It snowed on Monday, and Brooke and I took some time to go play together in the backyard in the morning. While we were out the neighbors saw us out the window and got really excited, and I saw them pulling on snow clothes so I figured they'd come bursting out into the back yard any second. However, when I left for work they'd shoveled our driveway! Thanks Carruths! I hope my kids love helping others that much! Brooke really liked that idea, so she decided to finish shoveling our front walk way!
It's started to become Brooke's and my bedtime ritual to have her ride on my back everywhere we go, including from one side of her room to the other. Winry really liked this, and decided to take her moosie pacifier around on her back too! Ok, maybe I really put it there.
Also, I think somewhere in here was when my phone died. I was using it and the screen froze, so I held the power button and turned it off, and it never turned back on. This meant I was back to my previous phone, and without a SIM card, so I was WiFi only... Also, you'll probably be able to tell what pictures I took with that phone because they just don't look as nice.
Wednesday we had dentist appointments, and we brought Brooke and Winry along. The dentist looked in Brooke's mouth and counted her teeth, and we even set up her own appointment for May! She's really excited. Also, they had a huge stuffed tooth brush in the kids waiting area, so she quickly brushed her teeth before going back.
On Thursday the kids had to get flu shots, and they did great. Brooke didn't cry at all, and she was very excited to go to the doctor. We've been doing checkups and giving each other flu shots for a month or more! Winry cried when we laid her down before anything happened, so she did as good as expected. Also on Thursday my new phone came! Here it is! Also, it's an international phone, so it came with a UK charger... but it also came with an adapter and it works great!
Thursday was also our house-iversary! We've lived here for 4 years already!! Wow how the time has flown! In typical celebration fashion we got Japanese take out, and I like to branch out and try a new sushi each time. I'm slowly getting more adventurous. We got these salmon sushi this time, and I think this might be as far as I go, and in fact, I might step back to rolls for a while. It was fine, but I didn't like it as much. Also, one of these got a bunch of ginger on it or something, and I don't really like the taste of ginger... I'm still glad I tried it though! (P.S. it was smoked salmon, so this isn't actually raw)
Thursday night when we were getting ready for bed I was helping to keep Winry happy. I was blowing on her toes. She'd lift her feet up and wait for me, and once I blew on her toes she'd kick her legs down and kick me in the face. She LOVED it!!
On Friday Brooke decided she wanted to make some Thanksgiving turkey cookies for our next door neighbors! What a sweetie! We tried to take them over, but they weren't home when we went by, so we saved them to try again later. We ended up taking them over as soon as we got home from church today. She may have also eaten some in the process!
On Friday night after Brooke went to sleep we blew up a bunch of balloons for her birthday. We threw them all into her room. In the middle of the night we woke up to hearing her breathing really heavy/laughing with excitement over the monitor. Then she started to say "It's so exciting, it's so exciting!!" Fortunately she also went back to sleep on her own! She did tell us in the morning that she got up and kicked and kicked a balloon!
Saturday morning Brooke woke and came down the stairs to see PRESENTS!! First and foremost being her new, awesome bike! She even got to ride it around in the house a little.
Brooke really enjoyed opening presents, and I feel like this gif is a pretty good representation.
We let Brooke pick what she wanted to eat for all of her meals on her birthday to make it as special as possible. For breakfast, fruit loop pancakes! They were pretty good really, but the fruit loops get a little weird when cooked. Brooke really liked it, and that's what was most important. I liked them too, and I'm sure Monica loved them.
Brooke got a Sophia the first princess dress, as well as a book reader thing that can read the books it came with out loud. She was having a lot of fun with them all morning.
In the early afternoon we had a birthday party! It was Goldie and Bear themed! We made fruit loops necklaces, did a ring toss, played pin the bow on goldie, had macaroni and cheese sandwiches, played a fishing game, sang happy birthday, and had cake and ice cream. All very Goldie and Bear things! Thank you everyone who came, Brooke had a wonderful time!
Winry was also having a great time during the party, and even donned a party hat!
And here we all are as a family right before we went to dinner!
For dinner Brooke wanted mac and cheese, and picked to go to Panera bread. The food all comes with a baguette, and Brooke was really excited that Winry was eating a "bag-it." Brooke has been "teaching" Winry about bag-its a lot lately. This means that she says "I"m going to teach Winry about bag-it!", goes around a corner, then runs around right up to Winry and yells "BAG-IT" and then runs back behind the corner. Winry LOVES this.
Also Brooke kept getting "cold" in the restaurant and had to go over the the fireplace to get warm. She did this a lot.
You may have been wondering what the title of the post means. Well, it's finally story time. So Brooke has been calling Winry security for some time now. We're not sure where it's come from, but it's her nick name I guess. Sometime during dinner she decided to call me mystery and after dinner while we were walking to the car she decided that an appropriate nick name for Monica would be St. Nicholas. So we asked her what her nick name was, and she said "Krast-mit..." We were laughing so hard. We're guessing she was shooting for Christmas, but that's not what she said.
Today Jelly took full advantage of all of the tissue paper from the presents. She tried to dig in and sleep in the middle of it all, but knocked all of the paper above her off the table. I wanted to clean up the tissue... but... nap time.
Also, today at church I set Winry down and she escaped! She crawled straight over to another family we're friends with, and quickly found the phone! What a sneak!
This past week being Brooke's birthday I've been thinking a bunch about how grateful I am to have her! She is such a wonderful little girl! I love her so much! I'm so grateful for how helpful she always is, and how much fun we always have together. I'm grateful to be, in her own words from today, her "best friend!" I love her so much, and as sad as it is to see her grow up, I am so excited to watch her continue to grow and develop and can't wait to see where life takes her! Thank you for being so wonderful Brooke! I love you most, I love you more!
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