This past week Winry went to visit Dr. Brooke! Technically Winry wasn't sick at this point, or at least I don't think she was. But still, Brooke is a great vet, and sometimes that skill also extends to humans! To be honest, I think it's a lot of fun when Brooke plays doctor!
I probably haven't mentioned this, but Brooke wants to be Moana for Halloween, and her costume came this past week! She was so excited she had to wear it, and she's worn the grass skirt that came with it a few times, and she wears her necklace every day!
Tuesday Brooke had preschool again, and this weeks lesson was focused on B, and ironically, taught by Baylee! (uhhhh....) Monica said Brooke was super great and listened the whole time and participated.
Winry however tried to slip under the couch for some alone time! Fortunately Monica caught her before she escaped!
On Tuesday Monica had a real hard time on the diet we were on (not because of the food, because of the time commitment!), so we decided to cancel and have pizza for dinner. To be honest, I think the diet is a very healthy way to eat and I'm sure it would help, but it was a lot more work than we expected, and we were not prepared for that. Monica basically spent all day cooking or prepping food, etc. so we decided now was not a great time, but that it was a great time for pizza!
That night we taught Brooke how to hula dance! Winry loves it when Brooke dances in front of her and will just stare with a huge grin on her face or smile! I'm so glad Winry and Brooke love each other so much! I think Brooke can cheer Winry up better than Monica and I at times!
On Wednesday for preschool enrichment Brooke and Eden headed to the butterfly pavilion. Monica said it was really cool, and everyone had a great time. There was a wind tube thing, and you could put little dragonflies into the bottom and then they blew out the top. Monica said Brooke could have stayed here all day.
In another place they held something that looked a lot like a worm. I think Monica said those things actually grow into beetles. I have no clue what it is... but Brooke held it!
Winry and Royal had fun chilling on the floor in the kid playground area while everyone explored. They did a great job keeping each other company.
On Wednesday my blog book arrived! This book is just the blog from 2015. This was my surprise project from a few weeks ago, in case any of you remember me mentioning that.
I spent a bunch of time looking online at sites that converted blogs to books, but I didn't like the end formatting of any of them. They either did weird things like thumbnail all the pictures down the side of the page, or just didn't let you control the output well enough. So I wrote a python script that would crawl my blog and download my blog articles and pictures and write them all into a LaTeX file. LaTeX was a program I used in college, and you use it for laying out papers, etc. So I set up LaTeX to output the blog post information in a way that fit the publishers requirements, and resized the pictures to try to minimize pages but still have good sized pictures. Here's what the book looks like on the inside!
And that cover? I made a collage of all the pictures I took in the year (2015) to put on the cover. I'm very happy with the results, so I ordered a book for 2016 and 2017 this past week as well. They should be here in about 2 weeks!
Winry has started to like books a lot. We have a bunch of books that are "that's not my ..." style, and the animals in them all have something feelable. Things like a furry spot, or a rough spot, or a bumpy spot. She loves to feel those books. Brooke got a book called Stack the Cats from the library, and Winry LOVES to look at that one, even though there's nothing to feel! Also, when she was sitting there she just totally zoned out, that's what I was really taking a picture of.
Friday morning was full of Brooke giving Winry raspberries! On Friday we didn't have anything to make a sandwich with, which ended up nice because everyone came to work for a picnic! Here's Winry loving her first tastes of peanut butter and jelly. Brooke and I also ran to those bushes in the background several times.
And Winry got up to crawl! She did't actually crawl, but she's getting close. She gets up on her hands and knees all the time!
My dad also happened to be in town and dropped some stuff off at our house. There was some great school work from when I was a kid in there. This beauty was from second grade (because I recognize my teachers name). This was when I was really good at spelling my siblings names. Names like tisin (Tyson), cilast (Celeste), jirosha (Jerusha), niki, oria (Oriah), Spencer and cat! Spelling pro!
Friday night was the worst of Winry's stuffy nose, and she just couldn't sleep! Poor little girl, if she sucked on her pacifier she couldn't breathe, so instead she'd just cry. I think I maybe slept for 4.5 hours that night, and I know I was in her room holding and rocking her for at least 2 hours straight at one point. Saturday morning Monica wanted to go the Relief Society temple trip, so what do you do with two kids and little sleep? Go running! The run got cut short when Winry started crying, so we turned around and I had to bounce the stroller the whole way back to keep her happy. We started from a park so we could go play for a while after our run. Brooke and Winry love swinging with each other!
Also on Saturday Jelly laid on Brooke's lap for a while and got pet! I think Jelly is started to trust Brooke a lot more and is more comfortable around here, and Brooke has done AMAZING with Jelly lately. She loves to pet her and scratch her back!
After the BYU football game where we beat #6 Wisconsin (WOO HOO!!!!!) we wanted to take a family picture in our BYU shirts, and Brooke got the phone and wanted to take pictures. I really liked this one she took of herself with Kalani!
And here we all are together as a family. Brooke did not take this one (you can tell because there isn't a finger partly over the lens.
Also on Saturday Brooke and I built this castle!
Also on Saturday night I switched out our faucet on our kitchen sink! Here's the new one. My dad also dropped this off when he stopped by. My parents got a new faucet because they thought theirs leaked, but when they went to switch it the tubes were just loose! Don't worry, their new one is still nicer than this.
And to help you remember here's our old one. I forgot to take a before picture, but luckily we dye Easter eggs, and it was incidentally in the background!
Well, I think that catches you all up! Have a great week!
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