In priesthood we were talking about Lehi's dream, and I really liked Brother Bell's comment about likening the scriptures to ourselves. He said that we typically do a good job of likening the scriptures of prophets and heroes doing great things to ourselves, but do we ever liken the scriptures of Laman and Lemuel murmuring to ourselves? How often do we act like the "wicked" in the scriptures? Do we try to learn from their mistakes, do we look for ways we can avoid the same pit falls that they stumbled into? I'll be honest, I haven't had much time to think about it yet, but I thought it was a good insight into trying to get more out of scripture study. I know the scriptures are the word of God, and that we can truly come to know Him and Jesus Christ through sincere study of the scriptures. I encourage everyone to study daily, and to liken the scriptures to your life in order to gain a deeper understanding of the messages being taught. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
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