Brooke and Winry continue to be best friends, and Brooke still wants to help Winry with EVERYTHING! We even let Brooke feed Winry sometimes, and this past week Brooke took it upon herself to feed Winry breakfast. What a great sister! I took Monday off for some recovery with the family after my trip, and we just had to go out for a family activity. As we left we realized that we would need to get lunch while we were out, so we went to Mod Pizza. It's a build your own pizza place, and we had a great time! Also, Brooke took a nap in the car on the way out, so no wonder we had such a great time!
Our real destination was the Butterfly Pavilion, which was approximately across the street. Winry and Brooke got a chance to be twin butterflies while we were heading in.
And it took some coaxing, but I got Brooke to be spider food as well. The coaxing wasn't because it was scary, it was because Brooke wanted to play on the computer next to this picture spot instead. But for you, fine blog readers, I persisted until I prevailed. They also have an "outdoor" area with lots of plants and butterflies EVERYWHERE! That was pretty cool, and you basically get butterflies landing on you whether you want it or not. That was pretty cool, except we couldn't see the turtle because he was in his house, so Brooke cried because she was super excited to see him. We all had a lot of fun though, and that was Brooke's first choice of place to go for the day.
On Wednesday when I got home from work we decided to go running. Our jogging stroller had a flat tire I had to patch before we could leave. 5 holes... yup... guess I went through a thorn garden and didn't notice. Anyway, the patches didn't actually completely fix it, but it at least stays inflated for an hour or more, so that's good enough for a run! Brooke was pretty tired when we went on our run, so when we got home she was asleep. Also, she just HAD to wear Monica's socks all day!
Friday was the long anticipated leaf pile day, so as soon as I got home from work we headed into the backyard for that! I raked up a huge leaf pile, and then Brooke and I jumped in over and over! Brooke also wanted to slide on the leaves, which you can see below!
I got a good video of Brooke jumping into the leaves, and Monica came out to play with us too once our leaf fight started! I'm pretty sure Brooke won.
Winry even came out to join us. You know what they say, a family that rakes together, jumps in leaves together...etc.
Anyway, Winry has continued her crawling ways, and recently has fallen in love with our Norwex sweeper mop thing. She loves to chase it around while Monica cleans the floors. Monica informed me that my video is actually a pretty substandard mop chase, so maybe one day I'll get to see the real deal.
Saturday was our ward Trunk or Treat, and we showed up in style! Brooke really wanted to be Moana, and she picked everyone else's costume too. I'm Maui, Winry is Hei Hei, and Monica is
Te Fiti. We all had a lot of fun at the activity, and we were even able to stay all the way to the trunk or treat part. I took Brooke and Winry on a long drive at about 3 pm to help them get a nap in so they could stay up extra late. It was still walking a fine line for them both, but we made it through without any major issues, and Brooke had an AMAZING time trick or treating! I'm really excited for Halloween.
Well, I think those are the highlights for us this past week. I hope everyone is doing well!
I love the costumes!!! Great job Monica (I’m guessing it was mostly her creativity)!!
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